Al-Ghat (Arabic: الغاط, DIN 31635 al-Ġāṭ), also Alghat, El-Ghat or Elghat, is a small town in Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia. It is located 230 kilometres (140 mi) by road northwest of Riyadh. As of the 2016 census it had a population of 16500 people.
A joint Saudi-Belgian Mission (2013–14) confirmed the archaeological, epigraphic and historic high potential of the Al-Ghat region.
The Riyadh Province (Arabic: منطقة الرياض Manṭiqat ar-Riyāḍ) is a province of Saudi Arabia, located in the geographic center of the country and the center of the Arabian Peninsula. It has an area of 404,240 km (156,080 sq mi) and with a 2022 population of 8,591,748, it is the second-largest region by area, behind the Eastern Province and the largest by population. The capital governorate of the province is the Riyadh Governorate and it is named after the capital of the kingdom, Riyadh, which is the most populous city in the region and the kingdom, with a little less than two-thirds of the population of the region residing within the city. The province was governed for nearly five decades by Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz from 1963 to 2011 shortly before he became the Crown Prince in 2012. Currently, it is governed by Prince Faisal bin Bandar.
Other populous cities in the region include Al Ghat, Dawadmi, Afif, Zulfi and Majma'ah. Approximately half of the region's area is desert, and it only borders other regions of the kingdom; it has no international borders. The region borders, clockwise from the north, the Eastern Province, Najran Province, ʽAsir Province, Mecca Province, Medina Province and the Al-Qassim Province. It is one of the seven regions of the kingdom that do not have a coastline.
Al Majma'ah (Arabic: المجمعة) is a city and a governorate in Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia. It is located at around 25°54′14″N 45°20′44″E / 25.90389°N 45.34556°E, and it is the capital of the Sudair region. The city has an area of 30,000 square kilometres. The population of the town is around 70,000, while the population of the governorate as a whole is 151,877 (2022). Al-Majma'ah Governorate borders the Eastern Province and Al-Qassim Province to the north, Thadig and Shaqra to the south, Rumah to the east, and Al-Ghat and Al-Zulfi to the west.
Founded in 1417 CE by an immigrant from the Al-shammari tribe, Al Majma'ah is considered part of the lands and homes of the Mutair tribe in Najd