Ghubaira
حي غبيراء | |
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![]() Ghubaira, 2023 | |
Coordinates: 24°37′14″N 46°44′08″E / 24.62056°N 46.73556°E | |
Country | Saudi Arabia |
City | Riyadh |
Named for | Bani Ghabar |
Government | |
• Body | Baladiyah Al Batha |
Language | |
• Official | Arabic |
Ghubaira ( Arabic: حي غبيراء, romanized: ḥaī Ġubaīrāʾ), alternatively at times al-Ghubairah, [1] ( Arabic: حي الغبيرة, romanized: ḥaī Ġubaīrah) is a residential neighborhood in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, [2] located west of al-Khalidiyyah and south of al-Oud in the sub-municipality of al-Batha. [3] It is named after the tribe of Bani Ghabar that once lived in the area [4] and is today inhabited mostly by overseas Afro-Arabs and Pakistanis. [5] [6] [7] The current state of the neighborhood came into being during the reign of King Saud bin Abdulaziz in the 1950s and 1960s.