Governing Body: | Baladiyah Al Batha |
Postal Code Type: | PIN |
Native Name Lang: | ar |
Pushpin Map: | Saudi Arabia |
Demographics1 Info1: | Arabic |
Demographics1 Title1: | Official |
Demographics Type1: | Language |
Subdivision Type1: | , 24.62173563571554, 46.71983582227682 |
Official Name: | Ghubaira |
Native Name: | حي غبيراء |
Subdivision Name2: | Riyadh |
Subdivision Type2: | City |
Subdivision Name: | Saudi Arabia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Caption: | Ghubaira, 2023 |
Settlement Type: | Neighbourhood |
Other Name: | Ghubairah Arabic: حي الغبيرة |
Named For: | Bani Ghabar |
Ghubaira, alternatively at times al-Ghubairah,[1] 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.