Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...

does not have any permanent rivers, but does have numerous

wadi Wadi ( ar, وَادِي, wādī), alternatively ''wād'' ( ar, وَاد), North African Arabic Oued, is the Arabic term traditionally referring to a valley. In some instances, it may refer to a wet (ephemeral) riverbed that contains water ...

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valley A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams ove ...

s) which are riverbeds that are either permanently or intermittently dry. This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.

Red Sea

*Wadi Aful * Wadi as Surr * Wadi al-Hamd **Wadi al-Jizl **Wadi al-Aqiq * Wadi Rabigh *Wadi Fāţimah *Wadi Sa‘dīyah *Wadi al-Līth *Wadi Idam

Syrian Desert

*Wadi Saba *Wadi Fajr * Wadi as Sirhan * Wadi al-Mirah * Wadi Hamir *Wadi Ar'ar * Wadi al Batin

Najd

Wadi Al-Rummah Wadi Al-Rummah or ar-Rummah (ar: وادي الرمة) is one of the Arabian Peninsula's longest river valleys, at a length of almost . Now mostly dry and partly blocked by encroaching sand dunes, the wadi arises near Medina at Jibāl al Abyaḑ ( ...

** Wadi Al-Batin **Wadi al Jarīr *Wadi ar Rishā’ *

Wadi Hanifa Wadi Hanifa ( ar, وَادِي حَنِيْفَة, Wādī Ḥanīfah), historically known as Wadi al-Arad, is a ''wadi'' (valley) in the Najd region, Riyadh Province, in central Saudi Arabia. The valley runs for a length of from northwest to s ...

* Wadi ad-Dawasir ** Wadi Bishah ** Wadi Tathlith *Wadi Habawnah

References

*Rand McNally, ''The New International Atlas'', 1993. {{Authority control *

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