{"id":25629,"date":"2020-10-09T20:41:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T16:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=25629"},"modified":"2020-10-09T20:42:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T16:42:44","slug":"guinness-registers-al-ahsa-as-world-largest-oasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2020\/10\/09\/guinness-registers-al-ahsa-as-world-largest-oasis\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Guinness&#8221; Registers Al-Ahsa as World Largest Oasis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Al-Ahsa Oasis entered the Guinness World Records as the largest self-contained oasis in the world. According to \u201cGuinness\u201d website, the oasis includes more than 2.5 million palm trees feeding on a huge aquifer through 280 artesian springs and extending over an area of more than 85.4 square kilometers (32.9 square miles).<br><br>The Heritage Commission undertook the task of introducing the World Encyclopedia to Al-Ahsa Oasis, one of the sites of Saudi Arabia registered in the World Heritage List of &#8220;UNESCO,&#8221; along with the other registered sites; Al-Hijr in Al-Ula, Al-Turaif neighborhood in historic Ad Diriyah, historic Jeddah, and the sites of rock art in Jubbah and Shuaimis in Hail.<br><br>Al-Ahsa does not only enjoy a rich environmental heritage but also runs back deep in history and civilization, as it witnessed many civilizations and was a strategic communication bridge with the world. It includes many national heritage sites and the oldest human settlements dating back thousands of years. Its date-palm oasis is the largest palm oasis surrounded by sand in the world.<br><br>The &#8220;Guinness World Records&#8221; had registered the Maraya concert hall in Al-Ula this year as the largest building covered with mirrors in the world, in addition to several record-breaking Saudi achievements. Saudi Arabia has been placed second in the Arab world in the number of Guinness World Records.<br><br>SPA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Ahsa Oasis entered the Guinness World Records as the largest self-contained oasis in the world. According to \u201cGuinness\u201d website, the oasis includes more than 2.5 million palm trees feeding on a huge aquifer through 280 artesian springs and extending over an area of more than 85.4 square kilometers (32.9 square miles).The Heritage Commission undertook the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25631,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25629\/revisions\/25631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}