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Abqaiq
Abqaiq (also Buqayq, Arabic: بقيق buqayq, meaning "father of the sand flies") is a small city in the interior of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia located in the desert southwest of the Dhahran-Dammam-Khobar metropolitan area. Built in the 1940s by the national oil company Saudi Aramco, Abqaiq is predominantly an industrial oil-company town with a population of approximately 1,950 in 2005.
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