Qurayyat, Saudi Arabia

Qurayyat (also Al Qurayat or Gurayat, Arabic: القريات) is a city located in Al Jawf Province, in northern Saudi Arabia, inside the King Salman Royal Natural Reserve.

It is located 30 km west of the city of Qurayyat, and is one of the largest land crossings in the Middle East, linking to Jordan and indirectly to Syria, Lebanon and Turkey, both for people coming for Hajj and Umrah as well as for cargo export and import.

Gurayat General Hospital is 350-bed secondary referral center with a catchment area of almost 400 km area with referrals from seven district general hospitals, each comprising 50 beds, and many primary health centres.

A & E is backed up by 20 bed fully equipped ICU, with a resident and specialist on duty round the clock, and PICU, NICU.

The city has a domestic airport (IATA: URY, ICAO: OEGT) about 10 km from the center.

It is located in the Kaf village next to the Mount Saidi castle from the east, which is a historic mansion built in 1338 AH by Sheikh Nawaf al-Shaalan before area subject of Saudi rule, a warship shape castle built of white sedimentary limestone with architectural style unique to the rocky area, and consists of a number of rooms for residential use and other management and some ammunition stores, with four towers at each corner is a square shape.