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The Line in Saudi Arabia is being marketed as a linear city just 200 metres wide made up of two long mirror-encased skyscrapers.
Saudi Arabia has revealed its intention to build what is expected to be one of the world’s largest airports, the latest development in the country’s bid to become a tourism hotspot.
Plans for the new King Salman International Airport, located in the capital of Riyadh, were announced by the kingdom’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the state-run Saudi Press Agency reported.
The airport, set to be built by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, would be built on the site of the city’s current airport, King Khalid International Airport.
It would cover an area of approximately 57 square kilometres, with six parallel runways. It would aim to accommodate up to 120 million travellers by 2030, and up to 185 million by 2050, as well as 3.5 million tonnes of cargo.
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