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King Fahd Causeway: An Engineering Marvel Linking Saudi Arabia to Bahrain

Extending over a length of 25 kilometers, the King Fahd Causeway is the only terrestrial link between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Named after former Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, this impressive causeway took more than 30 years to be completed.

Ancient History

In the 1950s, King Saud visited Bahrain and expressed his sincere wishes to boost and strengthen the bilateral relations between both Kingdoms.

Consequently, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia and Prime Minister of Bahrain officially agreed to foster their relations through an impressively-engineered bridge between the two countries.

Therefore, multiple committees, experts and ministers, including a delegation from the World Bank, worked together to set the plan for this large causeway.

The construction phases took four years and the King Fahd Causeway officially opened to the public on November 26, 1986.

The occasion marked a grand ceremony attended by the Late King Fahad and the Late Shaikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa.

King Fahd Causeway: An Engineering Marvel Linking Saudi Arabia to Bahrain
The King Fahd Causeway

Spectacular Architecture

The causeway encompasses two separate roads, each road spanning 11.6 meters wide and accommodating two lanes traveling in opposite directions.

It also comprises an emergency parking curb to ensure the safety of the passengers.

Furthermore, it features five bridges and seven artificial islands.

Exact Location

The King Fahd Causeway starts from Saudi Arabia at Al-Aziziyyah, located south of Al Khobar and runs till Al-Jasra, Bahrain situated west of Manama.

This remarkable causeway contains seven embankments, covering a distance of 12.57 kilometers.

The embankment number four marks the most extensive border station, spanning an area of 660,000 square meters.

This border station contains two interconnected islands, featuring two mosques, two tower restaurants at a height of 65 meters, government directorate buildings, and two coastguard towers.

Latitude: 26.184579

Longitude: 50.323520

King Fahd Causeway: An Engineering Marvel Linking Saudi Arabia to Bahrain
The King Fahd Causeway

Great Significance

The causeway serves approximately 45,000 vehicles daily.

The number increased to over 60,000 on weekends. Bahrain received 11.1 million visitors, with 9.7 million (88 percent) arriving via the causeway in 2019.

Cars, buses, trucks, and more recently motorcycles have been steadily using the causeway to travel between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Around 400 million people have used the causeway since it was opened.

 

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