Hafar al-Batin

Hafar al-Batin
City
Nickname:  Capital of the Spring
Hafar al-Batin
Coordinates: 28°26′3″N 45°57′49″E / 28.43417°N 45.96361°E / 28.43417; 45.96361
Country	Saudi Arabia
Province	Eastern Province
Established	638 CE (17 AH)
Joint Saudi Arabia	1925
Government
• Manager of Municipality	Muhammad Hmoud AlShaie’a[1]
• City Governor	Abdulmuhsen Al-Otaishan
• Deputy Governor	Musliet Abdulaziz AlZugaibi
• Provincial Governor	Saud bin Nayef Al Saud
Population  (2022[2])
• City	387,096
• Metro	467,007 (Hafar al-Batin Governorate)
Time zone	UTC+3 (AST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (AST)
Postal Code	31991
Area code	+966-1-3-7

Hafar al-Batin (Arabic: حفر الباطن Ḥafar al-Bāṭin), also frequently spelled Hafr al-Batin, is a city in the Hafar al-Batin Governorate, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. It is located 430 km north of Riyadh, 94.2 km from the Kuwait border, and about 74.3 from the Iraq border. The city lies in the dry valley of the Wadi al-Batin, which is part of the longer valley of the river Wadi al-Rummah (now dry), which leads inland toward Medina and formerly emptied into the Persian Gulf.