The Riyadh Province (Arabic: منطقة الرياض Manṭiqat ar-Riyāḍ), also known as the Riyadh Region, is a province of Saudi Arabia, located in the geographic center of the country and the center of the Arabian Peninsula. It has an area of 404,240 km (156,080 sq mi) and with a 2022 population of 8,591,748, it is the second-largest region by area, behind the Eastern Province and the largest by population. The capital governorate of the province is the Riyadh Governorate and it is named after the capital of the kingdom, Riyadh, which is the most populous city in the region and the kingdom, with a little less than two-thirds of the population of the region residing within the city. The province was governed for nearly five decades by Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz from 1963 to 2011 shortly before he became the Crown Prince in 2012. Currently, it is governed by Prince Faisal bin Bandar.

Other populous cities in the region include Al Ghat, Dawadmi, Afif, Zulfi and Majma'ah. Approximately half of the region's area is desert, and it only borders other regions of the kingdom; it has no international borders. The region borders, clockwise from the north, the Eastern Province, Najran Province, ʽAsir Province, Mecca Province, Medina Province and the Al-Qassim Province. It is one of the 7 regions of the kingdom that do not have a coastline.

Population development since 1992:

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1992	3,834,986	—
2004	5,458,273	+2.99%
2010	6,792,776	+3.71%
2022	8,591,748	+1.98%
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In addition to the Municipality of Riyadh, the region is divided into 19 governorates (muhafazat) and 1 sub-governorate (markaz):

• Riyadh
• Layla
• 'Afif
• Dawadmi
• al-Ghat
• al-Gway'iyyah
• al-Hareeg
• Al-Kharj
• Al Majma'ah
• Al-Muzahmiyyah
• al-Sulayyil
• Dhruma
• Dir'iyyah
• Hotat Bani Tamim
• Huraymila
• Rimah
• Shaqra
• Thadig
• Wadi ad-Dawasir
• The sub-governorate (markaz) of Marat, which is tied directly to the Municipality of Riyadh.
• Yabrin
• Zulfy City (Al-Zulfi City)

Period	from	to	Timeline
First Saudi State	1727	1818	74 years
Khedewian Invasion	1818	1824	6 years
Second Saudi State "first period"	1824	1838	14 years
Khedewian Invasion "secondly"	1838	1843	5 years
Second Saudi State "second period"	1843	1865	22 years
Civil War	1865	1887	22 years
(Conquests of Abdul Aziz Al-Saud "he began to Riyadh") Third Saudi State	1902	1932	30 years
(End of Conquests) "Kingdom of Saudi Arabia"	1932	....	...

Name	Dates
Muhammad bin Saad bin Zaid	1929–1936
Prince Nasser bin Abdulaziz	1937–28 May 1947
Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz	29 May 1947 – 19 December 1952
Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz (on behalf of Prince Sultan)	3 March – 19 December 1952
Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz	20 December 1952 – 18 April 1955
Prince Salman bin Abdul-Aziz (on behalf of Prince Nayef)	16 March 1954 – 18 April 1955
King Salman bin Abdulaziz	18 April 1955 – 22 September 1960
Prince Turki bin Abdul-Aziz (on behalf of Prince Salman)	10–21 Oct 1957 – 1957; 31 October 1960
Prince Fawaz bin Abdulaziz	11 September 1961 – 20 January 1963
Prince Badr bin Saud bin Abdulaziz	20 Jan – 5 February 1963
Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz	5 February 1963 – 5 November 2011
Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz	5 November 2011 – 12 February 2013
Prince Khalid bin Bandar Al Saud	14 February 2013 – 14 May 2014
Prince Turki bin Abdullah Al Saud	14 May 2014 – 29 January 2015
Prince Faisal bin Bandar Al Saud	29 January 2015 – present

• Official website (in Arabic)
• "Official website". (in English)
• "Riyadh Province". Splendid Arabia. Travel. 17 August 2013.
• Central Department of Statistics and Information (CDSI), official Saudi census figures from 2004:
  • "Distribution of Population in the Kingdom's Administrative Regions by Gender and Nationality (Saudis, Non-Saudis)". Archived from the original on 3 January 2008.
  • "Distribution of Population in the Governorates of the Kingdom by Sex and Nationality (Saudis, Non-Saudis)". (CDSI). Archived from the original on 3 January 2008.