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Non-Oil GDP Share: 55% 2025 real GDP |Saudi Unemployment: 7.2% Q4 2025 |PIF AUM: $925B 2025 approx. |FDI Share of GDP: 2.8% 2025 latest |Female Participation: 35.0% 2025 latest |Credit Rating: Aa3/A+/A+ Moody's/Fitch/S&P |GDP Growth: 4.5% 2025 actual |Umrah Pilgrims: 18M+ 2025 foreign |Non-Oil GDP Share: 55% 2025 real GDP |Saudi Unemployment: 7.2% Q4 2025 |PIF AUM: $925B 2025 approx. |FDI Share of GDP: 2.8% 2025 latest |Female Participation: 35.0% 2025 latest |Credit Rating: Aa3/A+/A+ Moody's/Fitch/S&P |GDP Growth: 4.5% 2025 actual |Umrah Pilgrims: 18M+ 2025 foreign |

Tabuk

The Howeitat: How Saudi Arabia Dismantled a Tribe to Build a City That Doesn't Exist

20,000 people displaced from ancestral lands. Homes destroyed. Electricity cut. Elders bribed. A propaganda campaign manufactured. The forensic account of how Saudi Arabia dismantled the Howeitat tribe to clear land for a megacity that was never built.

Updated Apr 18, 2026

Investing in Tabuk Region

Regional investment guide to Tabuk covering NEOM, Red Sea tourism, green hydrogen, and giga-project concentration.

Updated Apr 18, 2026

NEOM Mega-City Project

In-depth analysis of NEOM, Saudi Arabia's $500 billion mega-city project in Tabuk Province featuring The Line, Oxagon, Trojena, and Sindalah as centrepieces of Vision 2030's economic diversification.

Updated Apr 18, 2026

Tabuk

A city and region in northwest Saudi Arabia that hosts the NEOM gigaproject and serves as a gateway to Red Sea tourism and the Kingdom's northern frontier.

Updated Apr 18, 2026