Geographically, the Ras Tanura complex is located south of the modern industrial port city of formerly a fishing village and north across Tarut Bay from the old port city of Al- | |
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Airport [ ] The city is served by | Demography [ ] Ras Tanura is one of four residential compounds built by ARAMCO in the 1940s and the only one located on the coast of the Persian Gulf itself |
Egyptian and Jordanian , Filipinos, Indians, Pakistanis, and a few Americans and British expats—all of whom live with English as the common language.
5However a current project is ongoing to shorten that distance to 40 km 25 mi if the new road is completed | The distance from the city center to the terminal in Dammam Airport is approximately 50 km 31 mi |
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In addition, have been constructed in the waters nearby, mostly by , , and | Built originally to allow expatriate oil company employees mainly Americans a degree of Western comfort and separation from the restrictions of Saudi and Islamic laws, the community today has shifted somewhat in line with the reduction of western residents into a multi-ethnic mosaic of Saudis, other Arab nationalities e |
Selection of images [ ]• References to Ras Tanura in popular culture [ ] A movie-length documentary production of the company-built towns, including the Ras Tanura employee camp Najmah, is the nostalgically-titled Home: The Aramco Brats Story, promoted and released with a trailer and DVD in December 2006.
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