Histoire de la Fin de la Croissance - Saudi Arabia's £67bn desert megacity will be the size of Washington DC

Saudi Arabia is pushing ahead with plans to complete building work on a new megacity in the desert.



The King Abdullah Economic City, or KAEC (pronounced 'cake'), will be slightly larger than Washington DC and home to approximately two million residents.



Covering 70 square miles, the metropolis is costing £67 billion ($100 billion) and lies 100km from Jeddah, the commercial hub of the kingdom, near the Red Sea.

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