Sakakah

Sakaka is considered one of the oldest inhabited sites within the Arabian Peninsula, with settlement dating back at least 4,000 years. The wider Al Jawf Region is referenced in Akkadian inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Empire dating to the 9th to 7th centuries BC, in which the nearby city of Dumat al-Jandal (then known as Adummatu) is described as the stronghold of the Arabians. Sakaka is an oasis town on an ancient caravan route across the Arabian Peninsula, which ran from the Mediterranean coast and Mesopotamia to the central and southern parts of the peninsula. The 19th-century English traveller Lady Anne Blunt described Sakaka as a town "with an old castle perched at an altitude of about 100 feet" overlooking the city — a reference to Zabal Castle. …

The Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies its climate as hot desert (BWh).

Al-Jawf is notable for its abundant agricultural water, making possible the cultivation of dates (200,000 palms) and olives (12,000,000 trees), as well as other agricultural products. Farms number around 16,000, and agricultural projects around 1,500. It is the home to agribusiness farms such as Watania Farms, the largest organic farm in the kingdom. The fertile agricultural land of Al-Jawf is due largely to underground water, which drew delegates of King Abdul Aziz. They were sent to the town of Sakaka and Dumat Al-Jandal and Qurayat, requesting resident tribes there to join the nascent kingdom. Sakaka is home to many Saudi families that can proudly trace their lineage to a few large, old tribes that have dominated the area since time immemorial.

The city is served by Al-Jawf Airport which has domestic flights and International flights to some of the major cities in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia Railways also has a station in Sakakah on its Riyadh–Qurayyat line.