الصناعة في المناطق الجنوبية الغربية من المملكة العربية السعودية : دراسة في الجغرافيا الصناعية

Abstract EN

Saudi Arabia includes three ten administrative regions, some of them are: Asir, Jizan, Najran, and Baha, which they are located in the south western part of the country.

That mean, they locate in South industrial axis of the Kingdom.

There are, in this administrative regions, about 199 producers factories, which they were producing until 1430 (2009 AD), and it is endemic industrially slightly, where representing 4.4% of total Saudi factories.

Moreover, the industrial spatial studies, which dealt with those areas, are few as well.

This study aims to shed light on the spatial variation of the factories in the southwest administrative areas, where it will be descriptive and quantitative analysis to know the evolution of these plants and their types, also that their geographical distribution and contrast levels, in addition to know their economic characteristics, industrial endemism and diversity.

This has resulted in the study that is industrial endemic in the southern regions accounted for 4.4% of the total number of factories in Saudi Arabia (1430 AH / 2009 AD), and the industry's history has been returned to the year of 1386 AH (1966 AD).

But the majority of these factories were established after 1394 AH (1974 AD), which mean, that were after the economic boom first, at Arabic Gulf States.

The Asir region accounted for the lion's share of the industry between South administrative regions, reaching labor, the number of factories and capital ratios 64%, 62%, 53%, respectively.

The factories are concentrated in the regions of Asir and Jizan which stood at 82% of all factories of southwest administrative regions of the industry.

It results indicate that there are significant differences in the size of the industrial labor force in the south western regions; and that there is a positive correlation and strong, and statistically significant among the population and number of factories in the south western regions, as there are factors have an impact in endemic industry, such as the number of those in working-age population, and purchasing power, and the availability of transportation networks.