Khobar City

Khobar (also written al-Khobar or al-Khubar) is a small city located in the Eastern Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Many of Khobars residents work for Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil company, in nearby Dhahran.
Other residents work in support roles. Traditionally, Khobar has also been a city of shopkeepers and merchants, and the city today boasts numerous modern malls and boulevards with internationally-recognized franchise shops and eating places.
In earlier days, Khobar was a small port & a fishing village inhabited mainly by Al Dawasir tribe members.
With the discovery of oil in the 1930s, it was transformed into a major commercial and shopping center and, secondarily, an industrial port. The 16 mile King Fahd Causeway connects Khobar to the island nation of Bahrain, previously reachable only by air or sea. The city has a population of about 360,000.