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2022–2023 Saudi Arabia floods

disaster in Saudi Arabia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ115801634 ↗
Source-derived summary

In November 2022, Saudi Arabia was hit by riverine flooding as a result of heavy rain. The main affected area was the city of Jeddah in which two people were killed. As a result, flights were delayed and schools were closed. The main road to Mecca was also closed.

On 23 December 2022, torrential rain caused flash flooding in Mecca. In the start of January 2023, Jeddah experienced further floods.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2022–2023 Saudi Arabia floods” is disaster in Saudi Arabia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Saudi, Arabia and floods, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Saudi, Arabia and floods is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q115801634. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022 and 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “2022–2023 Saudi Arabia floods” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.