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Hotat Bani Tamim

governorate in Saudi Arabia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ3543425 ↗
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Hotat Bani Tamim (Arabic: حوطة بني تميم), also spelled Hawtat Bani Tamim, is a governorate in Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia. It is located in the southern part of the province within the Najd region, approximately 135 kilometres (84 mi) south of Riyadh.

The governorate is named after the Banu Tamim tribe and contains the Ibex Reserve Protected Area within its boundaries.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 61-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Hotat, Bani and Tamim can be independently traced.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3543425. Authority coordinates are 23.487, 46.885. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hotat Bani Tamim” 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.