Ar Rass

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Ar Rass الرس
City
Ar Rass
Coordinates: 25°52′N 43°30′E / 25.867°N 43.500°E / 25.867; 43.500
Country	Saudi Arabia
Province	Al Qassim Province
Area
• City	2,651 km2 (1,024 sq mi)
Population  (Census 2022[1])
• City	121,359
• Density	46/km2 (120/sq mi)
• Urban	107,902
Time zone	UTC+3 (AST)

Rass (also spelled Ar Rass, or Al-Ras; Arabic: الرس) is a Saudi Arabian City, located in Al Qassim Province. It lies southwest of Buraydah, the capital of the province and north of Riyadh, the national capital.

Rass is the largest city in Al-Qassim province by area and third largest by population. Rass is Arabic for "an old well", and it was mentioned in a poem of Hassan Bin Thabit, the poet who was a companion (Sahaba) of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad.^{[citation needed]}

The city is ruled by the Al Assaf family. It has 19 official sub-governorates, and is surrounded by around two hundred villages, and Bedouin settlements, mainly on its southern and western sides. and al-Rass is a historical city that was a resource for the Arab tribes in the peninsula, and most of Najd, especially Qassim, was inhabited by the tribes of Bani Asad, which were left to be replaced by other tribes. He was the first to inhabit the Al-Rass after the Asadites, the Banu Tamim, who moved to it from Ashikar, and the Banu Lam and their most tribes followed them, the Dhafir tribe and Al-Fadoul tribe, along with the Al Katheer and Al Mughayra family.