Zone d'identification
Type of entity
Collectivité
Forme autorisée du nom
Riyadh Zoological Gardens
forme(s) parallèle(s) du nom
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Autre(s) forme(s) du nom
- Malaz Zoo
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates d’existence
1957-
Historique
Riyadh Zoo, known locally as Malaz Zoo, is a 55-acre zoo in the al-Malazz neighbourhood of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Founded in 1957 as a private menagerie for King Saud bin Abdulalziz and the Saudi Royal Family, the zoo was opened to the public in 1987. It is the largest and one of the oldest zoos in Saudi Arabia