Saudi Geographical Society
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The Saudi Geographical Society (Arabic: الجمعية الجغرافية السعودية, Aj-jam'aiya Aj-joġrafïya as-Saʻūdiyya), a learned society headquartered in King Saud University, Riyadh in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is a non-for-profit organization for workers and experts in geography. Its recently elected chairman is Prof. Mohammad Sh. Makki.
By 2005, 251 members were involved in the Society within 5 Research Groups.
The society was established 1971, and the first meeting for the General Congress took place on 22 December 1984. It was ratified by the Higher Education Council in Saudi Arabia under the category of research societies operating in national universities. Previously, many geographic associations were working within the Saudi universities. These associations merged to become the recent Society that joined the International Geographical Union.
