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Saudi Arabia to scale back plans for The Line, say reports

By 2024-04-10T10:00:00

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Source: NEOM

Plans for 170 km city cut to less than 3 km by 2030

Saudi Arabia has reportedly scaled back its plans to build a 170 km-long city in the desert. 

The oil-dependent state had at one point hoped 1.5 million people would live in The Line, a planned megastructure which would be longer than the distance between New York and Philadelphia and taller at some points than the Empire State Building. 

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