50,000 Urban Heritage Assets Registered Across Saudi Arabia in 2025

In 2025, the Heritage Commission registered 8,581 urban heritage assets in the National Urban Heritage Register across Asir, Al-Baha and Makkah, achieving its approved target of 50,000 built heritage assets nationwide. Assets include the historic buildings, landscapes, monuments, archaeological sites, cultural practices, and social values that give cities their unique character.

The registration forms part of efforts to protect, document and register urban heritage assets, manage them efficiently, highlight their heritage value and raise community awareness of their importance to ensure they remain a cultural legacy for future generations.

The National Urban Heritage Register serves as the official list of heritage sites and buildings recorded in accordance with criteria of national, architectural or cultural significance under the Law of Antiquities, Museums, and Urban Heritage. To register the sites, the Commission relies on geospatial information systems to accurately manage, store and preserve data related to these sites and buildings, and to determine preventive measures and required protection standards to safeguard them.

Citizens can report more urban heritage sites through the Heritage Commission's official online platform.