Ar Rass
Rass (also spelled Ar Rass, AlRass, or Al-Ras; Arabic:الرس) is a Saudi Arabian town, located in the Al Qassim Province. It lies southwest of Buraydah, the capital of the province and also north of Riyadh, the national capital.
It is the third largest city in Al Qassim Province by population, with an estimated population of 133,000 (2010 census). It has an area of about 60 km². Rass means "an old well" in Arabic, and it was mentioned in a poem of Hassan Bin Thabit, the poet who was a companion (Sahaba) of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad.