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Place Qatif inside Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province, then narrow the view from country to province to local coast. You will practice using borders, province labels, and nearby cities to avoid treating Qatif as an isolated point.
A medical courier must send a temperature-sensitive shipment to a clinic in Qatif. The team needs the right region, nearby cities, and local coast before the freezer clock runs out.
Recognize Qatif on the western shore of the Gulf, with the sea to the east and Saudi mainland to the west. You will also handle maps that label the same waterway as the Arabian Gulf or Persian Gulf.
Use what you learned in the previous lesson to solve real-world problems.
Check what you understood with a short quiz.
Tell when a map is using Qatif to mean the city, the oasis area, or the wider governorate. You will use label size, boundary lines, and nearby place names to judge what the map is actually marking.
Locate Tarout Island just off the Qatif coast and compare it with the nearby mainland shoreline. You will trace bridges, channels, and coastlines so “island,” “town,” and “coastal district” do not blur together.
Read the local pattern around Qatif by placing Saihat to the south, Safwa toward the north, and Awamiya near the inland side of the oasis area. You will use these names only as map anchors, not as a full naming lesson.
Connect Qatif to Dammam, Dhahran, and Khobar on a simple regional map. You will compare their positions as nearby urban and oil-linked centers south of Qatif, rather than memorizing them as a list.
Place Ras Tanura and Jubail in relation to Qatif along the northern Gulf coast. You will see why ports, refining, and industrial cities matter for reading modern maps of the region.
Use a map scale to estimate short regional distances, such as Qatif to Dammam, Ras Tanura, Jubail, or Bahrain. You will practice judging “nearby” by kilometers and travel direction, not just by visual closeness.
Trace the main north–south road logic that links Qatif with Dammam, Ras Tanura, Jubail, and farther Gulf destinations. You will read highways as movement corridors along the coast rather than just lines on the map.
Follow how Qatif connects outward toward Bahrain, Kuwait, and Riyadh through coastal roads, causeway access, and inland routes. You will reason through why Qatif sits between local coast life and wider regional movement.
Review this chapter with practice based on your mistakes.
