Editing Khamis Mushait (section)

==History==
[[File:507 Cameron skyline of village - USACE-p15141coll5-15663.jpeg|thumb|left|1966 skyline of the village]]
Until the 1970s, Khamis Mushayt was a small town of less than 50,000 servicing the surrounding mild-climate agricultural region. Since then its population has grown dramatically to reach over 1,200,000. The city is surrounded by farms producing agricultural crops.<ref name="HamShams2004">{{cite book|last1=Ham|first1=Anthony|last2=Shams|first2=Martha Brekhus|last3=Madden|first3=Andrew|title=Saudi Arabia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PddTr1X7hEgC&pg=PA134|access-date=27 August 2012|date=15 September 2004|publisher=Lonely Planet|isbn=978-1-74059-667-1|page=134}}</ref>

[[King Khalid Air Base]] (KMX) has a {{convert|12400|ft|0|abbr=on}} paved runway without customs facilities. The base was designed and built by US Army and Air Force engineers in the 1960s and 70s and has [[F-15]] service facilities.<ref name="CordesmanAl-Rodhan2007">{{cite book|last1=Cordesman|first1=Anthony H.|last2=Al-Rodhan|first2=Khalid R.|title=Gulf Military Forces in an Era of Asymmetric Wars|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XWg1mvPuhkUC&pg=PA216|access-date=27 August 2012|year=2007|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-275-99399-3|page=216}}</ref> During the [[Gulf War]] in 1991, the US Airforce had a base here from which they launched bombers on [[Baghdad]].<ref name="HamShams2004"/>

Khamis Mushayt was known by that name since the 1760s, it has been named after the family name of Al-Mushayt referring a man called Mushayt who protected this city and like deem Mushayt, Mushayt it has been referred to MushaYt Ibn Salem the head of [[Shahran]] tribe and the guardian of the market.<ref>كتاب الشيخ سعيد بن عبدالعزيز ابن مشيط شيخ شمل قبائل شهران و ابنه عبدالعزيز في ذاكرة التاريخ</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.moqatel.com/openshare/Behoth/Dwal-Modn1/Khamees/sec01.doc_cvt.htm |title=Al Moqatel - خميس مشيط، المملكة العربية السعودية |publisher=Moqatel.com |access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref>