Editing Medina (section)

====Under the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia====
The [[Kingdom of Saudi Arabia]] focused more on the expansion of the city and the demolition of former sites that according to them violated [[Fiqh|Islamic principles]] and [[Sharia|Islamic law]] such as the [[Demolition of al-Baqi|tombs at al-Baqi]]. Nowadays, the city mostly only holds religious significance and as such, just like Mecca, has given rise to a number of hotels surrounding the [[Al-Masjid an-Nabawi]], which unlike the [[Al-Masjid Al-Ḥarām|Masjid Al-Ḥarām]], is equipped with an underground parking. The old city's walls have been destroyed and replaced with the three [[ring road]]s that encircle Medina today, named in order of length, King Faisal Road, King Abdullah Road and King Khalid Road. Medina's ring roads generally see less traffic overall compared to the four ring roads of Mecca.

An international airport, named the [[Prince Mohammed Bin Abdulaziz Airport|Prince Mohammed Bin Abdulaziz International Airport]], now serves the city and is located on Highway 340, known locally as the Old Qassim Road. The city now sits at the crossroads of two major Saudi Arabian highways, Highway 60, known as the Qassim–Medina Highway, and Highway 15 which connects the city to [[Mecca]] in the south and onward and [[Tabuk, Saudi Arabia|Tabuk]] in the north and onward, known as the Al Hijrah Highway or Al Hijrah Road, after Muhammad's journey. [[File:Medina from ISS 2017.jpg|thumb|Medina from [[International Space Station]], 2017. Note that North is to the right.]]The old Ottoman railway system was shut down after their departure from the region and the old railway station has now been converted into a [[museum]]. The city has recently seen another connection and mode of transport between it and Mecca, the [[Haramain high-speed railway]] line connects the two cities via [[King Abdullah Economic City]] near [[Rabigh]], [[King Abdulaziz International Airport]] and the city of [[Jeddah]] in under 3 hours.

Though the city's sacred core of the old city is off limits to non-Muslims, the [[Haram (site)|Haram area]] of Medina itself is much smaller than that of Mecca and Medina has recently seen an increase in the number of Muslim and Non-Muslim expatriate workers of other nationalities, most commonly [[South Asia]]n peoples and people from other countries in the [[Gulf Cooperation Council]]. Almost all of the historic city has been demolished in the Saudi era. The rebuilt city is centered on the vastly expanded ''al-Masjid an-Nabawi''.