The Qassim Province, also known as the Qassim Region, and officially the Emirate of Al-Qassim Province, is one of the 13 provinces of Saudi Arabia. Located at the heart of the country near the geographic centre of the Arabian Peninsula, it has a population of 1829936 and an area of 58,046 km².The Dates Festival is held in the Buraidah region as an annual celebration for farmers, and it lasts for 75 days, and displays 200 thousand tons of dates harvested to more than 8 million palm trees, and it also records a remarkable increase in sales of more than 25 million riyals per day.