Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince announces ‘The Line’ – a zero carbon city of 1 million

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince announces ‘The Line’ – a zero carbon city of 1 million

Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman announces 'The Line' - a zero carbon city of 1 million

Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman announces 'The Line' - a zero carbon city of 1 million

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announces "The Line" project at NEOM. (NEOM)

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Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman announces 'The Line' - a zero carbon city of 1 million

170km long development will be built at NEOM, and have no cars or conventional roads

Construction of 'revolutionary' city will preserve 95 per cent of natural environment in which it is built

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RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has announced a huge new zero-carbon city to be built at NEOM in northwestern Saudi Arabia.

The project named "The Line“ will be home to a million people and have no cars and no streets, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said in a video released on Sunday.

The city will be a 170 kilometer belt of "hyper-connected future communities,“ and will be built around the natural environment, he said.

"We need to transform the concept of a conventional city into that of a futuristic one,“ Prince Mohammed said at an event to launch the city.

"By 2050, one billion people will have