The Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh has won the right to host the Expo 2030 world fair, vote results show, in another diplomatic victory for a Gulf country after last year's soccer World Cup in Qatar.
South Korea's port city of Busan and Rome in Italy were also in the running to host the five-yearly event that attracts millions of visitors and billions of dollars in investment.
Riyadh won 119 votes, Busan 29 and Rome 17, results from 182 members of the Paris-based Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) showed Tuesday. Saudi Arabia needed two-thirds of the votes to win from the first round.