Contains the Rub' al Khali, the largest continuous sand desert in the world, and has no permanent rivers.
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Saudi Arabia
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ยท ุงูุณุนูุฏูุฉ
Asia
ยท Western Asia
0Population
2.15Mkmยฒ of land
$23.14KGDP / person
RiyadhCapital
- ISO codes
- SA ยท SAU
- Density
- 16 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Arabic
- Currency
- Saudi riyal (SAR)
- Dial code
- +966
- Internet domain
- .sa
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 23.8070ยฐ N, 44.7000ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Saudi Arabian
- UN region
- Western Asia
- Economy
- Developed region: nonG7
- Income group
- High income: nonOECD
- Total GDP
- $792.97B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 7
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By the numbers
How Saudi Arabia stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
41st
of 242 ยท 0.45% of world population
Land area
14th
of 242 ยท 1.43% of world land
GDP per person
64th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
206th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Saudi Arabia
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 34,268,528 people, the 41st largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.45 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 2,149,690 kmยฒ, making it the 14th largest country here - about 8.9 times the size of the United Kingdom.
Population density is about 16 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Riyadh, at 24.64ยฐ N, 46.77ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 4,465,000.
Shares land borders with 7 countries: Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar (and 2 more).
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Riyadh.
The currency is the Saudi riyal (SAR, symbol ุฑ.ุณ).
The official language is Arabic.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Riyadh
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UTC+03:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Riyadh
Ar Riyad
24.6428ยฐ N, 46.7708ยฐ E
4.47M
2
Jeddah
Makkah
21.5188ยฐ N, 39.2173ยฐ E
3.01M
3
Makkah
Makkah
21.4320ยฐ N, 39.8181ยฐ E
1.39M
4
Medina
Al Madinah
24.5019ยฐ N, 39.5781ยฐ E
1.01M
5
Tabuk
Tabuk
28.3838ยฐ N, 36.5550ยฐ E
547.96K
Land neighbours
7 countries share a border with Saudi Arabia.