![]() There are no rivers or bodies of water in the country, only ancient river channels, now buried by the seas of sand. The Najd is bounded to the east by the historical region of Eastern Arabia, and in the north by the Syrian Desert. The Hejaz separates the coastal area from the Najd, the central region of Saudi Arabia. The one hundred kilometers wide strip of coastal plains and the western mountain ranges is known as the Hejaz ('the Barrier'). The highest point of Saudi Arabia is Jabal Sawda, the peak of about 3,000 m is located in the Abha region in the Asir mountains in the southwestern corner of the sheikdom. The coastal plain in western Saudi Arabia along the Red Sea is known as the Tihamah, the east of the plain is dominated by the escarpments of two mountain ranges, the Hejaz and the Asir mountain range, separated by a gap in the area of Mecca. The Rub' al Khali is one of the world's largest contiguous sand deserts. The vast area consists of a number of interconnected desert regions including the An Nafud in the north, and the Rub' al Khali ("the Empty Quarter") in the southern part of the country. The Arabian Desert covers large parts of the country's landscape. Other major towns are Jiddah, Ta'if (At Taif), Dammam, Buraydah, and Al Khobar, part of the Dammam metropolitan area. The country's capital and largest city is Riyadh. Saudi Arabia is the homeland of Arab Bedouins and the Arabian language, the historic birthplace of Islam and the Arab-Islamic culture which originated in the towns of Mecca and Medina at the beginning of the 7th century. Saudi Arabia has a population of 34.8 million people (in 2020) more than 10 million people are expatriates, mainly from Asia and the Middle East. The country is the largest Arab state with a land area of more than two million kmĀ² compared, the sheikdom is about four times the size of France, or somewhat larger than one quarter the size of the contiguous United States. Saudi Arabia shares maritime boundaries with Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea in the Red Sea, and with Iran, and Bahrain in the Persian Gulf. Border countries are Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. The kingdom is bounded by the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea in the west and the Persian Gulf in the east. The map shows Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a desert country in southwestern Asia (Middle East) that occupies most of the Arabian Peninsula. ![]()
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