Saudi Arabia (sau)

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia ranks 661st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Christchurch, Murcia, and Nassau, Bahamas. Memorable people born in Saudi Arabia include Saleh Al-Fawzan, Ali Al-Naimi, and Mansour Ojjeh. Memorable people who died in Saudi Arabia include Abdullah ibn Umar, and Ubayy ibn Ka'b. Saudi Arabia has been the birth place of many soccer players, and religious figures and the death place of many religious figures. Saudi Arabia is located in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia. Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about 2,150,000 km2 (830,000 sq mi), making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the largest in the Middle East, and the 12th-largest in the world. It is bordered by the Red Sea to the west; Jordan, Iraq, and Kuwait to the north; the Persian Gulf, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to the east; Oman to the southeast; and Yemen to the south. The Gulf of Aqaba in the northwest separates Saudi Arabia from Egypt and Israel. Saudi Arabia is the only country with a coastline along both the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, and most of its terrain consists of arid desert, lowland, steppe, and mountains. The capital and largest city is Riyadh; other major cities include Jeddah and the two holiest cities in Islam, Mecca and Medina. With a population of almost 32.2 million, Saudi Arabia is the fourth most populous country in the Arab world. Read more on Wikipedia