Sunday, November 6, 2011

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World. It is bordered by Jordan, and Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south. It is also connected to Bahrain by the King Fahd Causeway. The Red Sea lies to its west, and the Persian Gulf lies to the northeast. Saudi Arabia has an area of approximately 2,149,690 km2 (830,000 sq mi), it has an estimated population of 27 million of which 8.8 million are registered foreign expatriates and an estimated 1.5 million are illegal immigrants, the saudi nationals comprise an estimated 16 million people[5].

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