Saudi Arabia



"This is Saudi Arabia... a place where not only genies, lamps, and flying carpets are there... but now there IS oil. Oil for all Americans to use to keep the war going for them all to fight terrorists and Arab dictators that hate the USA, especially in the Middle East. Now it's being attacked by Iran."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Arabian Nights of Terror

Saudi Arabia (/ˌsɔːdi əˈreɪbiə/, /ˌsaʊ-/), officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a sovereign Arab state in Western Asia constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula. With a land area of approximately 2,150,000 km2 (830,000 sq mi), Saudi Arabia is geographically the fifth-largest state in Asia and second-largest state in the Arab world after Algeria. Saudi Arabia is bordered by Jordan and Iraq to the north, Kuwait to the northeast, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates to the east, Oman to the southeast and Yemen to the south. It is separated from Israel and Egypt by the Gulf of Aqaba. It is the only nation with both a Red Sea coast and a Persian Gulf coast and most of its terrain consists of arid desert and mountains.