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Saudi Arabia , officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA ), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East . It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about 2150 000 km2 (830000 sq mi), making it the fifth-largest country in Asia and the largest in the Middle East. It is bordered by the Red Sea to the west; Jordan , Iraq , and Kuwait to the north; the Persian Gulf , Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to the east; Oman to the southeast; and Yemen to the south. Bahrain is an island country off its east coast. 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 ; the kingdom also hosts Islam's two holiest cities of Mecca and Medina . (Full article... )
Saudi Aramco (Arabic : أرامكو السعودية ʾArāmkū as-Suʿūdiyyah ), officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Group or simply Aramco (formerly Arabian-American Oil Company ), is a state-owned petroleum and natural gas company that is the national oil company of Saudi Arabia . , it is the second-largest company in the world by revenue and is headquartered in Dhahran . It has repeatedly achieved the largest annual profits in global corporate history . Saudi Aramco has both the world's second-largest proven crude oil reserves , at more than 270 billion barrels (43 billion cubic metres), and largest daily oil production of all oil-producing companies.
Saudi Aramco operates the world's largest single hydrocarbon network, the Master Gas System. In 2013, its crude oil production total was 3.4 billion barrels (540 million cubic metres), and it manages over one hundred oil and gas fields in Saudi Arabia, including 288.4
trillion standard cubic feet (scf) of
natural gas reserves. Along the
Eastern Province , Saudi Aramco most notably operates the
Ghawar Field (the world's largest
onshore oil field ) and the
Safaniya Field (the world's largest
offshore oil field ). (
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... that Saudi Arabian historian Sa'd ibn Junaydil took high school graduation exams with his students, as he had yet to obtain a high school diploma?
... that the 2021 film West Side Story was banned in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, and Bahrain, likely due to the transgender character Anybodys?
... that The Twins , a 1930 story by Abd al-Quddus al-Ansari , was called the first Saudi Arabian novel?
... that Saudi Arabian broadcaster beoutQ pirated and resold beIN Sports programmes during the Qatar diplomatic crisis ?
... that the bombing of Mokha was described as one of the deadliest attacks by the Saudi Arabian–led coalition against Yemen , leaving between 65 and 120 dead, including 10 children?
... that Saudi Arabian poet Hamad al-Hajji lost three members of his family during his childhood and later suffered from schizophrenia until he died at the age of 49 after a lung disease?
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Manal al-Sharif (Arabic : منال الشريف ; born 25 April 1979) is a Saudi women's rights activist who helped start a right to drive campaign in 2011. Wajeha al-Huwaider filmed al-Sharif driving a car as part of the campaign. The video was posted on YouTube and Facebook . Al-Sharif was detained on 21 May 2011, released, and then rearrested the following day. On 30 May, al-Sharif was released on bail , on the conditions of returning for questioning if requested, not driving, and not talking to the media. The New York Times and Associated Press associated the women's driving campaign as part of the Arab Spring and the long duration of al-Sharif's detention due to Saudi authorities' fear of protests.
Following her driving campaign, al-Sharif remained an active critic of the Saudi government,
tweeting on issues including imprisoned female foreign workers, the lack of elections for the
Shura Council , and the murder of
Lama al-Ghamdi . Her work has been recognized by
Foreign Policy ,
Time , and the
Oslo Freedom Forum . (
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Image 1 A view of
Jabal Sawda , a peak located in Saudi Arabia, with an elevation of around 3,000 metres (9,843 ft).
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Image 2 Nasseef House is a historical structure in
Al-Balad ,
Jeddah , Saudi Arabia. As of 2009 it is a museum and cultural center which has special exhibits and lectures given by historians.
Image 3 Sunset view from
Farasan Island , the largest island of the
Farasan Islands , in the
Red Sea . It is located some 50 km offshore from
Jizan , the far southwestern part of Saudi Arabia.
... that Candice Cohen-Ahnine, a French Jew, was engaged in a relationship with Saudi Arabian Prince Sattam al-Saud, and bore a child with him?
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Image 1 The Rashidun Caliphate reached its greatest extent under Caliph
Uthman ,
c. 654 (from
History of Saudi Arabia )
Image 2 Saudi woman wearing a
niqāb in Riyadh. Many women commonly wear a niqab or a burqa in Saudi Arabia. (from
Culture of Saudi Arabia )
Image 3 Abdulaziz (left) and Farouk checking an
Egyptian Army unit in 1946. Other people picture include princes
Fahd ,
Abdullah , and
Mishaal , as well as prince
Muhammad Abdel Moneim . (from
History of Saudi Arabia )
Image 4 A Saudi woman
riding a horse at
Souk Okaz , a yearly cultural festival in the outskirts of
Taif (from
Culture of Saudi Arabia )
Image 6 Saudi males dressed and prepared for
ardah , the national dance. It also includes swords, poetry, and singing. (from
Culture of Saudi Arabia )
Image 7 Wedding in Saudi Arabia (from
Culture of Saudi Arabia )
Image 8 King Abdullah practicing
falconry , a traditional pursuit in Saudi Arabia (from
Culture of Saudi Arabia )
Image 9 The surviving insurgents of the
seizure of the Grand Mosque, 1979 under custody of Saudi authorities,
c. 1980 . (from
History of Saudi Arabia )
Image 10 VOX Cinemas movie theater (center) at
Riyadh Front in 2023 (from
Culture of Saudi Arabia )
Image 11 Residential homes in
Yanbu (from
Culture of Saudi Arabia )
Image 12 Abdulaziz (left) and Roosevelt aboard USS
Quincy during their historic 1945 meeting (from
History of Saudi Arabia )
Image 15 Pakistani workers at Al Masjid Nabawi (the
Prophet's Mosque ) in
Medina (from
Culture of Saudi Arabia )
Image 16 The
tribes of Arabia at the time of the
spread of Islam (expandable map) (from
History of Saudi Arabia )
Image 17 Bisht Being Sewn in
Al-Ahsa (from
Culture of Saudi Arabia )
Image 18 Abdulaziz Al Saud , founder of Saudi Arabia (from
History of Saudi Arabia )
Image 19 Dammam No. 7 , the oil well where commercial volumes of oil were first discovered in Saudi Arabia on March 4, 1938. (from
History of Saudi Arabia )
Image 22 Wall painted with Al-Qatt Al-Asiri (from
Culture of Saudi Arabia )
Image 23 The Arabian Peninsula in 1914 (from
History of Saudi Arabia )
Image 24 Faisal (left) and Nasser in Cairo, 1969 (from
History of Saudi Arabia )
Image 25 Sections of Saudi Arabia and neighbouring countries formed a part of the Roman Empire. (from
History of Saudi Arabia )
Image 26 A family fishing in
Jeddah (from
Culture of Saudi Arabia )
Image 27 Soldiers in the Arab Army during the Arab Revolt of 1916–1918, carrying the
Flag of the Arab Revolt and pictured in the Arabian Desert. (from
History of Saudi Arabia )
Image 28 Supplicating pilgrim at
Masjid Al Haram , Mecca (from
Culture of Saudi Arabia )
Image 29 Red and white
keffiyeh commonly worn in the desert held with a black
agal (from
Culture of Saudi Arabia )
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