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Country List World Factbook Home The World Factbook Saudi Arabia Introduction Saudi Arabia Background: Geography Saudi Arabia Location: Middle East, bordering the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea, north of Yemen Geographic coordinates: 25 00 N, 45 00 E Map references: Middle East Area: total: 1,960,582 sq km land: 1,960,582 sq km water: sq km Area - comparative: slightly more than one-fifth the size of the US Land boundaries: total: 4,431 km border countries: Iraq 814 km, Jordan 744 km, Kuwait 222 km, Oman 676 km, Qatar 60 km, UAE 457 km, Yemen 1,458 km Coastline: 2,640 km Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 18 nm continental shelf: not specified Climate: harsh, dry desert with great temperature extremes Terrain: mostly uninhabited, sandy desert Elevation extremes: lowest point: Persian Gulf m highest point: Jabal Sawda' 3,133 m Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, gold, copper Land use: arable land: permanent crops: other: Irrigated land: 16,200 sq km (1998 est.)

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Home page Arab Info Saudi Arabia Info Saudi History ... Links to Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia - Government In January 1994 the Chairman of the PLO, Yasser Arafat, visited Saudi Arabia (Riyadh) the Middle East peace settlement with King Fahd. This meeting represented a significant rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and the PLO in the wake of the 1990-91 Gulf crisis. In January 1995 King Fahd held a meeting in Mecca with Yasser Arafat, and in April Saudi Arabia became the first Arab country to recognize passports issued by the Palestine National Authority (PNA). In January 1995 King Fahd held a meeting in Mecca with Yasser Arafat, and in April Saudi Arabia became the first Arab country to recognize passports issued by the Palestine National Authority (PNA). The normalization of relations between the two countries began in November with the appointment of a Saudi ambassador to Jordan. Relations were consolidated in February and August 1996, when King Hussein of Jordan met Crown Prince Abdullah in Saudi Arabia. In June President Saleh of Yemen visited the kingdom, accompanied by a high-level delegation. This was the first official Yemeni visit since February 1990. Meetings of the joint committees continued into 1996, and in July the two countries signed a border security agreement.

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Government Saudi Arabia Table of Contents ABD AL AZIZ IBN ABD AR RAHMAN AL SAUD, who had begun conquering territory in the Arabian Peninsula in 1902, proclaimed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932. It was then, and remained sixty years later, the only nation to have been named after its ruling family. Fahd ibn Abd al Aziz Al Saud, who in 1992 had been ruling for ten years, was the fourth son of Abd al Aziz to become king since his father's death in 1953. Although the Al Saud kings ruled as absolute monarchs, their power was tempered by Islamic law (sharia) and by the custom of reaching consensus on political issues among the scores of direct adult male descendants of Abd al Aziz. Islam was a pervasive social and political force in Saudi Arabia. Because there was no separation of religion and state, the political role of religious scholars, or ulama, was second in importance to that of the ruling Al Saud family. The close association between the ulama, advocating the strict Islamic interpretations of Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab, and the Al Saud originated in the eighteenth century and provided the dynasty with its primary source of legitimacy. The ulama acted as a conservative force in maintaining the traditional social and political values that characterized Saudi Arabia in the early 1990s. STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT POLITICS MEDIA FOREIGN POLICY ... Saudi Arabia Table of Contents Source:

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