Labels:text | map | screenshot | font | diagram | number | atlas OCR: SAUDI ARABIA Official Name: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Capital: Riyadh Population: 15.9 million Currency: Saudi riyal Official language: Arabic OCCUPYING MOST OF THE Mecca - Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia covers an area as large as 1 Western Europe. Over 95% of its JORDAN 0 land is desert, with the most arid KUWAIT Persian Gulf part, known as the "Empty Quarter," An Nafud or Rub al Khali, in the southeast. Ad Dahua' EGYPT Saudi Arabia has the world's largest oil and gas reserves as well as major BAHRAIN refining and petrochemicals QATAR industries. It includes Islam's holiest Al Madittala cities, Medina and Mecca, visited each RIYADH- UNITED ARAB year by two million Muslims performing EMIRATES the pilgrimage known as the "haj." The Al- Saud family have been Saudi Arabia's Jiddah o+ Mecca absolutist rulers since 1932. - RED SEA RUB . AL KHALI 0 N E E M
