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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Arabic: المملكة العربية السعودية, al-Mamlaka
al-ʻArabiyya as-Suʻūdiyya) is the largest country of the Arabian Peninsula.
It is bordered by Jordan on the northwest, Iraq on the north and northeast,
Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on
the southeast, and Yemen on the south. The Persian Gulf lies to the
northeast and the Red Sea to its west. It has an estimated population of
27.6 million, and its size is approximately 2,150,000 square km (830,000
square miles).
The Kingdom is sometimes called "The Land of The Two Holy Mosques" in
reference to Mecca and Medina, the two holiest places in Islam. In English,
it is most commonly referred to as Saudi Arabia (pronounced /ˈsɒdɪ/ or /ˈsaʊdɪ
əˈɹeɪbɪə/). The Kingdom was founded by Abdul-Aziz bin Saud, whose efforts
began in 1902 when he captured the Al-Saud’s ancestral home of Riyadh, and
culminated in 1932 with the proclamation, and recognition of the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia is the world's leading petroleum exporter and petroleum exports
fuel the Saudi economy. Oil accounts for more than 90 percent of exports
and nearly 75 percent of government revenues, facilitating the creation of a
welfare state, which the government has found difficult to fund during
periods of low oil prices. Human rights groups such as Amnesty
International and Human Rights Watch have repeatedly expressed concern about
the state of human rights in Saudi Arabia, although these concerns have been
dismissed by the Saudi government.
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