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Saudi Arabia: map and facts
Saudi Arabia is in Western Asia. It has about 37 million people (2025), the 43rd largest population. It covers 2,149,690 km², the 12th largest by area. That is about 17 people per km². Its highest point is Jabal Sawda, at 2,999 m.
Facts
- Population: 36,973,555 (2025, World Bank)
- Area: 2,149,690 km² (2024, World Bank). This figure covers a different area from the one this map shows: as drawn, about 1,930,000 km².
- Capital: Riyadh
- Highest point: Jabal Sawda, 2,999 m (Gilbertson & Gilbertson's GPS surveys of national high points)
- Forest: 1.3% of the land (2024, World Bank)
Mountains and landscapes
Its highest peaks:
- Jabal Sawda: 2,999 m (its highest point)
- Jabal al Lawz: 2,580 m
- Jebel Jar: 2,300 m
Mountain ranges: Asir Mountains, Hejaz Mountains and Tuwayq Mountains.
Plateaus, plains, deserts and other regions: Arabian Peninsula, Rub' al Khali, Syrian Desert, An Nafud Desert, Hasa Plain and Tihamah.
Land
Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): bare ground 95.9%, open shrubland 2.5%, grassland 1.1%.
Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): plateaus 58.4%, plains 23.1%, hills 14.4%, mountains 4.1%.
Forests covered 1.3% of its land in 2024, the same as in 1990 (World Bank).
Minerals and fuels
- World #3 in oil among the countries EIA lists (2025)
- World #4 in sulfur among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #6 in phosphate among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #8 in bauxite among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #9 in natural gas among the countries EIA lists (2024)
Neighbours
Saudi Arabia shares land borders with Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Yemen on this map.
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Sources
India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.
- Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
- GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
- Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Credit: U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 data release (doi:10.5066/P1WKQ63T). Terms
- Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (2026-09-03). Terms
- Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
- Some figures corrected by Make Me Smarter from published references: Australian Bureau of Statistics; Atlas of Canada; CIA World Factbook (archived); FAO; FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025; FSM Statistics; GeoNames; Gilbertson & Gilbertson's GPS surveys of national high points; INEGI (Mexico); Peaklist.org; PeakVisor; Government of the Pitcairn Islands; Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program; Statistics Finland; UN Demographic Yearbook; UN World Population Prospects 2024; Wikidata; Wikipedia.
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