SAUDI ARABIA-----THE LAND OF SAND

             

           SAUDI ARABIA – THE LAND OF SAND

Saudi Arabia is a large country. It occupies most of the Arabian Peninsula with the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba to the west and the Persian Gulf to the east bordered on the north by Jordan, Iraq and Kuwait, on the south by Yemen and Oman and on the east by the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain. Saudi Arabia contains the world’s largest continuous sand desert, the Rub Al – Khali or Empty Quarter. Its oil region lies primarily in the eastern province along the Persian Gulf. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest country in the Arabian Peninsula. It occupies an area about the size of the United States.

This region is fairly barren and harsh with salt flats, gravel plains and sand deserts. There are a few man-made lakes but no permanent rivers. Rub Al-Khali in the south is the largest sand desert in the world and in the southwest; there are mountain ranges of over 9,000 feet.