Saudi Arabia

noun

1. a kingdom in N and central Arabia, including Hejaz, Nejd, and dependencies. About 600,000 sq. mi. (1,554,000 sq. km). : Riyadh.

Saudi Arabia

/ ˈsaʊ-; ˈsɔːdɪ /

noun

1. a kingdom in SW Asia, occupying most of the Arabian peninsula between the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea: founded in 1932 by Ibn Saud, who united Hejaz and Nejd; consists mostly of desert plateau; large reserves of petroleum and natural gas. Official language: Arabic. Official religion: (Sunni) Muslim. Currency: riyal. Capital: Riyadh (royal and administrative), Jiddah (diplomatic). Pop: 26 939 583 (2013 est). Area: 2 260 353 sq km (872 722 sq miles)

Saudi Arabia

1. Monarchy occupying most of the Arabian Peninsula , where it is bordered by Jordan , Iraq , and Kuwait to the north; the Persian Gulf , Qatar , and the United Arab Emirates to the east; Oman to the east and south; Yemen to the south; and the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba to the west. Its capital and largest city is Riyadh.

Notes

Saudi Arabia sits on at least one-fourth of the world's known oil reserves, a geological gift that makes this otherwise resource-poor, desert nation very rich and important to the industrial nations of the world.

Saudi Arabia is the location of Mecca (see also Mecca ) and Medina, the two most holy places in the world for Muslims, pilgrimage sites equivalent to the Catholic Rome and the Christian and Jewish Jerusalem (see also Jerusalem ).

Saudi Arabia became the major staging ground for United Nations forces seeking to expel Iraq from Kuwait in 1990–1991. ( See Persian Gulf War .)

Overwhelmingly Muslim , the country is ruled by a royal family according to conservative Muslim law.

Example Sentences

The US also ended its support for Riyadh’s offensive operations in Yemen, which began during the Obama administration, though the US military will still help protect Saudi Arabia against regional threats.

From Vox

On Wednesday evening, Lina al-Hathloul posted a screengrab of a video call she had just ended with her sister, women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul, whose face beamed back across the six-inch display from Saudi Arabia.

From Time

When I started, I was conducting women-only training sessions in Saudi Arabia.

From Ozy

He was deployed to Saudi Arabia and Kyrgyzstan during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and was honorably discharged in 2003, according to a Guard spokesman.

From ProPublica

Google will start selling its cloud-computing services in Saudi Arabia through a deal with oil producer Aramco, a controversial move by the internet giant.

From Fortune

The most notorious states are Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, where death is an acceptable legal remedy.

From The Daily Beast

Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, primarily produces petroleum.

From The Daily Beast

On top of oil, the United States produces significantly more natural gas than Saudi Arabia.

From The Daily Beast

Imagine if hackers from Saudi Arabia said that any TV station in America broadcasting feminists and gays would be attacked?

From The Daily Beast

Qatar is just a little spit of land that looks like a polyp on edge of Saudi Arabia.

From The Daily Beast

If he thinks that by targeting innocent civilians in Israel and Saudi Arabia, that he will gain an advantage--he is dead wrong.

From Project Gutenberg