Saudi Arabia

Facts

What the numbers say about Saudi Arabia

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 8.84× the size of Saudi Arabia.
• Saudi Arabia ranks 14th of 239 by area but only 45th of 237 by population: it holds fewer people than its size suggests.
• At 17 people per km², Saudi Arabia is the 157th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Saudi Arabia lies at 24°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.2×.
• Laid out flat, Saudi Arabia's main territory stretches about 1,760 km north to south and 2,120 km east to west.
• Our measured 1,922,000 km² is 15% below Wikidata's official figure of 2,250,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.

How Saudi Arabia measures up

Saudi Arabia holds 6.2% of the land area and 0.7% of the people of the 51 countries listed for Asia. In Western Asia it is the 1st largest of 19.

Where Saudi Arabia sits

• Saudi Arabia's centre lies at 24.1°N, 44.7°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 2,680 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 16°N to 32°N, about 1,750 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Saudi Arabia had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Saudi Arabia would have 2.41 billion people. It has 33.0 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Saudi Arabia would have 7.1 million people. It has 33.0 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 139.0 million.

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