The Arabic kingdom Saudi Arabia

The capital:             Riyadh

The inhabitants enumerated:             23,513,330 breath of air (estimate of July 2002)

The language:             [aale'rbyt]

The sweat:             The Arab (90%), Asian (10%)

The climate:             Pull hot and dry. The snow creates on high mountain far about coast

Regime of the governing:             The monarchist

The economy                        

- the currency:             The Saudi riyal

- [aalmwaaryd]:             Blistered, undulation, grains and bee eaters

The religion:             The Islam (100%)

History

The tribes of the Arabian Peninsula were united for the first time under Mohammed, in the early 7th century AD. The peninsula came under Turkish control in the 18th century. In 1902 Abdul al-Aziz Ibn SAUD captured Riyadh and set out on a 30-year campaign to unify the Arabian peninsula. In 1932 he founded Saudi Arabia, of which he was both king (malik) and spiritual leader (imam). In the 1930s, the discovery of oil transformed the country. Following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, Saudi Arabia accepted the Kuwaiti royal family and 400,000 refugees while allowing Western and Arab troops to deploy on its soil for the liberation of Kuwait the following year. A burgeoning population, aquifer depletion, and an economy largely dependent on petroleum output and prices are all major governmental concerns.