Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Riyadh
- Region
- Asia, Western Asia
- Population
- 36,973,555 (2025)
- Area
- 1,960,582 km²
- Currency
- Saudi riyal (SAR)
- Languages
- Arabic
- Calling code
- +966
- Internet domain
- .sa, .السعودية
- ISO codes
- SA, SAU, 682
- Time zone
- UTC+3:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ##### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Saudi Arabia covers about 1,960,582 square kilometres. By area it ranks 15th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Mexico and a little larger than Indonesia. It shares a land border with 7 neighbours: United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Yemen. Its centre lies at about 25° north, 45° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 37 million people live in Saudi Arabia (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 43rd most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.45 percent of the world's people. On average there are 19 people to each square kilometre. About 85 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 79 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Arabic. A person from Saudi Arabia is called Saudi Arabian.
Money and economy
The currency is the Saudi riyal (code SAR, symbol ر.س). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 1.28 trillion (2025), which is about US$ 34,537 for each person (2025).
Time
Saudi Arabia uses one time zone, UTC+3:00 (Asia/Riyadh). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Jeddah | 4,697,000 |
| Riyadh | 4,205,961 |
| Makkah | 1,578,722 |
| Madinah | 1,300,000 |
| Dammam | 1,252,523 |
| Sulţānah | 946,697 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Western Asia
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Georgia, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.