السعودية أو المملكة العربية السعودية هي أكبر دولة من دول شبه الجزيرة العربية، يحدها شمالا كل من العراق والاردن والكويت ، وشرقا الامارات العربية المتحدة و قطر و الخليج العربي، وعُمان من الجنوب الشرقي ، واليمن من الجنوب يوجد فيها أماكن دينية مقدسة للمسلمين كالمسجد الحرام أو الكعبة المشرفة وهي قبلة المسلمين والتي يقع في مكة و المسجد النبوي فى المدينة .
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest country on the Arabian Peninsula. It borders ► Jordan on the northwest, ► Iraq on the north and northeast, ► Kuwait, ► Qatar, ► Bahrain, and the ► United Arab Emirates on the east, ► Oman on the southeast, and ► Yemen on the south, with the Persian Gulf with ► Iran to its northeast and the Red Sea with ► Egypt► Sudan and to its west. It is called "the land of the two holy mosques", a reference to Mecca and Medina, Islam's two holiest places.
This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Saudi Arabia, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Saudi Arabia.
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