Map of Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 25.0° N, 45.0° E. It shares land borders with 7 countries — Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Yemen — and also has its own coastline. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Saudi Arabia is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Saudi Arabia shares land frontiers with the following 7 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Saudi Arabia covers about 2,149,690 km² (830,000 sq mi). That makes it the 12th-largest country in the world by area and the 4th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 45 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 35,300,280, the 42nd-largest in the world and the 17th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.7% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Saudi Arabia has an average population density of about 16 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 17th by population and 4th by area.

The seat of government is Riyadh, and the official currency is the Saudi riyal (SAR, ر.س), and the main official language is Arabic. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+03:00.

Saudi Arabia carries the ISO country codes SA and SAU, dials on the international calling code +966 and uses the .sa, .السعودية internet domain.

Saudi Arabia shares its land borders with 7 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Iraq (capital Baghdad, about 46,118,793 people), Yemen (capital Sana'a, about 32,684,503 people), Jordan (capital Amman, about 11,734,000 people), United Arab Emirates (capital Abu Dhabi, about 11,294,243 people), Oman (capital Muscat, about 5,343,630 people), Kuwait (capital Kuwait City, about 4,881,254 people) and Qatar (capital Doha, about 3,173,024 people).

By area, Saudi Arabia is larger than 7 of these neighbours and smaller than 0 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 25.0° N, 45.0° E and opens at zoom level 4, framing Saudi Arabia within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Riyadh. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Saudi Arabia lies about 2,775 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Saudi Arabia keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+03:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +03:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Saudi riyal (SAR, ر.س).

The official language is Arabic, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +966 and websites commonly use the .sa, .السعودية internet domain.

In short, Saudi Arabia is a coastal country in Asia, sharing land borders with 7 countries. Its capital is Riyadh. Saudi Arabia has a population of about 35,300,280 and covers around 2,149,690 km² (830,000 sq mi), ranking it 42nd in the world by population and 12th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Saudi Arabia.

The flag of Saudi Arabia has a green field, at the center of which is an Arabic inscription — the Shahada — in white above a white horizontal sabre with its tip pointed to the hoist side of the field.

The flag of Saudi Arabia is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.