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Saudi Arabia The Characteristics of Saudi Arabia By Lara David 8D

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Page 1: Saudi Arabia

Saudi ArabiaThe Characteristics of Saudi Arabia

By Lara David 8D

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Physical Location

--Saudi Arabia is the largest country on the Arabian peninsula

--It is north of Yemen and it borders on the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea

--Land= 2,149,690 sq km

--Water= 0 sq km

--The most area is unpopulated desert

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Desert• Most of Saudi Arabia is covered by desert. Most of the desert is sandy unlike the desert in Qatar, which is rocky.

•There are huge sand dunes and many activities such as dune bashing are organized. Nomads live in Saudi’s deserts but most of them are not populated by people.

•95% of the country is desert.

•Rub' Al Khali (The Empty

Quarter) is the largest sand

desert in the world.

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Climate• Saudi Arabia has a harsh climate

• Seeing as most of the country is a dry desert, there are extreme temperatures differences

• In the summer, the climate reaches up to 50 degrees and in winter it is mild

• Humidity can reach up to 100% near the coastline

• Often, in the early summer, a strong sand-laden winds called Shamal blow through the country with up to 30 km/h

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Oil

• Oil is the most important resource and export of Saudi

Arabia. The whole economy and society profit from this

resource and many things such as infrastructure and

desalinization plants are funded by the income of the

exportation of oil.

• Saudi Arabia has 260 million barrels of oil reserves

• This equals around 24% of the world’s total oil reserves!

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EconomyThe economy of Saudi Arabia mainly builds on the oil

export. 90% of the country‘s incomes comes from the oil

industry. Before oil was discovered, the country survived from

farming and exporting

Desalinization camps

are crucial and are

funded by the country‘s

income

This graph shows the

monthly export of oil

from Saudi Arabia.

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Example- Economy

An example of Saudi Arabian economy is the large impact that

oil has on it. Without the oil export and is related industries,

Saudi Arabia would not be at the standard they are now. The

whole country depends on the oil for an income, infrastructure

and a developing economy. The economy is also affected by

the masses of expatriates that have come to Saudi because of

the oil boom and export. For example the oil company Aramco

brings yearly many thousands of labor workers to help with the

project. This affects

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Social- IslamIslam is the major religion in Saudi

Arabia and the whole life of the

civilization are dependant on the

religious procedures such as

praying, Ramadan, and the

celebration days such as Eid Al Fitr.

The society changes timings and

dates to fit the religious traditions

and this affects everyone in the

country. Praying occurs five times a

day and you will often hear the call

for prayer from the mosques.

The holy city of Mecca

is in the West. It is the

center or Islam.

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Social- Women

• In Saudi Arabia, women have little\no rights. They are not allowed to drive, go in public without a husband or veil and they can not vote.

• Many people are trying to change this and they are demonstrating against the government

• In the future, huge differences will have to occur in this issue seeing as many countries are already protesting against Saudi because of miss-treatment of the human rights

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Example- Islam

A very strong example of how Islam affects the society is the

holy month of Ramadan. During this month, Muslims refrain

from food and drink from dawn to sunset. This traditions

affects life and living in Saudi Arabia during this month. Many

people come later to work and they leave earlier seeing as

they are tired and have no energy. This affects the economy

because a lot less work is being done and researches show

us that during Ramadan, less export occurs which is harmful

for the economy. The driving on the streets is affected and

drinking or eating in public is forbidden.

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Government and Politics

• The country is governed by the royal family and the king and leader is called Abdallah bin Abd al-Aziz

• The type of government is called a monarchy

• The king of Saudi Arabia may ask important tribal leaders for their advice when making difficult decisions

• The citizens can only vote the ministers seeing as the leading role will always stay in the hands of the king

• Women are not allowed to vote

• The Qur'an is considered the constitution for Saudi Arabian law

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Example- PoliticalAn example from the governmental and political point of view

of Saudi Arabia would be the power that the king has. He is

not only the ruler of the whole country, he has also become

one of the richest people in the world because of the oil export

in Saudi Arabia. In most country‘s the king can not make the

law alone but in Saudi he can make and change every

decision that he does not agree with or like!

This has had several affects on the country

seeing as they have no influence on the law

or government. Many people are not happy

with this.

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Analysis- EconomyThe reason why I chose the impact of oil on the economy

for my example was because the whole country depends

on it. Without it, the country would not have the wealth

and power it has today! The economy is booming which

allows the government to build desalinization camps,

which are expensive, and support agriculture. This way

the whole country benefits from the large oil reserves.

Still, sometimes the money goes into the wrong hands

which is not fair on the society. For example, the people

that are highly ranked, often receive money even though

they did not contribute anything.

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Analysis- Islam\SocialThe reason why I chose Ramadan as my example was

because it is a time where the whole country is affected

even if they are not Muslim. This can mean negative and

positive changes. The negative effect is the fact that the

country‘s economy suffers because of less work timings.

Also, the driving is more hectic seeing as all the people

can think about food. But on the other hand, the whole

country is in a cultural highlight and are enjoying their

holy month. This is definitely the time of the year that

impacts the society in the strongest way: both culturally

and economically.

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Analysis- Government The reason why I chose the power that the king has as my

example is because he is the person in Saudi Arabia that

has control of everything. This has a major impact on the

country because this man can change, add or eliminate any

project or issue in the whole country. This means he can

make any changes to anything he wants. For example when

there is an oil project, the king may make any changes and

often he gets a share of the money when he contributed

nothing. This can lead to problems because any do not

agree with the fact that the king gets credit for many projects

that he did not lead.

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Bibliography

Pictureshttp://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=5769&rendTypeId=4

http://www.aiitc.org/meka.jpg

http://www.mideastweb.org/saudia.jpg

http://www.google.com

Informationhttps://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sa.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_arabia