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The kingdom of Saudi Arabia is almost entirely the creation of King Ibn Saud (1882–1953). A descendant of Wahhabi leaders, he seized Riyadh in 1901 and set himself up as leader of the Arab nationalist movement. By 1906 he had established Wahhabi dominance in Nejd and conquered Hejaz in 1924–1925. The Hejaz and Nejd regions were merged to form the kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932, which was an absolute monarchy ruled by sharia. A year later the region of Asir was incorporated into the kingdom.
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The kingdom of Saudi Arabia occupies four-fifths of the Arabian Peninsula, with coastlines on the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. Area: 2,240,000 sq km (865,000 sq mi). Pop. (1995 est.): 17,880,000. Cap.: Riyadh. Monetary unit: Saudi Arabian riyal, with (Oct. 6, 1995) an official rate of 3.75 riyals to U.S. $1 (5.93 riyals = £1 sterling).
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Logica today announced that the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) has selected it to provide a new payments network solution to enable electronic funds transfers in the Kingdom. The new initiative, which is a multi-million dollar commitment and will be at the heart of SAMA's business, will be supplied, implemented, and supported by Logica in partnership with Oasis Technology.
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Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, al-Mamlaka al-`Arabiya as-Sa`udiya. 25,795,938. National or official language: Standard Arabic. Literacy rate: 38%, 50% men. Also includes Bengali (15,000), Egyptian Spoken Arabic (300,000), English (60,000), French (22,000), Indonesian (37,000), Italian (22,000), Kabardian (17,000), Korean (66,000), Somali (42,727), Sudanese Spoken Arabic (86,000), Tagalog (700,000), Urdu (382,000), Uyghur (5,919), Western Cham (100), Western Farsi (102,000), Chinese (58,000), from India (120,000), from the Philippines (700,000), others from Nigeria. Information mainly from M. Bateson 1967; T. M. Johnstone 1987; B. Comrie 1987; A. S. Kaye 1988; C. Holes 1990; B. Ingham 1994.
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia occupies four fifths of the Arabian Peninsula. Its area is approximately 830,000 square miles (2,149,690 square kilometers). Saudi Arabia is separated from Egypt, The Sudan, and Eritrea by the Red Sea to the west; from Iran by the Persian Gulf to the east; and from Bahrain by the Gulf of Bahrain... to the east.
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has repeatedly and unequivocally condemned terrorism and has affirmed its full support and cooperation in the international coalition to combat terrorist organizations and activities. Saudi Arabia strongly condemns all acts of terrorism, which contravene all religious values and human civilized concepts. The Kingdom has maintained a steadfast position condemning all forms of terrorism, and its cooperation with the international community to combat it is ongoing.
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