Saudi Arabia
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Boundary: Natural Earth, public domain · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- SA
- ISO alpha-3
- SAU
- ISO numeric
- 682
- FIPS 10-4
- SA
- GeoNames ID
- 102358
Key facts
- Capital
- Riyadh
- Area
- 1,960,582 km²
- Population
- 33,699,947
- Currency
- Rial (SAR)
- Calling code
- +966
- Top-level domain
- .sa
- Official languages
- ar-SA
Continent
- Name
- Asia
- Code
- AS
- In this dataset
- 51 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 25
- Longitude
- 45
- Min latitude
- 16.37095774900007
- Min longitude
- 34.57276451900009
- Max latitude
- 32.12134796200006
- Max longitude
- 55.63756473800004
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/SA?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 1960582,
"capital": "Riyadh",
"continent_code": "AS",
"currency_code": "SAR",
"iso3_code": "SAU",
"iso_code": "SA",
"name": "Saudi Arabia",
"population": 33699947
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/SA/regions/v1/cities?country=SA/v1/postal-codes?country=SA/v1/timezones?country=SA
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- المملكة العربية السعودية
- Chinese
- 沙特阿拉伯
- English
- Saudi Arabia
- French
- Arabie saoudite
- German
- Saudi-Arabien
- Hindi
- सऊदी अरब
- Italian
- Arabia Saudita
- Japanese
- サウジアラビア
- Korean
- 사우디아라비아
- Portuguese
- Arábia Saudita
- Russian
- Саудовская Аравия
- Spanish
- Arabia Saudí
- Total language variants
- 143
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Asia/Riyadh | UTC+03:00 | UTC+03:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- #####
- Pattern
^(\d{5})$
First-level administrative regions
- Mecca Region
- Riyadh Region
- Eastern Province
- 'Asir Region
- Medina Region
- Jazan Region
- Al-Qassim Region
- Tabuk Region
- Ha'il Region
- Al Jawf Region
- Al Bahah Region
- Najran Region
- Northern Borders Region
13 of 13 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Jeddah | 4,697,000 |
| Riyadh | 4,205,961 |
| Makkah | 1,578,722 |
| Madinah | 1,300,000 |
| Dammam | 1,252,523 |
| Sulţānah | 946,697 |
| Buraydah | 745,353 |
| Ta’if | 688,693 |
| Tabuk | 667,000 |
| Ha'il | 605,930 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 5,119
- First-level regions
- 13
- Postal codes
- 0
- Name languages
- 143
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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