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Saudi Arabia

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Saudi Arabia is the desert core of the Arab world and the birthplace of Islam, holding its two holiest cities; it sits on about a fifth of the world's oil and, in its south, on the Rub' al Khali, the Empty Quarter, the largest continuous sand desert on Earth. Long closed to ordinary visitors, it…

The Eastern Province & the Empty Quarter1 place

The Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)Nature · ●●●●○The largest continuous sand desert on earth, an ocean of dunes hundreds of metres high stretching to the horizon across…

The Hejaz (the holy cities & AlUla)1 place

AlUla & HegraPoint · ●●●●○Saudi Arabia's answer to Petra: monumental tombs carved into desert sandstone outcrops by the same Nabataean people…

The Najd (Riyadh)1 place

Diriyah & RiyadhTown · ●●●○○On the edge of the capital, the restored mud-brick town where the Saudi state was born, a warren of earthen palaces and…