• Location: Middle East, bordering the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea, north of Yemen
• Geographic coordinates: 25 00 N, 45 00 E
• Map references: Middle East
• Area:
  
  Total: 1,960,582 sq km
  
  Land: 1,960,582 sq km
  
  Water: 0 sq km
• Area - comparative: slightly more than one-fifth the size of the US
• Land boundaries:
  
  Total: 4,415 km
  
  Border countries: Iraq 814 km, Jordan 728 km, Kuwait 222 km, Oman 676 km,
  
  Qatar 60 km, UAE 457 km, Yemen 1,458 km
• Coastline: 2,640 km
• Maritime claims:
  
  Contiguous zone: 18 nm
  
  Continental shelf: not specified
  
  Territorial sea: 12 nm
• Climate: harsh, dry desert with great extremes of temperature
• Terrain: mostly uninhabited, sandy desert
• Elevation extremes:
  
  Lowest point: Persian Gulf 0 m
  
  Highest point: Jabal Sawda' 3,133 m
• Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, gold, copper