Saudi Arabia , [d] officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( KSA ), [e] is a country in Western Asia . It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula , and has a land area of about 2,150,000 km 2 (830,000 sq mi), making it the fifth-largest country in Asia , the second-largest in the Arab world , and the largest in Western Asia and the Middle East . It is bordered by the Red Sea to the west; Jordan , Iraq , and Kuwait to the north; the Persian Gulf , Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to the east; Oman to the southeast; and Yemen to the south. Bahrain is an island country off the east coast. The Gulf of Aqaba in the northwest separates Saudi Arabia from Egypt . Saudi Arabia is the only country with a coastline along both the Red Sea and the Persian ...
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