Egypt Gallery

Map of the Ancient Persian Empire

Map of the Ancient Persian Empire, encompassing Greece to the north west, Arabia to the south east, Egypt and Libya to the south west and deep in the Caucasus in the north east. Date: 1798

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Map of Saudi Arabia with Flag

The map shows Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a desert country in southwestern Asia (Middle East) that occupies most of the Arabian Peninsula.
The kingdom is bounded by the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea in the west and the Persian Gulf in the east. Border countries are Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Saudi Arabia shares maritime boundaries with Bahrain, Egypt, Eritrea, Iran, and Sudan.
The country is the largest Arab state with a land area of more than two million km?; compared, the sheikdom is about four times the size of France, or somewhat larger than one quarter the size of the contiguous United States