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ESL-156 Culture Studies Instructor Lyra Riabov
Presenters Mohsen Badhdah Ruba Saqat Ali
Almusa Nouf Alsharif
??????? ??????? ????????The Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia
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Introduction

• Cities
• Famous People
• Tradition

• Location
• Geography
• Size
• Population

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Location

• South West Asia.
• Surrounded by
• - YEMEN.
• - OMAN.
• - U.A.E.
• - QATAR.
• - KUWAIT.
• - IRAQ.
• - JORDAN.

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Geography

• The Empty Quarter (Al-Rub Al Khali) desert.
• The Western highlands.
• The Northern Mountains and plateaus.
• Widespread Mountain and desert valleys.
• The Eastern plateaus and plains.
• The "Najd" plateaus, Central Region.
• The "Tihama" plains, South West region.

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Size Population

• 2,149,690 square kilometers.
• Population
• of 25,731,776

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Cities
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Riyadh

• The capital city.
• Population
•   close to
• 7 million people.
• Riyadh is the place
• that most of headquarters of companies and
  government departments...etc

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Jeddah

• Population
• over 3.4 million.
• Most popular of
• Tourist place.

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Holy cities
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Makkah
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Madinah
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Famous People
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Alwaleed Bin Talal

• Business man.
• World's 5th
• richest man, 2005.
• He  has held major investments in AOL
• Time Warner, Apple, 
• Citigroup, MCI, 
• Motorola, and News Corporation.

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Hayat Sindi

•  Ph.D. in biotechnology from Cambridge
  University. 
• Hayat Sindi First
• Arab woman to win PopTech fellowship.
• PopTech, chose Sindi,
• a nanosecond technology researcher at Harvard
  University, to be its ambassador to the Middle
  East.

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Tradition
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Tradition
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