Saudi Arabia
Western Asia · Riyadh
Everything Mapfold knows about Saudi Arabia, and the 3 answers that pick it out of all 192 countries the game can hide.
Saudi Arabia in figures
- Capital
- Riyadh
- Region
- Western Asia
- Area
- 2,149,690 km²
- Population
- 36,973,555
- Density
- 17.2 /km²
- Land neighbours
- 7
- Coast
- Has a coast
- Highest point
- 3,133 m
- Mean temperature
- 25.9 °C
- Life expectancy
- 79 years
- GDP per head
- US$ 34,537
- Urban
- 84.6 %
- Forest
- 0.5 %
Saudi Arabia in Mapfold
Every question in the game, and what Saudi Arabia answers to it. This is not a fact about Saudi Arabia so much as a fact about where it sits among the other 191 — which is the only kind of fact a deduction game runs on.
The shortest way to find Saudi Arabia
3 answers are enough to leave Saudi Arabia alone in the daylight, starting from all 192. Taking the largest available cut each time, which is what the game scores you against:
- 1
It spans more than 20° of longitude.
17 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 2
It averages warmer than 22 °C all year.
5 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 3
GDP per head is above $12,000.
1 STILL IN DAYLIGHT
What makes Saudi Arabia unusual
It spans more than 20° of longitude.
17 of 192 countriesA tropic runs through it.
27 of 192 countriesIt is in Asia.
46 of 192 countries
Every Mapfold question, answered
All 35 questions Mapfold can put to the world, ordered by how much hearing this answer would narrow it.
- LOCATION
It spans more than 20° of longitude.
17 of 192 countries - LOCATION
A tropic runs through it.
27 of 192 countries - REGION
It is in Asia.
46 of 192 countries - SIZE
It covers more than 500,000 km².
51 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than 50 people live there per square kilometre.
59 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It borders five or more countries.
60 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than 70% of people live in towns and cities.
73 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
GDP per head is above $12,000.
78 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Life expectancy there is above 75.
85 of 192 countries - NATURE
Less than 30% of it is forest.
92 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than ten million people live there.
95 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It lies east of 20°E.
97 of 192 countries - CLIMATE
It averages warmer than 22 °C all year.
104 of 192 countries - SIZE
It covers more than 100,000 km².
107 of 192 countries - NATURE
Its highest point is above 2,000 m.
118 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It runs wider than it is tall.
126 of 192 countries - SIZE
It is bigger than Belgium.
135 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
It is thinner than 150 people per square kilometre.
136 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It borders at least two countries.
138 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Africa.
138 of 192 countries - CLIMATE
It averages over 12 °C all year.
143 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Europe.
148 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It touches the sea.
149 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It lies in the northern hemisphere.
154 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It has at least one land neighbour.
155 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than a million people live there.
156 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in the Americas.
157 of 192 countries - LOCATION
Its centre lies south of 45°N.
160 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than fifty million people live there.
161 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
GDP per head is below $40,000.
163 of 192 countries - NATURE
Less than 60% of it is forest.
166 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
It does not use the euro.
167 of 192 countries - NATURE
Its highest point is over 500 m.
171 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Oceania.
179 of 192 countries - LOCATION
The equator does not cross it.
181 of 192 countries
How Saudi Arabia compares
- Bigger than Mexico
- Smaller than DR Congo
- More people than Poland
- Fewer people than Uzbekistan
- 12th largest of 192 by area
- 43rd by population, of 192
Which countries border Saudi Arabia
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