Description:
Saudi Arabia is a desert country encompassing most of the Arabian Peninsula, with Red Sea and Persian Gulf coastlines. Known as the birthplace of Islam, it’ s home to the religion’ s 2 most sacred mosques: Masjid al-Haram, in Makkah, destination of the annual Hajj pilgrimage, and Medina’ s Masjid e-Nabawi, burial site of the prophet Muhammad. Riyadh, the capital, is a skyscraper-filled metropolis.