Saudi Arabia covers 2,149,690 km² on the new Equal Earth world map, 1.6% of all land on Earth. It ranks 13th of 237 countries worldwide and 4th in Asia. At 24° latitude the old Mercator map inflates area by about 1.2×, drawing it closer to 2,579,198 km², a difference of roughly 20%.
For scale, Saudi Arabia is roughly the same size as Greenland (2,166,086 km²).
You could fit 3 of Myanmar inside Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia: key figures
| True area | 2,149,690 km² |
| World rank | 13th |
| Share of world land | 1.6% |
| Rank in Asia | 4th / 52 |
| Old-map (Mercator) inflation | 1.2× |
| Apparent size on Mercator | 2,579,198 km² |
Largest countries in Asia (true area)
| Asia | |
|---|
| China | 9,596,960 km² |
| India | 3,287,263 km² |
| Kazakhstan | 2,724,910 km² |
| Saudi Arabia (this country) | 2,149,690 km² |
| Indonesia | 1,904,569 km² |
| Iran | 1,648,195 km² |