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Official Name: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Al Mamlakah al Aribiyah as Suudiyah)
Capital: Riyadh
Population: 23,513,330 includes 5,360,526 non-national (July 2002 est.)
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Green — the traditional color of Islam — with white Arabic script (translated as There is no God but God; Muhammad is His Messenger) above a white horizontal saber |
National holiday: Unification of the kingdom, 23 September (1932)
Constitution: governed according to Shari'a (Islamic law); the basic law that articultes the government's rights and repsonsibilities was introduced in 1993
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