Kingdom+of+Saudi+Arabia

By Laura Barbadillo. toc =**My country facts**=

**Oficial name of the country**
It oficial name is Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

**People**
The inhabitants of the country are called Saudi Arabians. Their oficial lenguage is the Arabic,but English its also used in business,health care,hotel industry,commerce,etc. The most practiced religion is Islam. In Saudi Arabia its forbidden eating pork or drinking alcohol, but they like to eat khobz(a type of bread) with all the meals, they also eat lamb, grilled chicken, falafel or hummus. Arabic tea its also famous and they use it in both ocations formal and informal.

**Goverment**
The king of the country its called King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is a monarchy and there are no recognized political parties or national elections. Saudi Arabia gained its independence from England in 1927 but the country was oficially created in 1932. The borders with The United Emirates and Oman are not preaisely defined or marked, so the exact size of the country remains unknown. The Saudi goverments estimate is 2,217,949 square kilometers.

**Geography**
Saudi Arabia is located in Asia, in the west. The nations that border the country are Jordan,Iraq,Yemen,Oman,Kuwait and Quatar. Talking about Saudi Arabia landscape, On-Nafud its a dessert with 57000 square kilometers another dessert its the Rub al-Jali. In the middle it has a big plain, on the east mountains. There are also mountains on the north-east or south-east It has a dry clime, with high temperatures in summer on most of the areas. It has very high temperatures in the north and in the center. In the south the temperatures are moderated. In winter temperatures are moderated and at night are very cold sometimes below creo.

**Economy**
Saudi Arabia its the highest producer of oil in the world, that fact its the main source of money for the country and also this was very sourprising for me. The employement rate of the country its 11.6%.

**Alliances and enemies**
In 1936 it formed alliances with Iraq and Egipt. It enemie is Iran.

**Prediction**
In general trafficking with animals in my country do not benefit anyone, because they have very strict rules with that topic. Anyways there are allways peolple who try to sell protected species. The trafficking affects animals, the people that sell them, the people that buy them and the rest of the people in the country. Negative affected: animals, they are in extremely bad conditions and they extinguish. People who sell the animals, the ilegal traffic of animals is forbidden and penalized by law. People who by the animals, they also could get involved in legal problems. The rest of the people living on the country, to be a big ilegal seller of protected animals give very bad fame to the country and to the governors of it. Positive affected: people who sell the animals, they recive big amounts of money from them. People who buy them, they get exotic animals and the mayority of the times they sell them in occident and get enormous amounts of money. Developed countries would provide money to stop the trafficking of animals, because they are the countries that have enough resources to stop this dissasterous fact. My country thinks CITIES is a fabulous organization to help stop animal trafficking. Countries can lower the demand of wildlife on the market by teaching people and in particular new generations, to do not want wildlife like fox coats or snake skin shoes or bags, instead they have a huge variety of sintetic options. Countries had to try to educate people and produce more job posts to prevent traffickers. Also goverment should improve their security on the vorders of the country so that animals couldnt go out of it.