The CDSI (Central Department of Statistics and Information) provided the boundaries of the provinces of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. These provinces include Ha'il, Qasim, Riyadh, Tabuk, Madinah, Bahah, Northern Borders, Jawf, Jizan, Asir, Najran, Eastern Province

Central Department of Statistics and Information (CDSI)

While conducting studies and biological and social surveys necessary to prepare a system for protecting natural areas, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia utilized assistance from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which had expertise in this area. In 1991, experts from the IUCN and the commission wrote a proposal to preserve wildlife and to encourage sustainable rural development in Saudi Arabia. Based on this proposal, a program was established for the protected areas in the Kingdom. This proposal was recently updated, in accordance with the environmental developments, with a proposal for protection of 75 areas in Saudi Arabia. (62 of them are wilderness areas and the remaining 13 are coastal and marine areas). It is planned that the commission will manage the 35 protected areas (15 of them are already listed and 20 are proposed). The other 40 (listed and proposed) areas will be managed by other parties including the National Park of the Ministry of Agriculture in Riyadh, and Asir, al-Taif, and others. In addition, there will be areas affiliated with the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, United Arab Emirates, the Royal Commission for Jubail, Yanbu and others. The estimated total area of the proposed system is about 10.42% of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This area is dedicated to the development of renewable natural resources. These areas are for the benefit of mankind.

Saudi Wildlife Authority (SWA)

The Ministry of Transport provided information regarding the primary and secondary roadways within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Ministry of Transport Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

This shapefile includes information on the locations and statuses of electrical grid lines in Saudi Arabia.

SEC (Saudi Electricity company)

This shapefile (ksa_population_province) includes information on Saudi Arabia’s population by province. Data is given for males, females, and totals, broken out by Saudi and non-Saudi born

Central Department of Statistics and Information. Preliminary Results of 1431AH - 2010AD Population and Housing Census

GeoTIFF image of elevation (topography) surface for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, derived from the readily-available SRTM 3-arc second (90-meter) elevation dataset, clipped to the political boundary of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The SRTM data resulted from a collaborative effort by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA,formerly NIMA), as well as the participation of the German and Italian space agencies, to generate a near-global digital elevation model (DEM) of the Earth using radar interferometry. The SRTM instrument consisted of the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C (SIR-C) hardware set modified with a Space Station-derived mast and additional antennae to form an interferometer with a 60 meter long baseline. A description of the SRTM mission can be found in Farr and Kobrick (2000).SRTM radar echo data were processed into elevation information in a systematic fashion using the SRTM Ground Data Processing System (GDPS) supercomputer system at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Elevation data were mosaiced into more than 14,000 one degree by one degree cells and formatted according to the Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) specification for delivery to NGA, who is using it to update and extend their DTED products.A second product with sample spacing of 3 arc-seconds was generated by a 3x3 averaging of the 1 arc-second data, and is publicly available through the U.S. Geological Survey’s EROS Data Center. These 3 arcsecond data were then further averaged 10x10 to produce 30 arc-second data commensurate with GTOPO30.

SRTM30

GeoTIFF image of degrees slope for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, derived from the readily-available SRTM 3-arc second (90-meter) elevation dataset, clipped to the political boundary of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The SRTM data resulted from a collaborative effort by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA,formerly NIMA), as well as the participation of the German and Italian space agencies, to generate a near-global digital elevation model (DEM) of the Earth using radar interferometry. The SRTM instrument consisted of the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C (SIR-C) hardware set modified with a Space Station-derived mast and additional antennae to form an interferometer with a 60 meter long baseline. A description of the SRTM mission can be found in Farr and Kobrick (2000).SRTM radar echo data were processed into elevation information in a systematic fashion using the SRTM Ground Data Processing System (GDPS) supercomputer system at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Elevation data were mosaiced into more than 14,000 one degree by one degree cells and formatted according to the Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) specification for delivery to NGA, who is using it to update and extend their DTED products.A second product with sample spacing of 3 arc-seconds was generated by a 3x3 averaging of the 1 arc-second data, and is publicly available through the U.S. Geological Survey’s EROS Data Center. These 3 arcsecond data were then further averaged 10x10 to produce 30 arc-second data commensurate with GTOPO30.

SRTM30