Nejd

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Nejd (Arabic: نجد Najd), officially the Kingdom of Nejd (Arabic: مملكة نجد Mamlakat Najd), is a country in Western Asia, constituting two-third of the Arabian Peninsula. Nejd is geographically the largest sovereign state in Western Asia, the second-largest in the Arab world (after Algeria), the fifth-largest in Asia, and the 12th-largest in the world. Nejd is bordered by Jabal Shammar to the north, the Trucial Coast and the Persian Gulf to the east, Oman to the southeast, Yemen, Asisr, and South Arabia to the south and Hejaz to the west.

Although most of its terrain consists of arid desert, lowland and mountains, Nejd is the world's third largest oil producer (behind the United States and Iran) and the world's second largest oil exporter after Iran, controlling the world's second largest oil reserves and the sixth largest gas reserves. The kingdom is categorized as a World Bank high-income economy with a high Human Development Index and is the only Arab country to be part of the G-20 major economies. Its capital and largest city is Riyadh.