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" Natural Ventilation in Traditional Courtyard Houses in The Central Region of Saudi Arabia ".
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Southwest of Asia, in the Arabian Peninsula, between 16 and 30 degrees of
latitude north. It may be thought of as a wedge between of Africa and Asia,
separated from them by the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf (1).
The total area of the country is
about two million square kilometers. On the western border is the Red Sea and to
the east is Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and the Arabian Gulf. To the
north is Kuwait, Iraq and Jordan and on the southern borders is Yemen and Oman.
Saudi Arabia has a long Red Sea coast (1800 Km) and
a cost line of 610 Km along the Arabian Gulf. Figure 2.1. provides a map
of Saudi Arabia and its neighboring countries.
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