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Saudi Arabia has been front and center the past few months.
The oil-rich kingdom pushed OPEC, the 12-nation oil cartel, to keep oil production up in order to put price pressure on other major oil producers like the Iran, Russia, and the US.
Aside from the oil story, there are many more behind-the-scenes facts about this Middle East powerhouse that many people don't know.
We've got them here.
About 100 camels are sold in the capital of Saudi Arabia every day.
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The capital of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, has a large camel market. About 100 camels are sold every day.
Source: Random History
80% of the labor force in Saudi Arabia is foreign.
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Saudi Arabia's labor force is about 8.412 million — but 80% (or about 6 million) of those people are considered nonnational. Most of these people work in the oil and service sectors.
And right now, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital, is working hard to reduce unemployment of Saudis.
Source: CIA Factbook
Saudi Arabia's Ghawar oil field has enough reserves to fill 4,770,897 Olympic swimming pools.
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Saudi Arabia's Ghawar field is the largest in the world. It has an estimated 75 billion barrels of oil left.
An Olympic-size swimming pool can hold 660,253.09 gallons of liquid.
Source: US Energy Information Administration
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