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Key Facts
Climate
desert; cooler in eastern mountains
Coastline
1,318 km
Government type
federation of monarchies
Natural resources
petroleum, natural gas
Terrain
flat, barren coastal plain merging into rolling sand dunes of vast desert; mountains in east