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There was the Lahsa eyalet along the Persian gulf for ~100 years, and for the interior I guess the few years immediately after the Wahabbi war would count?
For a start, that’s the bit that is roughly the same area as the Lahsa eyalet, not the interior. Riyadh province, which is in the middle bit, has eight and a half million people. Add in al-Qassim province which is also in that area and you have ten million.
But also, just generally… five million people is a lot of people. It’s not like it’s even a particular outlier in terms of density. The eastern province is more densely populated than Canada.
The Ottoman Empire never ruled in east Arabia (apart from Muscat) or in the central areas, did they?
There was the Lahsa eyalet along the Persian gulf for ~100 years, and for the interior I guess the few years immediately after the Wahabbi war would count?
It’s just sand. Doesn’t really matter. 🙃
More people live in that sand than live in Switzerland
The population of al-Mintaqah ash-Sharqīyah (eastern province) is 5 Million. Population density of 7.3/km^2
The population of Switzerland is 9 million. Population density of 207/km^2.
It’s SAND, bro.
For a start, that’s the bit that is roughly the same area as the Lahsa eyalet, not the interior. Riyadh province, which is in the middle bit, has eight and a half million people. Add in al-Qassim province which is also in that area and you have ten million.
But also, just generally… five million people is a lot of people. It’s not like it’s even a particular outlier in terms of density. The eastern province is more densely populated than Canada.