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Most Saudis are ethnically Arab of whom they immigrated as pilgrims and reside in the Hijaz region along the Red Sea coast such as Jeddah, Makkah and Madina.

According to a random survey, most would-be Saudis come from the Subcontinent and Arab countries.

Many Arabs from nearby countries are employed in the kingdom.

There also are significant numbers of Asian expatriates mostly from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Philippines.

In the 1970s and 1980s, there was also a significant community of South Korean migrant labourers, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, but most have since returned home ; the South Korean government's statistics showed only 1, 200 of their nationals living in the kingdom.

There are more than 100, 000 Westerners in Saudi Arabia, most of whom live in private compounds in the major cities such as Riyadh, Jeddah and Dhahran.

The government prohibits non-Muslims from living in the city of Mecca.