Living in Saudi Arabia | How 35 Million People Live in a Kingdom Made of Desert | 4K Travel Documentary

This is Saudi Arabia.

A kingdom of sand, stone and heat that does not have a single permanent river. Not one, and not a single natural lake either.

And yet 35.3 million people live here, in Riyadh, Jeddah and other cities of glass towers, and in towns the desert has surrounded on every side, at the edge of the Empty Quarter, the largest continuous body of sand on Earth.

In Riyadh the July average high is around 44 degrees Celsius, so life moves into the night. Around 70 per cent of the drinking water now comes from the sea.

This is how a kingdom without rivers turns energy into water.
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Extraordinary Earth goes to the places that stayed behind: the valleys, the islands and the edges of the map where ordinary life still runs on its own rules.

Every film is built from one question. How do people actually live here? Water, heat, roads, work, winter, and what happens to a place when the young ones leave. No presenters, no hotels, no top ten lists. The place itself, the numbers behind it, and the people who stayed.

From emptied villages and roadless coasts to mountain country Europe forgot it still had, Extraordinary Earth shows the world past the end of the tarmac, in 4K.

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