Following the amalgamation of the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd, the new state was named alMamlakah alʿArabīyah asSuʿūdīyah (a transliteration of المملكة العربية السعودية in Arabic) by royal decree on 23 September 1932 by its founder, Abdulaziz bin this is normally translated as "the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia" in English, it literally means "the Saudi Arab ...