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According to the Saudi authorities, approximately 1.8 million pilgrims from over 150 countries have performed Haj so far this year.
According to Xinhua, the General Authority for Statistics, the number of pilgrims from Arab countries has surpassed 346,000, accounting for 21% of the total.
More than a million pilgrims arrived from Asian countries, accounting for 63.5 percent of the total, while about 223,000 others, or 13.4 percent, came from African countries excluding Arab ones.
According to the General Authority for Statistics, more over 36,500 pilgrims traveled to Saudi Arabia from Europe, the United States, Australia, and other unlisted countries, accounting for 2.1% of the total.
Source:OCN
