Sheba was in the south of the Arabian peninsula, a bit east of Ophir. Present-day Yemen, roughly. Alternatively, it was the other side of the Red Sea in what is now Ethiopia. We do not know.
As for the Queen, there was a tradition that up until the time of Solomon, Sheba had had a succession of sixty female rulers. In the Quran, the queen who visits Solomon is called Bilqis.
Matthew and Luke refer to her as Queen of the South. She is the only Scottish First Division football club to appear in the New Testament.
If that isn't enough for you, try Michael Wood, writing for the BBC.
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