Arabian Peninsula

The Arabian Peninsula

The Arabian Peninsula is a peninsula in Southwest Asia at the junction of Africa and Asia. It lies east of Ethiopia and northern Somalia; south of Iraq and Jordan; and southwest of Iran. The waters around it are: on the southwest the Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba; on the southeast the Arabian Sea; and on the northeast the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf. The Arabian Peninsula is usually cited as the largest peninsula in the world with an area of 3,237,500 square kilometers.

It includes the countries of:

Kuwait
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia which covers most of the peninsula
United Arab Emirates
Yemen

The majority of the population of the peninsula live in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Northern Arabia has oil wells. Climate change and the scarcity of water is said to have affected this area.^[1]

A prominent feature of the peninsula is desert. In Hejaz and the southwest there are mountain ranges which may get more rain than the rest of the peninsula.

Arabian Peninsula Media

Geographical map of the Arabian Peninsula (orthographic projection)
Arabian Peninsula (no borders)
Satellite view of the Arabian Peninsula
The constituent countries of Arabia
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the most populous city in the Arabian Peninsula
The Haraz Mountains in western Yemen include Arabia's highest mountain, Jabal An-Nabi Shu'ayb or Jabal Hadhur near Sanaa
Pre-Islamic Arabia in 1000 BC
The Umayyad Caliphate (661–750)
The Middle East, c. 1190. Saladin's empire and its vassals shown in red
Portuguese colonies in Arabia.

Related pages

History of Arabia

References

↑ Roberts, Patrick etc 2018. Fossil herbivore stable isotopes reveal middle Pleistocene hominin palaeoenvironment in 'Green Arabia'. Nature Ecology & Evolution. Nature. 2 (12): 1871–1878. [1]

Other websites

Arabia British Foreign Office, 1920

[1] Roberts, Patrick etc 2018. Fossil herbivore stable isotopes reveal middle Pleistocene hominin palaeoenvironment in 'Green Arabia'. Nature Ecology & Evolution. Nature. 2 (12): 1871–1878. [1]

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