Arabian Peninsula

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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.

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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.

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

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  Geographical map of the Arabian Peninsula (orthographic projection)

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  Arabian Peninsula (no borders)

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  The constituent countries of Arabia

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  Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the most populous city in the Arabian Peninsula

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  The Haraz Mountains in the west of present-day Yemen include Arabia's highest mountain, Jabal An-Nabi Shu'ayb or Jabal Hadhur near Sanaa.

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  Pre-Islamic Arabia in 1000 BC

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  A map published by the British academic Harold Dixon during World War I, showing the locations of Arab tribes in West Asia, 1914

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  The Umayyad Caliphate (661–750)

Related pages

• History of Arabia

Other websites

• Arabia British Foreign Office, 1920