Arabian Peninsula
The Arabian Peninsula is a peninsula in Southwesterm Asia at the junction of Africa and Asia. It is east of Ethiopia and northern Somalia, south of Iraq and Jordan, and southwest of Iran. The waters around it are, to its southwest, the Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba; to its southeast, the Arabian Sea; and to its northeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf. The Arabian Peninsula is usually cited as the largest peninsula in the world and has an area of 3,237,500 square kilometers.
It includes these countries:
- Kuwait
- Oman
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia, which covers most of the peninsula
- United Arab Emirates
- Yemen
Most of the population of the peninsula live in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Northern Arabia has oil wells. Climate change and water scarcity are said to have affected the area.[1]
A prominent feature of the Arabian Peninsula is desert. In Hejaz and its southwest, there are mountain ranges, which get more rain than the rest of the Arabian Peninsula.
Arabian Peninsula Media
Geographical map of the Arabian Peninsula (orthographic projection)
Arabian Peninsula (no borders)
Pre-Islamic Arabia in 1000 BC
Map of the Arabian Peninsula in 600 AD, showing the various Arab tribes and their areas of settlement. The Lakhmids (yellow) formed an Arab monarchy as clients of the Sasanian Empire, while the Ghassanids (red) formed an Arab monarchy as clients of the Roman Empire.
The Umayyad Caliphate (661–750)
The Middle East, c. 1190. Saladin's empire and its vassals shown in red
Portuguese colonies in Arabia
The Arabian Peninsula in 1914
Territorial evolution of the Third Saudi State (1902–1934)
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