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.  thumb|250px

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

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.

 Related pages 

 History of Arabia

 References 

 Other websites 

Arabia British Foreign Office, 1920

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