What is Arabian Peninsula?
[[Image: Empty quarter Arabia.PNG | thumb|right | 250px | 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. [[File:Arabian_peninsula_definition.PNG | thumb|250px]] 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 well]]s. [[Climate change]] and the scarcity of [[water]] is said to have affected this area.<ref>Roberts, Patrick ''etc'' 2018. Fossil herbivore stable isotopes reveal middle Pleistocene hominin palaeoenvironment in 'Green Arabia'. ''Nature Ecology & Evolution''. Nature. 2 (12): 1871–1878. [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0698-9]</ref> 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. == Related pages == * [[History of Arabia]] == References == {{reflist}} == Other websites == *[http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11767/ Arabia] British Foreign Office, 1920 {{authority control}} [[Category:Peninsulas of Asia]] [[Category:Arabian Peninsula]] [[Category:Gondwana]]