Arabic peninsula
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| Area | 3.2 million km2 (1.25 million mi²) |
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| Population | 77,983,936 |
| Demonym | Arabian |
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 Bahrain Kuwait Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates Yemen Iraq Jordan
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The Arabian Peninsula, simplified Arabia (Arabic: شبه الجزيرة العربية Shibhu al-jazīrati al-ʿarabiyya, ‘Arabian island’) or (Arabic: جزيرة العرب Jazīratu Al-ʿArab, ‘Island of the Arabs’), is a peninsula of Western Asia situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian plate. From a geological perspective, it is considered a subcontinent of Asia.
It is the largest peninsula in the world, at 3,237,500 km2 (1,250,000 sq mi). The Arabian Peninsula consists of the countries Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and parts of Jordan and Iraq. The peninsula formed as a result of the rifting of the Red Sea between 56 and 23 million years ago, and is bordered by the Red Sea to the west and southwest, the Persian Gulf to the northeast, the Levant to the north and the Indian Ocean to the southeast. The Arabian Peninsula plays a critical geopolitical role in the Middle East and the Arab world due to its vast reserves of oil and natural gas.
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