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Arabian Desert, great desert region of extreme southwestern Asia that occupies almost the entire Arabian Peninsula. It is the largest desert area on the continent—covering an area of about 900,000 square miles—and the second largest on Earth, surpassed in size only by the Sahara, in northern Africa.
The Arabian Desert (Arabic: ٱلصَّحْرَاء ٱلْعَرَبِيَّة) is a vast desert wilderness in West Asia that occupies almost the entire Arabian Peninsula with an area of 2,330,000 square kilometers (900,000 sq mi). [3] It stretches from Yemen to the Persian Gulf and Oman to Jordan and Iraq.
The vast expanse of the Arabian Desert is formed through a series of natural boundaries that protect the sandy dunes and keep the dusty winds inside the desert. The most prominent borders of the desert are the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea to the southeast and south and the Red Sea in the west.
A map displaying the location of the Arabian Desert. The Arabian Desert occupies nine countries, including all of Qatar and Kuwait, most of the United Arab Emirates to the west, as well as the grandest landmass on the peninsula, Saudi Arabia.
The Arabian Peninsula is the original home of the Bedouin, pastoral nomadic tribes known as the "desert dwellers," they were herding dromedary camels and goats. Isolated oases punctuate the Arabian Desert; places with patches of vegetation surrounded by vast arid areas of land, where enough freshwater enables people for some agriculture.
Several geographical features characterize the Arabian Peninsula’s landscape, including plateaus, desert range, mountains, and coastlands. The peninsula is mostly covered by deserts, making it one of the world’s driest regions.
A small cluster of broad transverse dunes has formed on the south coast east of the port of Aden. Arabian Desert - Sand, Rocks, Climate: The Arabian Desert consists of two major regions. The first, the ancient Arabian platform (a segment of the African Shield), is in the west.
Arabian Desert Map. The geographical location of the Arabian Desert is quite simple as it occupies almost all of the Arabian peninsular bounded by the Syrian Desert to the north, the Red Sea to the west, Arabian Sea to the south and The Gulf (also controversially known as the Persian Gulf or Arabian Gulf) to the east.
Arabian Desert, Desert region, Arabian Peninsula. It covers about 900,000 sq mi (2,330,000 sq km), occupying nearly the entire peninsula. It lies largely within Saudi Arabia but large portions extend into Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Yemen.
The Arabian Desert, encompassing a vast swathe of the Arabian Peninsula, is a land of stark beauty and captivating mystery. This immense arid region, roughly the size of Western Europe, stretches across parts of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, and Jordan.