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The Persian Gulf is home to many islands, mostly small, distributed in the gulf's entire geographic area and administered by the neighboring nations. Most islands are sparsely populated, with some being barren, and some utilized for communication, military, or as ship docks. Some of the islands in the Persian Gulf are artificially constructed ...
Eight nations have coasts along the Persian Gulf: Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The Persian gulf's strategic location has made it an ideal place for human development over time. Today, many major cities of the Middle East are located in this region.
British map showing the Strait of Hormuz. Before the oil era, the Persian Gulf states made little effort to delineate their territories. Members of Arab tribes felt loyalty to their tribe or shaykh and tended to roam across the Arabian desert according to the needs of their flocks. Official boundaries meant little, and the concept of allegiance ...
Map depicts sovereign states and a de facto state (tw) fully located on islands: those with land borders shaded green, and those without shaded dark blue. Countries/territories not shown on the map: Antarctica (aq) (continental disputed territory), Australia (au) (continental country), the Cook Islands (ck) (free association with New Zealand), Greenland (gl) (constituent country of the Kingdom ...
Map of Bahrain Topography Persian Gulf Enlargeable, detailed map of Bahrain, with most features marked in both English and Arabic. The Kingdom of Bahrain [1] consists of Bahrain Island and 33 of the 37 Bahrain Islands, lying in the Persian Gulf's Gulf of Bahrain off the north shore of West Asia's Arabian Peninsula. Bahrain's capital city is Manama.
Historical map of the Strait of Hormuz showing the island spelled as Ormuz, top right Hormuz Island ( / h ɔːr ˈ m uː z / ; Persian : جزیره هرمز , romanized : Jazireh-ye Hormoz ), also spelled Hormoz , Ormoz , Ormuz or Ormus , is an Iranian island in the Persian Gulf .
The location of Bahrain An enlargeable map of the Kingdom of Bahrain. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Bahrain: Bahrain – Islamic sovereign island nation located in the Persian Gulf. [1] In the late 1800s, following successive treaties with the British, Bahrain became a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
A map dated 1891 showing Abu Musa ، Hormozgan province,Iran Abu Musa (Bu Musa) (Persian: بوموسا listen ⓘ, IPA: [æbu mu'sɒ]) is an Iranian 12.8-square-kilometre (4.9 sq mi) island in the eastern Persian Gulf, found near the entrance of Strait of Hormuz. [3]