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The Arab states of the Persian Gulf (Arabic: دول الخليج الفارسي) [1] refers to a group of Arab states bordering the Persian Gulf.There are seven member states of the Arab League in the region: Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
The Persian Gulf was a battlefield of the 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War, in which each side attacked the other's oil tankers. It is the namesake of the 1991 Gulf War, the largely air- and land-based conflict that followed Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. The United States' role in the Persian Gulf grew in the second half of the 20th century. [47]
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 to a distinct political unit was absent.
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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 ...
Gulf states may refer to: Member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates; Arab states of the Persian Gulf; Gulf Coast of the United States: Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas
Despite its name, the Persian Gulf is not a gulf, but a sea The main article for this category is Persian Gulf . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Persian Gulf .
Nowadays, Eastern Arabia is a part of the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. [2] [3] [page needed] [4] [page needed] The modern-day states of Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates are the most commonly listed Gulf Arab states. [2] [5] Most of Saudi Arabia is not geographically a part of Eastern Arabia.