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The Arabian Sea (Arabic: بَحرُ ٱلْعَرَبْ, romanized: baḥr al-ʿarab) [1] is a region of sea in the northern Indian Ocean, bounded on the west by the Arabian Peninsula, Gulf of Aden and Guardafui Channel, on the northwest by Gulf of Oman and Iran, on the north by Pakistan, on the east by India, and on the southeast by the Laccadive Sea [2] and the Maldives, on the southwest by ...
The Arabian Peninsula is located in the continent of Asia and is bounded by (clockwise) the Persian Gulf on the northeast, the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman on the east, the Arabian Sea on the southeast, the Gulf of Aden, and the Guardafui Channel on the south, and the Bab-el-Mandeb strait on the southwest and the Red Sea, which is ...
The Persian Gulf, [a] sometimes called the Arabian Gulf, [b] is a mediterranean sea in West Asia. The body of water is an extension of the Arabian Sea and the larger Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. [1] [2] It is connected to the Gulf of Oman in the east by the Strait of Hormuz.
The World Ocean. For example, the Law of the Sea states that all of the World Ocean is "sea", [8] [9] [10] [b] and this is also common usage for "the sea". Any large body of water with "Sea" in the name, including lakes. River – a narrow strip of water that flows over land from a higher elevation to a lower one
The region stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the east, and from the Mediterranean Sea in the north to the Indian Ocean in the southeast. [6] The eastern part of the Arab world is known as the Mashriq, and the western part as the Maghreb.
The Gulf of Oman or Sea of Oman (Arabic: خليج عمان khalīj ʿumān; Persian: دریای عمان daryâ-ye omân), also known as Gulf of Makran or Sea of Makran (Arabic: خلیج مکران khalīj makrān; Persian: دریای مکران daryâ-ye makrān), is a gulf in the Indian Ocean that connects the Arabian Sea with the Strait of ...
English: Location of the Arabian Sea in the region. The borders of the sea are based on those from the IHO's "Limits of Oceans and Seas" Draft 3rd Edition, 1953. The map was created using data from Natural Earth, with mapshaper. (Natural Earth Data is in the public domain.) For reproducibility purposes, this was the set of scripts used.
Arabian Gulf may refer to: Persian Gulf, also referred to as the "Gulf of Basra", "Arabian Gulf", or "The Gulf" Persian Gulf naming dispute; Arab states of the Persian Gulf, countries of the Arabian Peninsula bordering the Persian Gulf, often referred to as "Arab Gulf states" Red Sea, historically known as Sinus Arabicus (lit. Arabian Gulf)