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Arabia
[ uh-rey-bee-uh ]
noun
- a peninsula in SW Asia, including Saudi Arabia, Yemen Arab Republic, People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Kuwait: divided in ancient times into Arabia Deserta, Arabia Petraea, and Arabia Felix. About 1,000,000 sq. mi. (2,600,000 sq. km).
Arabia
/ əˈreɪbɪə /
noun
- a great peninsula of SW Asia, between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf: consists chiefly of a desert plateau, with mountains rising over 3000 m (10 000 ft) in the west and scattered oases; includes the present-day countries of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates. Area: about 2 600 000 sq km (1 000 000 sq miles)
Arabia
- Peninsula in southwest Asia , bordered on the north by Jordan and Iraq , on the east by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, on the south by the Gulf of Aden, and on the west by the Red Sea . This historical region in the Middle East consists of Bahrain , Kuwait , Oman , Qatar , Saudi Arabia , the United Arab Emirates , and Yemen .
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The most notorious states are Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, where death is an acceptable legal remedy.
Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, primarily produces petroleum.
On top of oil, the United States produces significantly more natural gas than Saudi Arabia.
Imagine if hackers from Saudi Arabia said that any TV station in America broadcasting feminists and gays would be attacked?
Qatar is just a little spit of land that looks like a polyp on edge of Saudi Arabia.
Arabia is the most dry country in the world, and one in which water is the most scarce.
For he appears to have subdued first Ethiopia and Troglodytica,705 and afterwards to have passed over into Arabia.
The little zebu of Arabia is not more than a tenth part the size of the bull-elephant.
From Arabia we got the words harem and magazine, and from Turkey the name coffee, though this is really an Arabian word.
In remote antiquity the bulk of gold was brought by the Phenicians from Arabia, which had twenty-two gold mines.
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