Arabia

[ uh-rey-bee-uh ]

noun

1. 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

1. 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

1. 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 .

Notes

Strategically important because it is situated at the crossroads of Europe , Asia, and Africa , Arabia has been coveted and controlled by many empires throughout history. The area's importance is all the greater today because of its fabulous oil reserves. The United States and the Soviet Union both competed for influence in Arabia after the British presence ended in the late 1960s. Arabian states joined the coalition against Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. ( See also Persian Gulf War .)

Example Sentences

Neandertals inhabited parts of the Middle East by around 70,000 years ago and could have reached a well-watered Arabia by 55,000 years ago.

From Science News

The smuggling has its roots in the clumsiness of rulers who for hundreds of years have taken the thousand-mile Zagros range as the boundary between Arabia and Persia but ignored how Kurds live on both sides.

From Outside Online

Some of those people may have reached Arabia before eventually journeying to southwest Asia, Groucutt suggests.

From Science News

Arabia, known today for its desert landscape, served as a “green turnstile” for migrating Stone Age members of the human genus starting around 400,000 years ago, a new study finds.

From Science News

Those finds are another sign of human migrations into Arabia at a time when the corresponding KAM 4 lake bed shows that wet conditions reigned.

From Science News

The most notorious states are Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, where death is an acceptable legal remedy.

From The Daily Beast

Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, primarily produces petroleum.

From The Daily Beast

On top of oil, the United States produces significantly more natural gas than Saudi Arabia.

From The Daily Beast

Imagine if hackers from Saudi Arabia said that any TV station in America broadcasting feminists and gays would be attacked?

From The Daily Beast

Qatar is just a little spit of land that looks like a polyp on edge of Saudi Arabia.

From The Daily Beast

Arabia is the most dry country in the world, and one in which water is the most scarce.

From Project Gutenberg

For he appears to have subdued first Ethiopia and Troglodytica,705 and afterwards to have passed over into Arabia.

From Project Gutenberg

The little zebu of Arabia is not more than a tenth part the size of the bull-elephant.

From Project Gutenberg

From Arabia we got the words harem and magazine, and from Turkey the name coffee, though this is really an Arabian word.

From Project Gutenberg

In remote antiquity the bulk of gold was brought by the Phenicians from Arabia, which had twenty-two gold mines.

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