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During the Hellenistic period, the area was known as Arabia (Ancient Greek: Ἀραβία). The Romans named three regions "Arabia": Arabia Petraea (' Stony Arabia ' [11]): it consisted of the former Nabataean Kingdom in the southern Levant, the Sinai Peninsula and north-western Arabian Peninsula.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Arab world Area 13,132,327 km 2 (5,070,420 sq mi) Population 456,520,777 Population density 29.839/km 2 (70.37/sq mi) GDP (nominal) $2.782 trillion GDP per capita $6,647 Demonym Arab Countries 22 Arab states Minimum definition: Algeria Bahrain Egypt Iraq Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Libya Mauritania ...
Pages in category "Geographical regions of the Arabian Peninsula" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Most of the Arab world falls in the driest region of the world. Almost 80% of it is covered in desert (10,666,637 of 13,333,296 km2), stretching from Mauritania and Morocco to Oman and the UAE. [citation needed] The second most common terrain is the semi-arid terrain, which found in all Arab countries except Lebanon and Comoros. [citation needed]
'the Arab west') and Northwest Africa, [5] is the western part of the Arab world. The region comprises western and central North Africa, including Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia. The Maghreb also includes the disputed territory of Western Sahara. [note 1] As of 2018, the region had a population of over 100 million people.
Arab tribes are prevalent in the Arabian Peninsula, Mesopotamia, Levant, Egypt, Maghreb, the Sudan region and Horn Africa. [ 268 ] [ 266 ] [ 269 ] The Arabs of the Levant are traditionally divided into Qays and Yaman tribes .
The major ethnic group in the region is the Arabs, whose primary language is Arabic. In the center of the desert lies Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, with more than 7 million inhabitants. [11] Other large cities, such as Dubai, Abu Dhabi, or Kuwait City, lie on the coast of the Persian Gulf.
The Saharo-Arabian region is a floristic region of the Holarctic kingdom proposed by Armen Takhtajan.The region is covered by hot deserts, semideserts and savanna.. The region occupies the temperate parts of the Sahara desert, Sinai Peninsula, Arabian Peninsula (geographically defined), Southern Palestine and Lower Mesopotamia.