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Persian Gulf
The Persian Gulf is a a body of water that provides an outlet for numerous Middle Eastern countries, while separating Iran from the Arabian Peninsula. It was the site of numerous recent conflicts as well as one of the most important hubs for petroleum in the world.
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What river joins the Euphrates river in Iraq before emptying into the Persian Gulf?
There is no river that flows into the gulf west of Euphrates.
Is the Persian gulf salt water or fresh?
Salt water. The Persian gulf is one of the saltiest bodies of water on earth.
What is the smallest country in the persian gulf?
Bahrain is an island country in the Persian Gulf and the smallest country in the Persian Gulf area.
What straits connects the persian gulf to the Arabian sea?
I believe that is the Strait of Hormuz going into the Gulf of Oman.
Kuwait City, Kuwait.
What is the area between the Persian gulf and mediterranean sea and shaped like a quarter called?
Mesopotamia
Why has Google Maps named Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf?
It is important to note that only the Arabs insist on calling the Persian Gulf the Arabian Gulf. It is not a commonly used term in any major language other than Arabic and the other five UN languages call the area the Persian Gulf. The same issue arises with the term "English Channel" which is called "La Manche" in French and variations of that name in other languages.
In English and most other languages, the proper term is "Persian Gulf" as much as it offends Arab sensibilities, just as the term "Manche" is the proper international linguistic term of the English Channel as much as that may offend British sensibilities.
However, there are several reasons that Arabs feel the need to push others to see the situation from their perspective:
- It is used by the Arab League and nations
- It is used by United Nations in their Arabic documents and Arabic Language is an official language in the United Nations
- The name "Persian gulf" is linked to the Persian empire that does not exist any more. As Mediterranean sea used to be called Roman Sea
- Iran does not mean Persia, Iranian people consist of Persians, Arabs, Azeri, Turkmen, Kurds, Gilakis, Mazandaranis, Lurs, and Baluchis
- The people who live around the Gulf are mostly Arabs so by demography it should be called Arabian Gulf
- There are 6 Arabic countries around the gulf but Iran is alone and 70% of the coast line is under Arabic countries
- Stated clearly in the Arabian history.
All of those are refuted by International Observers who say correspondingly:
- This is true because its name in Arabic is the Arabian Gulf, this is not in dispute. The question is whether non-Arab parties acquiesce to this.
- All five other UN languages use a variant of Persian Gulf and those five other languages are the majority. Arabic has no special privilege to trump the others.
- Many areas are named after people who may or may not still exist. America is named after an Italian explorer who is long dead, but nobody suggests renaming America.
- The Islamic Republic of Iran is the successor state to Persia. The Persian Empire changed its name to Iran in 1935. The Persian Empire and now Iran was never culturally homogenous. What that has to do with nomenclature is unclear.
- Current demography does not change place names. Tibet is still consider Tibet outside of China even though there are more Han Chinese in Xijang Province (as the Chinese call it) than native Tibetans.
- Wholly irrelevant to nomenclature. The South China Sea borders more of Vietnam than China and the Gulf of Aqabah borders Jordan less than each of the three other countries to touch it.
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What Persian gulf country starts with a q?
Qatar is the only one of the eight countries that borders the Persian Gulf that starts with Q.
Arabian Peninsula
What 550 BC which leader began the Persian Empire along the north east cost of the Persian Gulf?
Cyrus the Great.
In order to reach the Persian gulf from turkey through which countries would you most likely travel?
OmanIran,United Arab Emirates ,Saudi Arabia ,Qatar,Bahrain,Kuwait and Iraq.
What state has the most oil in the Persian Gulf?
Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, UAE, Dubai, Qatar and Bahrain all produce oil.
Does Kazakhstan border the Persian Gulf?
No. Kazakhstan is in Central Asia. The only bodies of water that it touches are the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea.
What body of water connects the Gulf of Oman with the Persian Gulf?
The Suez Canal, Red Sea, Arabian Sea, gulf of Oman and Strait of Hormuz.
What is happening in water pollution in the Persian Gulf?
well their was an oil spill which was the largest on purpose spill in history. with
270,000-820,000 tonnes
2 million - 6 million barrels
84 million - 250 million gallons OR
320 million - 950 million litres
but nothing on pollution
What is the country boarded by Saudi Arabian omen and the Persian gulf?
The countries of Yemen and the United Arab Emirates.
Kuwait
What links the Persian Gulf with the Arabian sea?
The Perisn Gulf is connected to the Arabian Sea by the Straight of Hormuz which opens into the Sea of Oman.
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What is the narrow passage that provides an outlet from the Persian gulf?
The narrow outlet of the Persian Gulf is the Strait of Hormuz.
Is Persian gulf right Arabian?
There is a current bypass as to what the name of the gulf should be called. Historically, the English speaking world has called it the Persian Gulf but it has not been until recently that Arab Gulf Countries have protested and have requested that the name be changed.
In the 5th century BC, Darius the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty called the Persian Gulf "Draya; tya; haca; parsa: Aitiy", meaning, "The sea which goes from Persian. In this era, some of the Greek writers also called it "Persikonkaitas", meaning the Persian Gulf. Claudius Ptolemaues, the celebrated Greco-Egyptian mathematician/astronomer in the 2nd century called it "Persicus Sinus" or Persian Gulf. In the 1st century AD, Quintus Curtius Rufus, the Roman historian, designated it "Aquarius Persico" - the Persian Sea. Flavius Arrianus, another Greek historian, called it "Persiconkaitas" (Persian Gulf).
During the Sassanian dynasty and the time of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad and the 4 caliphs, the name invariably used was the "Persian Sea."[16] This was continued by the Ummayyads and Abbassids, while during the time of the Ottoman Empire, both "Persian Gulf" or "Persian Sea" were used.
Among historians, travellers and geographers of the Islamic era, many of them writing in Arabic from the 9th to the 17th century, Ibn Khordadbeh, Ibn al-Faqih, Ibn Rustah, Sohrab, Ramhormozi, Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Farisi al Istakhri, Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Mas'udi, Al-Mutahhar ibn Tahir al-Maqdisi(d. 966), Ibn Hawqal, Al-Muqaddasi, Ibn Khaldun, Mohammad ibn Najub Bekiran, Abu Rayhan Biruni, Muhammad al-Idrisi, Yaqut al-Hamawi, Zakariya al-Qazwini, Abu'l-Fida, Al-Dimashqi, Hamdollah Mostowfi, Ibn al-Wardi, Al-Nuwayri, Ibn Batutta, Katip Çelebi and other sources have used the terms "Bahr-i-Fars", "Daryaye-i-Fars", "Khalij al-'Ajami" and "Khalij-i Fars" (all of which translate into "Persian Gulf" or "Persian Sea").
The United Nations Secretariat on many occasions has requested that only the term "Persian Gulf" be used as the official and standard geographical designation for the body of water.
At the Twenty-third session of the United Nations in March-April 2006, the name "Persian Gulf" was confirmed again as the legitimate and official term to be used by members of the United Nations.
