Arabian Peninsula

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geographical region peninsula

The Arabian Peninsula is a vast, predominantly desert region in Western Asia that is considered the historical heartland of Arab culture and the birthplace of Islam.

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Observed surface forms (4)

Surface form	Occurrences
Arabia	7
Arabian Peninsula (fictionalized)	1
Arabian Peninsula region	1
southern Arabia	1

Statements (66)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	geographical region ⓘ peninsula ⓘ
borderedBy	Arabian Sea ⓘ Gulf of Aden ⓘ Indian Ocean ⓘ Levant region ⓘ Mesopotamia ⓘ Persian Gulf ⓘ Red Sea ⓘ Syrian Desert ⓘ
climate	arid ⓘ desert climate ⓘ
connectedTo	Eurasia ⓘ surface form: Eurasian landmass
contains	Asir region ⓘ Rub al Khali ⓘ surface form: Empty Quarter Yemen ⓘ surface form: Hadhramaut Hejaz ⓘ Najd ⓘ Oman Mountains ⓘ Rub al Khali ⓘ Tihamah coastal plain ⓘ Yemeni Highlands ⓘ
continentPartOf	Asia ⓘ
countryLocatedOn	Bahrain ⓘ Iraq ⓘ Jordan ⓘ Kuwait ⓘ Oman ⓘ Qatar ⓘ Saudi Arabia ⓘ United Arab Emirates ⓘ Yemen ⓘ parts of southern Iraq ⓘ parts of southern Jordan ⓘ
ethnicMajority	Arabs ⓘ
geologicalFeature	part of Arabian Plate ⓘ
historicalRegion	Arabian Peninsula self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Arabia
knownFor	birthplace of Islam ⓘ historical heartland of Arab culture ⓘ oil reserves ⓘ vast deserts ⓘ
languageMajority	Arabic ⓘ
largestCountryOn	Saudi Arabia ⓘ
locatedIn	Middle East ⓘ Middle East ⓘ surface form: Southwest Asia Middle East ⓘ surface form: Western Asia
majorCityOn	Abu Dhabi ⓘ Doha ⓘ Jeddah ⓘ Kuwait City ⓘ Mecca ⓘ Medina ⓘ Muscat ⓘ Riyadh ⓘ Sanaʽa ⓘ surface form: Sana'a
partOf	Arab world ⓘ Greater Middle East ⓘ
religiousSignificance	location of Mecca ⓘ location of Medina ⓘ origin of Prophet Muhammad ⓘ site of early Islamic caliphates ⓘ
seaSeparatedFrom	Africa by Red Sea ⓘ
subregion	Riyadh Province ⓘ surface form: Central Arabia Persian Gulf states ⓘ surface form: Eastern Arabia Northern Arabia ⓘ Southern Arabia ⓘ

Referenced by (161)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gulf of Oman → adjacentTo → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Horn of Africa → adjacentTo → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Arabs → ancestralHomeland → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques → associatedWithPlace → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Caliph Abu Bakr → birthCountry → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

subject surface form: Abu Bakr

Ali ibn Abi Talib → birthCountry → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Hafsa bint Umar → birthPeninsula → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Muhammad → birthPeninsula → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Ruqayyah bint Muhammad → birthPeninsula → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Umm Kulthum bint Muhammad → birthPeninsula → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Caliph Uthman ibn Affan → birthPeninsula → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

subject surface form: Uthman ibn Affan

Aisha bint Abi Bakr → birthPlace → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Fatimah bint Muhammad → birthPlace → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Hasan ibn Ali → birthPlace → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Husayn ibn Ali → birthPlace → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Arabian Plate → carries → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Eurasia → contains → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Department of Islamic Art → coversGeographicRegion → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Arabs → culturalRegion → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Muhammad → deathPeninsula → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Aisha bint Abi Bakr → deathPlace → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Fatimah bint Muhammad → deathPlace → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Kharijism → emergedInRegion → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Sayyids → ethnicRegion → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Silk Road routes → extendsTo → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Department of Near Eastern Antiquities → focusesOn → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Central Semitic languages → geographicDistribution → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

South Semitic languages → geographicDistribution → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Ishmaelites → geographicRegion → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Early Islamic period → geographicScope → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Ottoman culture → geographicalExtent → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

GCC Common Market → geopoliticalScope → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Arabic literature → hasGeographicScope → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Semitic languages → hasRegion → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Middle East → hasSubregion → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Arabic calligraphy → historicalOriginRegion → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Arabian Peninsula → historicalRegion → Arabian Peninsula self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arabia

Middle East → historicalRegionIncludes → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Tihamah → historicalRegionOf → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arabia

Middle Eastern theatre of World War I → includedRegion → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Persian Gulf states → includesPeninsula → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Arabian Sea → locatedBetween → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Red Sea → locatedBetween → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Aden (until 1937, administratively linked) → locatedIn → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

this entity surface form: southern Arabia

Aden Protectorate → locatedIn → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Arabian Desert → locatedIn → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Battle of the Trench → locatedIn → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

British Western Aden Protectorate sphere → locatedIn → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ

Colony of Aden → locatedIn → Arabian Peninsula ⓘ