The Arabian Peninsula formed as a result of the rifting of the Red Sea between 56 and 23 million years ago, and is bordered by the Red Sea to the west and southwest, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman to the northeast, the Levant and Mesopotamia to the north and the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean to the southeast. In the classical era the Sinai Peninsula was also considered a part of Arabia. Geographically, the Arabian Peninsula includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Yemen, as well as southern Iraq and Jordan. It is also known as the Arabian subcontinent. At 3,237,500 km 2 (1,250,000 sq mi), the Arabian Peninsula is the largest peninsula in the world. Arabic: شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّة, shibhu l-jazīrati l-ʿarabiyyah, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب, jazīratu l-ʿarab, "Island of the Arabs"), or Arabia, is a peninsula in Western Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate. The Arabian Peninsula ( / ə ˈ r eɪ b i ə n .
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