Arabia

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Architects of Ancient Arabia - Discovery > .

24-4-16 Neom - Rise and Fall of Saudi Arabia's Linear City - Boyle > . skip > .

24-3-16 MBZ & UAE - thriving in a dangerous world - Caspian > .

24-2-10 Borders: Some Countries Are Nearly Impossible to Escape - Map > .

24-1-26 Saudi Arabia's Catastrophic "Iran" Problem - Hindsight > .

23-11-10 Qatar Angling to Be World’s Lead Hostage Negotiator | WSJ > .

23-8-11 Saudi Arabia's Challenging Geography - Real > .
23-7-22 Saudi Arabia’s Catastrophic “Everything” Problem - Real > .

23-7-20 [Dumb, Impractical, Unlikely] Saudi Arabia's Line - OBF > .

23-4-26 Why powerful nations want bases in tiny Djibouti - Real > .

22-12-14 Xi’s Saudi trip & Sino-Arab relations; X-¥ oil vs petrodollar - Lei > .

22-12-8 Xina seeking Saudi ties - Update > .

22-11-25 Why Saudi Arabia is Gladly Helping Russia - T&P > .

22-10-3 War in Yemen. Is Peace On The Horizon? [no] - gtbt > .

22-8-26 The Saudi prince: how dangerous is MBS? - Economist > .

22-6-22 Oman (ME's Switzerland) - Guarding Gulf, Strait of Hormuz - Explore > .

22-6-14 Why Yemen is Dying (and Nobody Cares) - Nova Lectio International > .

22-3-25 Neom: Saudi Arabia's AI Megacity - Mega > . skip ad > .

22-3-17 Why The Middle East Won't Survive Without Oil - OBF > .

Saudi Arabia's Oil Problem - Wendover > .

2021 The End of Oil, Explained | Vox + Netflix > .

2017-2021 How Qatar Survived A 4-Year Blockade - KhAnubis > .

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24-3-25 Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso to form a confederation - Caspian > .

24-3-23 Islamist Terrorists, French, Ruscians - Proxy Insurgencies in Africa - Real > .

Egypt-UAE 

24-4-12 Egypt is selling city site to UAE for $35 billion - Caspian > .

24-3-16 MBZ & UAE - thriving in a dangerous world - Caspian > .

> Energy >>  > Oil & Gas >>

24-4-24 Can Other Countries Replicate US Shale Revolution? || Zeihan > .

24-3-24 Why We Can’t Just Stop Oil - EcEx > .

> Red Sea >>  >> Red Sea & Persian Gulf >>>

UAE - United Arab Emirates .. 

> Yemen >> > HYe - History of Yemen >>

24-3-5 Himyarite Kingdom: Forgotten Empire of Pre-Islamic Arabia (doc) - K&G > .

24-2-4 [History of Conflict (tribal, colonial, religionist) in Yemen] - K&G > .

24-3-10 [History of Yemen] Why Houthis Control Half of Yemen - K&G > .

22-10-3 War in Yemen. Is Peace On The Horizon? [no] - gtbt > .

22-6-14 Why Yemen is Dying (and Nobody Cares) - Nova Lectio International > .

Arabia - Saudi Arabia & region - Graydations >> .

Middle East, aNE, North Africa - Guy Lewis >> .

Middle East - Graydations >> .

Iraq - Graydations >> .

Islam - Graydations >> .

Oil - Curse - Penny Wyse >> .

Yemen & Region - anffyddiaeth >> .

Saudi Arabia ..

The Arabian Peninsula ("Island of the Arabs") is a peninsula of Western Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate. At 3,237,500 km2 (1,250,000 sq mi), the Arabian Peninsula is the largest peninsula in the world.

Geographically, the Arabian Peninsula includes Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Yemen, as well as the southern portions of Iraq and Jordan. The biggest of these is Saudi Arabia. The Peninsula, plus Bahrain, the Socotra Archipelago, and other nearby islands form a geopolitical region called Arabia.

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. The peninsula plays a critical geopolitical role in the Arab world and globally due to its vast reserves of oil and natural gas.

Before the modern era, the region was divided into primarily four distinct regions: the Central Plateau (Najd or Al-Yamama), South Arabia, Al-Bahrain (Eastern Arabia or Al-Hassa), and the Hejaz (Tihamah for the western coast), as described by Ibn al-Faqih.