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Red Sea
Red Sea | |
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Basin countries | Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Yemen |
Max. length | 2,250 km (1,400 mi) |
Max. width | 355 km (221 mi) |
Surface area | 438,000 km2 (169,000 sq mi) |
The Red Sea
The Red Sea separates Africa and Southwest Asia. Saudi Arabia and Yemen border the Red Sea in Asia, and Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, and Djibouti border the…
External boundaries. Saudi Arabia’s eastern boundary follows the Persian Gulf from Ras ‘al Khafji to the peninsula of Qatar, whose border with Saudi Arabia was determined in 1965. The Saudi border with the state of Oman, on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, runs through the Empty Quarter (Rub ‘al-Khali).
Oman is the seventieth smallest country in the world which occupies an area of about 119,500 sq miles and has a population of over 4,424,762. The only checkpoint on the Oman-Saudi Arabia border is Ramlat Khaliya. Other countries bordering Saudi Arabia that were not mentioned above include Yemen, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.
In return, Saudi Arabia obtained an outlet to the Persian Gulf through Abu Dhabi. Saudi Arabia’s maritime claims include a twelve-nautical-mile (22 km) territorial limit along its coasts. The country also claims many small islands as well as some seabeds and subsoils beyond the twelve-nautical-mile (22 km) limit.
The Saudi border running southeast from Najran, however, is still undetermined. The undemarcated border became an issue in the early 1990s, when oil was discovered in the area and Saudi Arabia objected to the commercial exploration by foreign companies on behalf of Yemen.