pn A
peninsula in the
Middle East, bordered on by
Jordan, the Syrian desert and
Iraq to the north, the
Persian Gulf to the northeast, the Gulf of Oman to the east, the
Arabian Sea (part of the
Indian Ocean) to the south (southeast), the Gulf of Aden to the south, the
Red Sea to the west (southwest) extending north into the Gulf of Aqaba, and north along the Red Sea Rift to the
Mediterranean Sea on the west (northwest). It consists mainly of
Saudi Arabia, and may be geologically defined as the
tectonic plate|Arabian plate, also as the Arabian
subcontinent.