The Arab states of the Persian Gulf, also known as the Arab Gulf states (Arabic: دول الخليج العربي), [1] refers to a group of Arab states bordering the Persian Gulf. There are seven member states of the Arab League in the region: Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Saudi …

The Persian Gulf, [a] sometimes called the Arabian Gulf, [b] is a mediterranean sea in West Asia. The body of water is an extension of the Arabian Sea and the larger Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula .

Apr 12, 2025 · Persian Gulf, shallow marginal sea of the Indian Ocean that lies between the Arabian Peninsula and southwestern Iran. The sea has an area of about 93,000 square miles. Its length is some 615 miles, and its width varies from a maximum of …

The Persian Gulf naming dispute concerns the gulf known historically and internationally as the Persian Gulf, [2][3] after Persia or Persis (the homeland of the Persian people) became involved in an ongoing naming dispute.

Jun 28, 2024 · Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates are the names of the seven Gulf countries. In addition, all of these countries, except Iraq, are members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

The Gulf/2000 Project is a service to scholars, government officials, business people, journalists and other specialists who have a professional association with the Persian Gulf and Gulf studies.

Mar 31, 2014 · The Gulf States, loosely grouped together since 1981 in the Gulf Cooperation Council or GCC, have seen crises come and go, but, with the exception of Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, have themselves been spared political catastrophe.

Historically and commonly known as the Persian Gulf, this body of water is sometimes controversially referred to as the Arabian Gulf by certain Arab countries or simply The Gulf, although neither of the latter two terms is recognized internationally.

Jan 30, 2023 · Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates—all U.S. partners and members of the Gulf Cooperation Council—have been divided by interstate squabbles that undermined Washington’s efforts to address the growing terrorist and nuclear threat from Iran.

Gulf Arabic can be defined as a set of closely related and more-or-less mutually intelligible varieties that form a dialect continuum, with the level of mutual intelligibility between any two varieties largely depending on the distance between them.