Brief description of the Arab region
Physical geography
The Arab Region is a land surface situated between 1°35′S and 37°N latitudes and between 60°E and 17°W longitudes. It covers an area of about 14 km2 extending from northwest Africa in the west to the Gulf in the east. The region is bounded by a seacoast 20,000 km long, which results in an overall average ratio of 1.5 m coastline per km2 land surface. The region is occupied by 22 states distributed between three subregions. The western subregion includes Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya; the central comprises Egypt, the Sudan, Djibouti, Somalia, and Comoro Islands; and the eastern subregion comprises Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Yemen (Figure 1).
Map of the Arab Region and the perennial rivers and major wadis traversing its surface.
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Shahin (Deceased), M., Bengtsson, L. (2012). Arab Region, Lakes and Reservoirs. In: Bengtsson, L., Herschy, R.W., Fairbridge, R.W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Lakes and Reservoirs. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4410-6_105
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