Arabi Island

Approximate location of Arabi Island

Arabi Island (Arabic: جزيرة العربية‎) is one of the Saudi Arabian islands near Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf. The island measures ten hectares in area.

Along with Farsi, Arabi was once the subject of a territorial dispute between Iran and Saudi Arabia, but the two countries came to an agreement in the 1960s, in which Iran ceded sovereignty of Arabi to Saudi Arabia.^[1]

References

↑ Jayewardene, Hiran Wasantha (1990). The Regime of Islands in International Law. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 423. Retrieved 14 August 2011.

External links

Agreement concerning Sovereignty over the Islands of Farsi and Arabi

Islands of Saudi Arabia

Red Sea's Islands	Farasan Island Farasan Islands Sajid Sanafir Saso Island Tiran Island

Persian Gulf's Islands	Tarout Arabi

Islands of Saudi Arabia at commons

27°46′43″N 50°10′34″E / 27.77861°N 50.17611°E / 27.77861; 50.17611Coordinates: 27°46′43″N 50°10′34″E / 27.77861°N 50.17611°E / 27.77861; 50.17611

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