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</li> <li id="toc-Trade_routes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Trade_routes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Trade routes</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Trade_routes-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Trade routes subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Trade_routes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Major_ports" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Major_ports"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>Major ports</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Major_ports-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Islands" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Islands"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Islands</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Islands-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Major_coastal_cities" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Major_coastal_cities"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Major coastal cities</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Major_coastal_cities-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Oxygen_minimum_zone" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Oxygen_minimum_zone"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Oxygen minimum zone</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Oxygen_minimum_zone-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Environment_and_wildlife" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Environment_and_wildlife"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Environment and wildlife</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Environment_and_wildlife-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Arabian_Sea_warming" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Arabian_Sea_warming"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Arabian Sea warming</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Arabian_Sea_warming-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Native_names" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Native_names"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Native names</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Native_names-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sources" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sources"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13</span> <span>Sources</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sources-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" 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href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabisches_Meer" title="Arabisches Meer – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Arabisches Meer" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-am mw-list-item"><a href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8B%A8%E1%8A%A0%E1%88%A8%E1%89%A2%E1%8B%AB_%E1%89%A3%E1%88%95%E1%88%AD" title="የአረቢያ ባሕር – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="የአረቢያ ባሕር" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>አማርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-anp mw-list-item"><a href="https://anp.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A7%E0%A5%81_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B0" title="सिंधु सागर – Angika" lang="anp" hreflang="anp" data-title="सिंधु सागर" data-language-autonym="अंगिका" data-language-local-name="Angika" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>अंगिका</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%AD%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8" title="بحر العرب – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="بحر العرب" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hyw mw-list-item"><a href="https://hyw.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%A2%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D4%BE%D5%B8%D5%BE" title="Արաբական Ծով – Western Armenian" lang="hyw" hreflang="hyw" data-title="Արաբական Ծով" data-language-autonym="Արեւմտահայերէն" data-language-local-name="Western Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Արեւմտահայերէն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-as mw-list-item"><a href="https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%86%E0%A7%B0%E0%A7%B1_%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%B0" title="আৰৱ সাগৰ – Assamese" lang="as" hreflang="as" data-title="আৰৱ সাগৰ" data-language-autonym="অসমীয়া" data-language-local-name="Assamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>অসমীয়া</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar_Ar%C3%A1bigu" title="Mar Arábigu – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Mar Arábigu" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-awa mw-list-item"><a href="https://awa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AC_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B0" title="अरब सागर – Awadhi" lang="awa" hreflang="awa" data-title="अरब सागर" data-language-autonym="अवधी" data-language-local-name="Awadhi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>अवधी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gn mw-list-item"><a href="https://gn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Para_%C3%81rave" title="Para Árave – Guarani" lang="gn" hreflang="gn" data-title="Para Árave" data-language-autonym="Avañe'ẽ" data-language-local-name="Guarani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Avañe'ẽ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C6%8Fr%C9%99bistan_d%C9%99nizi" title="Ərəbistan dənizi – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Ərəbistan dənizi" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8_%D8%AF%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B2%DB%8C" title="عرب دنیزی – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="عرب دنیزی" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ban mw-list-item"><a href="https://ban.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segara_Arab" title="Segara Arab – Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" data-title="Segara Arab" data-language-autonym="Basa Bali" data-language-local-name="Balinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Bali</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%AC_%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%B0" title="আরব সাগর – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="আরব সাগর" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-la-pek_H%C3%A1i" title="A-la-pek Hái – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="A-la-pek Hái" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D2%92%D3%99%D1%80%D3%99%D0%B1%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%B4%D0%B8%D2%A3%D0%B3%D0%B5%D2%99%D0%B5" title="Ғәрәбстан диңгеҙе – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Ғәрәбстан диңгеҙе" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B5_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0" title="Аравійскае мора – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Аравійскае мора" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B5_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0" title="Арабскае мора – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Арабскае мора" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AC_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B0" title="अरब सागर – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="अरब सागर" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5" title="Арабско море – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Арабско море" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapsko_more" title="Arapsko more – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Arapsko more" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mor_Arabia" title="Mor Arabia – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Mor Arabia" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bxr mw-list-item"><a href="https://bxr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D1%82%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%81" title="Аравиин тэнгис – Russia Buriat" lang="bxr" hreflang="bxr" data-title="Аравиин тэнгис" data-language-autonym="Буряад" data-language-local-name="Russia Buriat" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Буряад</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar_d%27Ar%C3%A0bia" title="Mar d'Aràbia – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Mar d'Aràbia" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8_%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%C4%95%D1%81%C4%95" title="Арави тинĕсĕ – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Арави тинĕсĕ" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabsk%C3%A9_mo%C5%99e" title="Arabské moře – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Arabské moře" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B4r_Arabia" title="Môr Arabia – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Môr Arabia" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Det_Arabiske_Hav" title="Det Arabiske Hav – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Det Arabiske Hav" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabisches_Meer" title="Arabisches Meer – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Arabisches Meer" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dv mw-list-item"><a href="https://dv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DE%A2%DE%A6%DE%83%DE%A6%DE%84%DE%A8_%DE%86%DE%A6%DE%82%DE%91%DE%AA" title="ޢަރަބި ކަނޑު – Divehi" lang="dv" hreflang="dv" data-title="ޢަރަބި ކަނޑު" data-language-autonym="ދިވެހިބަސް" data-language-local-name="Divehi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ދިވެހިބަސް</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://dsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabiske_m%C3%B3rjo" title="Arabiske mórjo – Lower Sorbian" lang="dsb" hreflang="dsb" data-title="Arabiske mórjo" data-language-autonym="Dolnoserbski" data-language-local-name="Lower Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dolnoserbski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araabia_meri" title="Araabia meri – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Araabia meri" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%B2%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE_%CE%98%CE%AC%CE%BB%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%83%CE%B1" title="Αραβική Θάλασσα – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Αραβική Θάλασσα" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar_ar%C3%A1bigo" title="Mar arábigo – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Mar arábigo" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araba_Maro" title="Araba Maro – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Araba Maro" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabiako_itsasoa" title="Arabiako itsasoa – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Arabiako itsasoa" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8" title="دریای عرب – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="دریای عرب" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hif mw-list-item"><a href="https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_Samundar" title="Arabian Samundar – Fiji Hindi" lang="hif" hreflang="hif" data-title="Arabian Samundar" data-language-autonym="Fiji Hindi" data-language-local-name="Fiji Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Fiji Hindi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mer_d%27Arabie" title="Mer d'Arabie – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Mer d'Arabie" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabyske_See" title="Arabyske See – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Arabyske See" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Mhuir_Arabach" title="An Mhuir Arabach – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="An Mhuir Arabach" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar_Ar%C3%A1bigo" title="Mar Arábigo – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Mar Arábigo" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gu mw-list-item"><a href="https://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%85%E0%AA%B0%E0%AA%AC%E0%AB%80_%E0%AA%B8%E0%AA%AE%E0%AB%81%E0%AA%A6%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%B0" title="અરબી સમુદ્ર – Gujarati" lang="gu" hreflang="gu" data-title="અરબી સમુદ્ર" data-language-autonym="ગુજરાતી" data-language-local-name="Gujarati" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ગુજરાતી</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gom mw-list-item"><a href="https://gom.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AC_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B0" title="अरब सागर – Goan Konkani" lang="gom" hreflang="gom" data-title="अरब सागर" data-language-autonym="गोंयची कोंकणी / Gõychi Konknni" data-language-local-name="Goan Konkani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>गोंयची कोंकणी / Gõychi Konknni</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%84%EB%9D%BC%EB%B9%84%EC%95%84%ED%95%B4" title="아라비아해 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="아라비아해" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%A2%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D5%AE%D5%B8%D5%BE" title="Արաբական ծով – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Արաբական ծով" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AC_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B0" title="अरब सागर – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="अरब सागर" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabske_morjo" title="Arabske morjo – Upper Sorbian" lang="hsb" hreflang="hsb" data-title="Arabske morjo" data-language-autonym="Hornjoserbsce" data-language-local-name="Upper Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hornjoserbsce</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapsko_more" title="Arapsko more – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Arapsko more" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araba_maro" title="Araba maro – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Araba maro" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baybay_Arabiano" title="Baybay Arabiano – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="Baybay Arabiano" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ilokano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laut_Arab" title="Laut Arab – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Laut Arab" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B1%D1%8B_%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B6%D1%8B%D0%B7" title="Араббы денджыз – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Араббы денджыз" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab%C3%ADuhaf" title="Arabíuhaf – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Arabíuhaf" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar_Arabico" title="Mar Arabico – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Mar Arabico" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99" title="הים הערבי – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="הים הערבי" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%85%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%AC%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AC%E0%B3%80_%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%A6%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B0" title="ಅರಬ್ಬೀ ಸಮುದ್ರ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಅರಬ್ಬೀ ಸಮುದ್ರ" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90%E1%83%91%E1%83%94%E1%83%97%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%96%E1%83%A6%E1%83%95%E1%83%90" title="არაბეთის ზღვა – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="არაბეთის ზღვა" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D1%82%D0%B5%D2%A3%D1%96%D0%B7%D1%96" title="Арабия теңізі – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Арабия теңізі" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahari_ya_Kiarabu" title="Bahari ya Kiarabu – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Bahari ya Kiarabu" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deryaya_Ereb%C3%AE" title="Deryaya Erebî – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Deryaya Erebî" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1_%D0%B4%D0%B5%D2%A3%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B8" title="Араб деңизи – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Араб деңизи" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_Arabicum" title="Mare Arabicum – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Mare Arabicum" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ar%C4%81bijas_j%C5%ABra" title="Arābijas jūra – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Arābijas jūra" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabescht_Mier" title="Arabescht Mier – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Arabescht Mier" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabijos_j%C5%ABra" title="Arabijos jūra – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Arabijos jūra" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab-tenger" title="Arab-tenger – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Arab-tenger" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mai mw-list-item"><a href="https://mai.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AC_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B0" title="अरब सागर – Maithili" lang="mai" hreflang="mai" data-title="अरब सागर" data-language-autonym="मैथिली" data-language-local-name="Maithili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मैथिली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BF%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5" title="Арапско Море – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Арапско Море" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranomasin%27_i_Arabia" title="Ranomasin' i Arabia – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Ranomasin' i Arabia" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%85%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%AC%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%BD" title="അറബിക്കടൽ – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="അറബിക്കടൽ" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0" title="अरबी समुद्र – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="अरबी समुद्र" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90%E1%83%91%E1%83%94%E1%83%97%E1%83%98%E1%83%A8_%E1%83%96%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A6%E1%83%90" title="არაბეთიშ ზუღა – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="არაბეთიშ ზუღა" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%AD%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8" title="بحر العرب – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="بحر العرب" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8_%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7" title="عرب دریا – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="عرب دریا" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laut_Arab" title="Laut Arab – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Laut Arab" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%8B%D0%BD_%D1%82%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%81" title="Арабын тэнгис – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Арабын тэнгис" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%A1%E1%80%AC%E1%80%9B%E1%80%B1%E1%80%97%E1%80%BB%E1%80%95%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%9C%E1%80%9A%E1%80%BA" title="အာရေဗျပင်လယ် – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="အာရေဗျပင်လယ်" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabische_Zee" title="Arabische Zee – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Arabische Zee" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AC_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B0" title="अरब सागर – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="अरब सागर" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A9%E3%83%93%E3%82%A2%E6%B5%B7" title="アラビア海 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="アラビア海" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D3%80%D0%B0%D1%8C%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%B9%D0%BD_%D1%85%D3%80%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4" title="Ӏаьрбийн хӀорд – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Ӏаьрбийн хӀорд" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araabisk_Sia" title="Araabisk Sia – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Araabisk Sia" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabiahavet" title="Arabiahavet – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Arabiahavet" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabiahavet" title="Arabiahavet – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Arabiahavet" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar_d%27Arabia" title="Mar d'Arabia – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Mar d'Arabia" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-or mw-list-item"><a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%86%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%AC_%E0%AC%B8%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%97%E0%AC%B0" title="ଆରବ ସାଗର – Odia" lang="or" hreflang="or" data-title="ଆରବ ସାଗର" data-language-autonym="ଓଡ଼ିଆ" data-language-local-name="Odia" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ଓଡ଼ିଆ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabiston_dengizi" title="Arabiston dengizi – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Arabiston dengizi" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%85%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%AC_%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%97%E0%A8%B0" title="ਅਰਬ ਸਾਗਰ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਅਰਬ ਸਾਗਰ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1" title="عرب سمندر – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="عرب سمندر" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%88_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1" title="عربو سمندر – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="عربو سمندر" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-km mw-list-item"><a href="https://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%9E%9F%E1%9E%98%E1%9E%BB%E1%9E%91%E1%9F%92%E1%9E%9A%E1%9E%A2%E1%9E%B6%E1%9E%9A%E1%9F%89%E1%9E%B6%E1%9E%94%E1%9F%8B" title="សមុទ្រអារ៉ាប់ – Khmer" lang="km" hreflang="km" data-title="សមុទ្រអារ៉ាប់" data-language-autonym="ភាសាខ្មែរ" data-language-local-name="Khmer" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ភាសាខ្មែរ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araabsche_See" title="Araabsche See – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="Araabsche See" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Plattdüütsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morze_Arabskie" title="Morze Arabskie – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Morze Arabskie" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar_Ar%C3%A1bico" title="Mar Arábico – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Mar Arábico" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marea_Arabiei" title="Marea Arabiei – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Marea Arabiei" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B5_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5" title="Аравийское море – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Аравийское море" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deti_Arabik" title="Deti Arabik – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Deti Arabik" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%85%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%8F%E0%B6%B6%E0%B7%92_%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%94%E0%B7%84%E0%B7%94%E0%B6%AF" title="අරාබි මුහුද – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="අරාබි මුහුද" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>සිංහල</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_Sea" title="Arabian Sea – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Arabian Sea" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%86%DA%8A" title="عربي سمنڊ – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="عربي سمنڊ" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سنڌي</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabsk%C3%A9_more" title="Arabské more – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Arabské more" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabsko_morje" title="Arabsko morje – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Arabsko morje" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-so mw-list-item"><a href="https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bada_Carbeed" title="Bada Carbeed – Somali" lang="so" hreflang="so" data-title="Bada Carbeed" data-language-autonym="Soomaaliga" data-language-local-name="Somali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Soomaaliga</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%95%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D8%B9%DB%95%D8%B1%DB%95%D8%A8" title="دەریای عەرەب – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="دەریای عەرەب" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%98%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5" title="Арабијско море – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Арабијско море" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapsko_more" title="Arapsko more – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Arapsko more" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabianmeri" title="Arabianmeri – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Arabianmeri" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabiska_havet" title="Arabiska havet – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Arabiska havet" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%85%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D" title="அரபிக்கடல் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="அரபிக்கடல்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kab mw-list-item"><a href="https://kab.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilel_a%C9%9Brab" title="Ilel aɛrab – Kabyle" lang="kab" hreflang="kab" data-title="Ilel aɛrab" data-language-autonym="Taqbaylit" data-language-local-name="Kabyle" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Taqbaylit</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%9E%C3%A4r%C3%A4bstan_di%C3%B1geze" title="Ğäräbstan diñgeze – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Ğäräbstan diñgeze" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%85%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%AC%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AC%E0%B1%80_%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%82" title="అరబ్బీ సముద్రం – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="అరబ్బీ సముద్రం" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>తెలుగు</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%B0%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%9A" title="ทะเลอาหรับ – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="ทะเลอาหรับ" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D2%B3%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1" title="Баҳри Араб – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Баҳри Араб" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Тоҷикӣ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umman_Denizi" title="Umman Denizi – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Umman Denizi" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B9%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B5_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5" title="Аравійське море – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Аравійське море" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%AD%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%81_%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8" title="بحیرہ عرب – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="بحیرہ عرب" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi%E1%BB%83n_%E1%BA%A2_R%E1%BA%ADp" title="Biển Ả Rập – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Biển Ả Rập" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-war mw-list-item"><a href="https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagat_Arabya" title="Dagat Arabya – Waray" lang="war" hreflang="war" data-title="Dagat Arabya" data-language-autonym="Winaray" data-language-local-name="Waray" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Winaray</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%BF%E6%8B%89%E4%BC%AF%E6%B5%B7" title="阿拉伯海 – Wu" lang="wuu" hreflang="wuu" data-title="阿拉伯海" data-language-autonym="吴语" data-language-local-name="Wu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>吴语</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-yo mw-list-item"><a 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<a href="/wiki/South_Asia" title="South Asia">South Asia</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span title="Geographical coordinates">Coordinates</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Arabian_Sea&params=14_N_65_E_type:waterbody_scale:10000000"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">14°N</span> <span class="longitude">65°E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">14°N 65°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">14; 65</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Body_of_water#Waterbody_types" title="Body of water">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Sea" title="Sea">Sea</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Part of</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Indian_Ocean" title="Indian Ocean">Indian Ocean</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Drainage_basin" title="Drainage basin">Basin</a> countries</th><td class="infobox-data">India<br />Iran<br />Maldives<br />Oman<br />Pakistan<br />Seychelles<br />Somalia<br />Sri Lanka<br />Yemen</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-bottom: #cedeff 1px solid"></th></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Max. width</th><td class="infobox-data">2,400 km (1,500 mi)</td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Surface area</th><td class="infobox-data">3,862,000 km<sup>2</sup> (1,491,000 sq mi) (3,600,000 to 4,600,000 km2 in various sources)</td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Max. depth</th><td class="infobox-data">4,652 m (15,262 ft)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-bottom: #cedeff 1px solid"></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Category:Islands_by_body_of_water" title="Category:Islands by body of water">Islands</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Astola_island" class="mw-redirect" title="Astola island">Astola island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Basavaraj_Durga_Island" title="Basavaraj Durga Island">Basavaraj Durga Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bundal_Island" title="Bundal Island">Bundal Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charna_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Charna Island">Charna Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clifton_Oyster_Rocks" class="mw-redirect" title="Clifton Oyster Rocks">Clifton Oyster Rocks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Khiprianwala_Island" title="Khiprianwala Island">Khiprianwala Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lakshadweep" title="Lakshadweep">Lakshadweep</a>, <a href="/wiki/Malan_Island" title="Malan Island">Malan Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manora_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Manora Island">Manora Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Masirah_Island" title="Masirah Island">Masirah Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Piram_Island" title="Piram Island">Piram Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pirotan" title="Pirotan">Pirotan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shams_Pir" class="mw-redirect" title="Shams Pir">Shams Pir</a>, <a href="/wiki/Socotra_Archipelago" class="mw-redirect" title="Socotra Archipelago">Socotra Archipelago</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Arabian Sea</b> (<a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: <span lang="ar" dir="rtl">بَحرُ ٱلْعَرَبْ</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Arabic" title="Romanization of Arabic">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Arabic-language romanization"><i lang="ar-Latn">baḥr al-ʿarab</i></span>)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a region of <a href="/wiki/Sea" title="Sea">sea</a> in the northern <a href="/wiki/Indian_Ocean" title="Indian Ocean">Indian Ocean</a>, bounded on the west by the <a href="/wiki/Arabian_Peninsula" title="Arabian Peninsula">Arabian Peninsula</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Aden" title="Gulf of Aden">Gulf of Aden</a> and <a href="/wiki/Guardafui_Channel" title="Guardafui Channel">Guardafui Channel</a>, on the northwest by <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Oman" title="Gulf of Oman">Gulf of Oman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>, on the north by <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>, on the east by <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, and on the southeast by the <a href="/wiki/Laccadive_Sea" title="Laccadive Sea">Laccadive Sea</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Maldives" title="Maldives">Maldives</a>, on the southwest by <a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its total area is 3,862,000 km<sup>2</sup> (1,491,000 sq mi) and its maximum depth is 5,395 meters (17,700 feet). The Gulf of Aden in the west connects the Arabian Sea to the <a href="/wiki/Red_Sea" title="Red Sea">Red Sea</a> through the strait of <a href="/wiki/Bab-el-Mandeb" title="Bab-el-Mandeb">Bab-el-Mandeb</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Oman" title="Gulf of Oman">Gulf of Oman</a> is in the northwest, connecting it to the <a href="/wiki/Persian_Gulf" title="Persian Gulf">Persian Gulf</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arabian_Sea&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Arabian Sea's surface area is about 3,862,000 km<sup>2</sup> (1,491,130 sq mi).<sup id="cite_ref-Britannica_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Britannica-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The maximum width of the sea is approximately 2,400 km (1,490 mi), and its maximum depth is 5,395 metres (17,700 ft).<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The biggest river flowing into the sea is the <a href="/wiki/Indus_River" title="Indus River">Indus River</a>. </p><p>The Arabian Sea has two important branches: the Gulf of Aden in the southwest, connecting with the Red Sea through the strait of <a href="/wiki/Bab-el-Mandeb" title="Bab-el-Mandeb">Bab-el-Mandeb</a>; and the Gulf of Oman to the northwest, connecting with the Persian Gulf. There are also the gulfs of <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Khambhat" title="Gulf of Khambhat">Khambhat</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Kutch" title="Gulf of Kutch">Kutch</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Coastal_South_West_India" title="Coastal South West India">Indian Coast</a>. The Arabian Sea has been crossed by many important marine trade routes since the 3rd or 2nd millennium BCE. Major seaports include <a href="/wiki/Kandla" title="Kandla">Kandla Port</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mundra_Port" title="Mundra Port">Mundra Port</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pipavav_Port" class="mw-redirect" title="Pipavav Port">Pipavav Port</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dahej_Port" title="Dahej Port">Dahej Port</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hazira_Port" title="Hazira Port">Hazira Port</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mumbai_Port_Trust" class="mw-redirect" title="Mumbai Port Trust">Mumbai Port</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru_Port" title="Jawaharlal Nehru Port">Nhava Sheva Port (Navi Mumbai)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mormugao" title="Mormugao">Mormugão Port (Goa)</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Mangalore_Port" title="New Mangalore Port">New Mangalore Port</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cochin_Port" title="Cochin Port">Kochi Port</a> in India, the <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Karachi" title="Port of Karachi">Port of Karachi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Port_Qasim" title="Port Qasim">Port Qasim</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Gwadar_Port" title="Gwadar Port">Gwadar Port</a> in Pakistan, <a href="/wiki/Chabahar_Port" title="Chabahar Port">Chabahar Port</a> in Iran and the <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Salalah" title="Port of Salalah">Port of Salalah</a> in <a href="/wiki/Salalah" title="Salalah">Salalah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oman" title="Oman">Oman</a>. The largest islands in the Arabian Sea include <a href="/wiki/Socotra" title="Socotra">Socotra</a> (<a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen">Yemen</a>), <a href="/wiki/Masirah_Island" title="Masirah Island">Masirah Island</a> (Oman), <a href="/wiki/Lakshadweep" title="Lakshadweep">Lakshadweep</a> (India) and <a href="/wiki/Astola_Island" title="Astola Island">Astola Island</a> (Pakistan). The countries with coastlines on the Arabian Sea are Yemen, Oman, Pakistan, Iran, India and the <a href="/wiki/Maldives" title="Maldives">Maldives</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Britannica_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Britannica-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Limits">Limits</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arabian_Sea&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Limits"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/International_Hydrographic_Organization" title="International Hydrographic Organization">International Hydrographic Organization</a> defines the limits of the Arabian Sea as follows:<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>On the west: the eastern limit of the Gulf of Aden.</li> <li>On the north: a line joining <a href="/wiki/Ras_al_Hadd" title="Ras al Hadd">Ràs al Hadd</a>, east point of the <a href="/wiki/Arabian_Peninsula" title="Arabian Peninsula">Arabian Peninsula</a> (22°32'N) and <a href="/wiki/Jiwani" title="Jiwani">Ràs Jiyùni</a> (61°43'E) on the coast of Pakistan.</li> <li>On the south: a line running from the southern extremity of <a href="/wiki/Addu_Atoll" class="mw-redirect" title="Addu Atoll">Addu Atoll</a> in the Maldives, to the eastern extremity of <a href="/wiki/Ras_Hafun" title="Ras Hafun">Ràs Hafun</a> (the easternmost point of <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">Africa</a>, 10°26'N).</li> <li>On the east: the western limit of the Laccadive Sea a line running from <a href="/wiki/Sadashivgad" title="Sadashivgad">Sadashivgad</a> on the west coast of India (<span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Arabian_Sea&params=14_48_N_74_07_E_"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">14°48′N</span> <span class="longitude">74°07′E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">14.800°N 74.117°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">14.800; 74.117</span></span></span></a></span></span>) to <a href="/wiki/Cora_Divh" title="Cora Divh">Cora Divh</a> (<span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Arabian_Sea&params=13_42_N_72_10_E_"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">13°42′N</span> <span class="longitude">72°10′E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">13.700°N 72.167°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">13.700; 72.167</span></span></span></a></span></span>) and thence down the west side of the <a href="/wiki/Lakshadweep" title="Lakshadweep">Laccadive</a> and Maldive archipelagos to the most southerly point of <a href="/wiki/Addu_Atoll" class="mw-redirect" title="Addu Atoll">Addu Atoll</a> in the Maldives.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hydrography">Hydrography</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arabian_Sea&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Hydrography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/International_Indian_Ocean_Expedition" title="International Indian Ocean Expedition">International Indian Ocean Expedition</a> in 1959 was among the first to perform hydrographic surveys of the Arabian Sea. Significant bathymetric surveys were also conducted by the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> during the 1960s.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Hydrographic_features">Hydrographic features</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arabian_Sea&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Hydrographic features"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Significant features in the northern Arabian Sea include the <a href="/wiki/Indus_Fan" title="Indus Fan">Indus Fan</a>, the second largest fan system in the world. The De Covilhao Trough, named after the 15th century <a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portuguese</a> explorer <a href="/wiki/P%C3%AAro_da_Covilh%C3%A3" title="Pêro da Covilhã">Pero de Covilhăo</a>, reaches depths of 4,400 metres (14,436 ft) and separates the Indus Fan region from the Oman Abyssal Plain, which eventually leads to the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Oman" title="Gulf of Oman">Gulf of Oman</a>. </p><p>The southern limits are dominated by the <a href="/wiki/Arabian_Basin" title="Arabian Basin">Arabian Basin</a>, a deep basin reaching depths over 4,200 metres (13,780 ft). The northern sections of the <a href="/wiki/Carlsberg_Ridge" title="Carlsberg Ridge">Carlsberg Ridge</a> flank the southern edge of the Arabian Basin. </p><p>The deepest parts of the Arabian Sea are in the Alula-Fartak Trough on the western edge of the Arabian Sea off the Gulf of Aden. The trough, reaching depths over 5,360 metres (17,585 ft), traverses the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea. The deepest known point is in the Arabian Sea limits at a depth of 5,395 metres (17,700 ft). Other significant deep points are part of the Arabian Basin, which include a 5,358 metres (17,579 ft) deep point off the northern limit of Calrsberg Ridge.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Seamounts">Seamounts</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arabian_Sea&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Seamounts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Prominent <a href="/wiki/Sea_mount" class="mw-redirect" title="Sea mount">sea mounts</a> off the Indian west coast include Raman Seamount named after <a href="/wiki/C._V._Raman" title="C. V. Raman">C. V. Raman</a>, Panikkar Seamount, named after <a href="/wiki/N._Kesava_Panikkar" title="N. Kesava Panikkar">N. K. Panikkar</a>, and the Wadia <a href="/wiki/Guyot" title="Guyot">Guyot</a>, named after <a href="/wiki/Darashaw_Nosherwan_Wadia" title="Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia">D. N. Wadia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sind'Bad Seamount, named after the fictional explorer <a href="/wiki/Sinbad_the_Sailor" title="Sinbad the Sailor">Sinbad the Sailor</a>, Zheng He Seamount, and the Mount Error Guyot are some notable sea mounts in western Arabian Sea.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Border_and_basin_countries">Border and basin countries</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arabian_Sea&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Border and basin countries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Border and basin countries:<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ol><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> - 2,500 km coastline</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a> - 1,050 km coastline</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/23px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/35px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/46px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="630" data-file-height="360" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Maldives.svg/23px-Flag_of_Maldives.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Maldives.svg/35px-Flag_of_Maldives.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Maldives.svg/45px-Flag_of_Maldives.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="480" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Maldives" title="Maldives">Maldives</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Oman.svg/23px-Flag_of_Oman.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Oman.svg/35px-Flag_of_Oman.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Oman.svg/46px-Flag_of_Oman.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Oman" title="Oman">Oman</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/23px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/35px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/45px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen">Yemen</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Flag_of_Somalia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Somalia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Flag_of_Somalia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Somalia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Flag_of_Somalia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Somalia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a></li></ol> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bandra_Sea_Link_aerial.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Arabian Sea above Bombay/Mumbai"><img alt="Arabian Sea above Bombay/Mumbai" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Bandra_Sea_Link_aerial.jpg/240px-Bandra_Sea_Link_aerial.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Bandra_Sea_Link_aerial.jpg/360px-Bandra_Sea_Link_aerial.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Bandra_Sea_Link_aerial.jpg/480px-Bandra_Sea_Link_aerial.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1632" data-file-height="1224" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Arabian Sea above Bombay/Mumbai</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 113.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 111.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Arabian_Sea_-_October_2012.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Arabian Sea seen from space"><img alt="Arabian Sea seen from space" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Arabian_Sea_-_October_2012.jpg/167px-Arabian_Sea_-_October_2012.jpg" decoding="async" width="112" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Arabian_Sea_-_October_2012.jpg/250px-Arabian_Sea_-_October_2012.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Arabian_Sea_-_October_2012.jpg/333px-Arabian_Sea_-_October_2012.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4092" data-file-height="4422" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Arabian Sea seen from space</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Arabian_Sea_in_Karachi.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Arabian Sea in Karachi, Pakistan"><img alt="Arabian Sea in Karachi, Pakistan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Arabian_Sea_in_Karachi.jpg/240px-Arabian_Sea_in_Karachi.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Arabian_Sea_in_Karachi.jpg/360px-Arabian_Sea_in_Karachi.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Arabian_Sea_in_Karachi.jpg/480px-Arabian_Sea_in_Karachi.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4080" data-file-height="3060" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Arabian Sea in Karachi, Pakistan</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Alternative_names">Alternative names</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arabian_Sea&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Alternative names"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output 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data-file-height="40" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This article <b>needs attention from an expert in geography</b>. The specific problem is: <b>This article possibly contains <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Synthesis" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Synthesis">synthesis</a> of material and claims which does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:VERIFY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:VERIFY">verifiably</a> relate to the topic.</b> See the <a href="/wiki/Talk:Arabian_Sea#Alternative_names" title="Talk:Arabian Sea">talk page</a> for details.<span class="hide-when-compact"> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geography" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Geography">WikiProject Geography</a> may be able to help recruit an expert.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">April 2023</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The Arabian Sea historically and geographically has been referred to with different names by <a href="/wiki/Arabian" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabian">Arabian</a> and European geographers and travelers, including <a href="/wiki/Erythraean_Sea" title="Erythraean Sea">Erythraean Sea</a>, Indian Sea, <a href="/wiki/Oman_sea" class="mw-redirect" title="Oman sea">Oman sea</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Kamat_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kamat-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Erythraean, Persian Sea in para No 34-35 of the Voyage.<sup id="cite_ref-Periplus_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Periplus-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Indian folklore, it is referred to as Darya, Sindhu Sagar, Arab Samudra.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Arab geographers, sailors and nomads used to call this sea by different names, including the Akhdar (Green) Sea, Bahre Fars (Persian Sea), the Ocean Sea, the Hindu sea, the Makran Sea, the sea of Oman; among them <a href="/wiki/Zakariya_al-Qazwini" title="Zakariya al-Qazwini">Zakariya al-Qazwini</a>, <a href="/wiki/Al-Masudi" title="Al-Masudi">Al-Masudi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ibn_Hawqal" title="Ibn Hawqal">Ibn Hawqal</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hafiz-i_Abru" title="Hafiz-i Abru">Hafiz-i Abru</a>. They wrote: "The green sea and Indian sea and Persian sea are all one sea and in this sea there are strange creatures." in Iran and Turkey people call it Oman sea.<sup id="cite_ref-MFA_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MFA-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/Periplus_of_the_Erythraean_Sea" title="Periplus of the Erythraean Sea">Periplus of the Erythraean Sea</a>, as well as in some ancient maps, Erythraean Sea refers to the whole area of the northwestern Indian Ocean, including the Arabian Sea.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 160.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 158.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Soulier,_E.;_Andriveau-Goujon,_J._Anciens_Empires_Jusqua_Alexandre._1838.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Erythraean Sea 1838."><img alt="Erythraean Sea 1838." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Soulier%2C_E.%3B_Andriveau-Goujon%2C_J._Anciens_Empires_Jusqua_Alexandre._1838.jpg/238px-Soulier%2C_E.%3B_Andriveau-Goujon%2C_J._Anciens_Empires_Jusqua_Alexandre._1838.jpg" decoding="async" width="159" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Soulier%2C_E.%3B_Andriveau-Goujon%2C_J._Anciens_Empires_Jusqua_Alexandre._1838.jpg/356px-Soulier%2C_E.%3B_Andriveau-Goujon%2C_J._Anciens_Empires_Jusqua_Alexandre._1838.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Soulier%2C_E.%3B_Andriveau-Goujon%2C_J._Anciens_Empires_Jusqua_Alexandre._1838.jpg/475px-Soulier%2C_E.%3B_Andriveau-Goujon%2C_J._Anciens_Empires_Jusqua_Alexandre._1838.jpg 2x" data-file-width="9636" data-file-height="7302" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Erythraean_Sea" title="Erythraean Sea">Erythraean Sea</a> 1838.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 145.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 143.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1658_Jansson_Map_of_the_Indian_Ocean_(Erythrean_Sea)_in_Antiquity_-_Geographicus_-_ErythraeanSea-jansson-1658.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="1658 Jansson Map of the Indian Ocean (Erythraean Sea)"><img alt="1658 Jansson Map of the Indian Ocean (Erythraean Sea)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/1658_Jansson_Map_of_the_Indian_Ocean_%28Erythrean_Sea%29_in_Antiquity_-_Geographicus_-_ErythraeanSea-jansson-1658.jpg/215px-1658_Jansson_Map_of_the_Indian_Ocean_%28Erythrean_Sea%29_in_Antiquity_-_Geographicus_-_ErythraeanSea-jansson-1658.jpg" decoding="async" width="144" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/1658_Jansson_Map_of_the_Indian_Ocean_%28Erythrean_Sea%29_in_Antiquity_-_Geographicus_-_ErythraeanSea-jansson-1658.jpg/322px-1658_Jansson_Map_of_the_Indian_Ocean_%28Erythrean_Sea%29_in_Antiquity_-_Geographicus_-_ErythraeanSea-jansson-1658.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/1658_Jansson_Map_of_the_Indian_Ocean_%28Erythrean_Sea%29_in_Antiquity_-_Geographicus_-_ErythraeanSea-jansson-1658.jpg/429px-1658_Jansson_Map_of_the_Indian_Ocean_%28Erythrean_Sea%29_in_Antiquity_-_Geographicus_-_ErythraeanSea-jansson-1658.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5000" data-file-height="4194" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">1658 <a href="/wiki/Jan_Janssonius" title="Jan Janssonius">Jansson</a> Map of the Indian Ocean (<a href="/wiki/Erythraean_Sea" title="Erythraean Sea">Erythraean Sea</a>)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_western_part_of_the_Indian_Ocean,_by_Vincenzo_Maria_Coronelli,_1693,_from_his_system_of_global_gores_the_south.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The western part of the Indian Ocean,1693"><img alt="The western part of the Indian Ocean,1693" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/The_western_part_of_the_Indian_Ocean%2C_by_Vincenzo_Maria_Coronelli%2C_1693%2C_from_his_system_of_global_gores_the_south.jpg/240px-The_western_part_of_the_Indian_Ocean%2C_by_Vincenzo_Maria_Coronelli%2C_1693%2C_from_his_system_of_global_gores_the_south.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/The_western_part_of_the_Indian_Ocean%2C_by_Vincenzo_Maria_Coronelli%2C_1693%2C_from_his_system_of_global_gores_the_south.jpg/360px-The_western_part_of_the_Indian_Ocean%2C_by_Vincenzo_Maria_Coronelli%2C_1693%2C_from_his_system_of_global_gores_the_south.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/The_western_part_of_the_Indian_Ocean%2C_by_Vincenzo_Maria_Coronelli%2C_1693%2C_from_his_system_of_global_gores_the_south.jpg/480px-The_western_part_of_the_Indian_Ocean%2C_by_Vincenzo_Maria_Coronelli%2C_1693%2C_from_his_system_of_global_gores_the_south.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The western part of the Indian Ocean,1693</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 154.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 152.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:PeriplusAncientMap.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="17th century map depicting the locations of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea"><img alt="17th century map depicting the locations of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/PeriplusAncientMap.jpg/229px-PeriplusAncientMap.jpg" decoding="async" width="153" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/PeriplusAncientMap.jpg/344px-PeriplusAncientMap.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/PeriplusAncientMap.jpg/458px-PeriplusAncientMap.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1524" data-file-height="1198" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">17th century map depicting the locations of the <i><a href="/wiki/Periplus_of_the_Erythraean_Sea" title="Periplus of the Erythraean Sea">Periplus of the Erythraean Sea</a></i></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:A_horizontal_Malabar_Coast_miniature,_a_reprint_by_Petrus_Bertius,_1630.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A horizontal Malabar Coast miniature, a reprint by Petrus Bertius, 1630"><img alt="A horizontal Malabar Coast miniature, a reprint by Petrus Bertius, 1630" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/A_horizontal_Malabar_Coast_miniature%2C_a_reprint_by_Petrus_Bertius%2C_1630.jpg/241px-A_horizontal_Malabar_Coast_miniature%2C_a_reprint_by_Petrus_Bertius%2C_1630.jpg" decoding="async" width="161" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/A_horizontal_Malabar_Coast_miniature%2C_a_reprint_by_Petrus_Bertius%2C_1630.jpg/361px-A_horizontal_Malabar_Coast_miniature%2C_a_reprint_by_Petrus_Bertius%2C_1630.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/A_horizontal_Malabar_Coast_miniature%2C_a_reprint_by_Petrus_Bertius%2C_1630.jpg/481px-A_horizontal_Malabar_Coast_miniature%2C_a_reprint_by_Petrus_Bertius%2C_1630.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="449" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">A horizontal Malabar Coast miniature, a reprint by <a href="/wiki/Petrus_Bertius" title="Petrus Bertius">Petrus Bertius</a>, 1630</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Basra-ps64.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Persian Sea"><img alt="Persian Sea" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Basra-ps64.JPG/240px-Basra-ps64.JPG" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Basra-ps64.JPG/360px-Basra-ps64.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Basra-ps64.JPG/480px-Basra-ps64.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="960" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Persian Sea</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 151.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 149.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1580s_pictorial_map_by_Heinrich_B%C3%BCnting,_depicting_Asia_as_Pegasus.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Asia. Sinus Persicus and the Mare Persicum"><img alt="Asia. Sinus Persicus and the Mare Persicum" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/1580s_pictorial_map_by_Heinrich_B%C3%BCnting%2C_depicting_Asia_as_Pegasus.jpg/224px-1580s_pictorial_map_by_Heinrich_B%C3%BCnting%2C_depicting_Asia_as_Pegasus.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/1580s_pictorial_map_by_Heinrich_B%C3%BCnting%2C_depicting_Asia_as_Pegasus.jpg/337px-1580s_pictorial_map_by_Heinrich_B%C3%BCnting%2C_depicting_Asia_as_Pegasus.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/1580s_pictorial_map_by_Heinrich_B%C3%BCnting%2C_depicting_Asia_as_Pegasus.jpg/449px-1580s_pictorial_map_by_Heinrich_B%C3%BCnting%2C_depicting_Asia_as_Pegasus.jpg 2x" data-file-width="8844" data-file-height="7098" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Asia. <a href="/wiki/Sinus_Persicus" class="mw-redirect" title="Sinus Persicus">Sinus Persicus</a> and the Mare Persicum</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Trade_routes">Trade routes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arabian_Sea&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Trade routes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Periplous_of_the_Erythraean_Sea.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Periplous_of_the_Erythraean_Sea.svg/400px-Periplous_of_the_Erythraean_Sea.svg.png" decoding="async" width="400" height="282" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Periplous_of_the_Erythraean_Sea.svg/600px-Periplous_of_the_Erythraean_Sea.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Periplous_of_the_Erythraean_Sea.svg/800px-Periplous_of_the_Erythraean_Sea.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="903" /></a><figcaption>Names, routes and locations of the <i>Periplus of the Erythraean Sea</i></figcaption></figure> <p>The Arabian Sea has been an important <a href="/wiki/Marine_(ocean)" class="mw-redirect" title="Marine (ocean)">marine</a> <a href="/wiki/Trade_route" title="Trade route">trade route</a> since the era of the <i>coastal sailing vessels</i> from possibly as early as the 3rd millennium BCE, certainly the late 2nd millennium BCE through the later days known as the <a href="/wiki/Age_of_Sail" title="Age of Sail">Age of Sail</a>. By the time of <a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a>, several well-established combined land-sea trade routes depended upon <a href="/wiki/Water_transport" class="mw-redirect" title="Water transport">water transport</a> through the sea around the rough inland <a href="/wiki/Terrain_feature" class="mw-redirect" title="Terrain feature">terrain features</a> to its north. </p><p>These routes usually began in the <a href="/wiki/Far_East" title="Far East">Far East</a> or down river from <a href="/wiki/Madhya_Pradesh" title="Madhya Pradesh">Madhya Pradesh</a>, India with <a href="/wiki/Transshipment" title="Transshipment">transshipment</a> via historic <a href="/wiki/Bharuch" title="Bharuch">Bharuch</a> (Bharakuccha), traversed past the inhospitable coast of modern-day Iran, then split around <a href="/wiki/Hadhramaut" title="Hadhramaut">Hadhramaut</a>, Yemen into two streams north into the Gulf of Aden and thence into the <a href="/wiki/Levant" title="Levant">Levant</a>, or south into <a href="/wiki/Alexandria" title="Alexandria">Alexandria</a> via Red Sea ports such as <a href="/wiki/Axum" title="Axum">Axum</a>. Each major route involved transhipping to <a href="/wiki/Camel_train" title="Camel train">pack animal caravan</a>, travel through desert country and risk of bandits and extortionate tolls by local potentates. </p><p>This southern coastal route past the rough country in the <a href="/wiki/South_Arabia" title="South Arabia">southern Arabian Peninsula</a> was significant, and the <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egyptian</a> <a href="/wiki/Pharaoh" title="Pharaoh">Pharaohs</a> built several shallow canals to service the trade, one more or less along the route of today's <a href="/wiki/Suez_Canal" title="Suez Canal">Suez Canal</a>, and another from the Red Sea to the <a href="/wiki/Nile_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Nile River">Nile River</a>, both shallow works that were swallowed up by huge <a href="/wiki/Sand_storm" class="mw-redirect" title="Sand storm">sand storms</a> in antiquity. Later the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Axum" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Axum">kingdom of Axum</a> arose in <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a> to rule a mercantile empire rooted in the trade with Europe via Alexandria. <sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Major_ports">Major ports</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arabian_Sea&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Major ports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru_Port" title="Jawaharlal Nehru Port">Jawaharlal Nehru Port</a> in <a href="/wiki/Mumbai" title="Mumbai">Mumbai</a> is the largest port in the Arabian Sea, and the largest container port in India. Major Indian ports in the Arabian Sea are <a href="/wiki/Mundra_Port" title="Mundra Port">Mundra Port</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kandla_Port" title="Kandla Port">Kandla Port</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nava_Sheva" class="mw-redirect" title="Nava Sheva">Nava Sheva</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kochi_Port" class="mw-redirect" title="Kochi Port">Kochi Port</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mumbai_Port" title="Mumbai Port">Mumbai Port</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vizhinjam_International_Seaport_Thiruvananthapuram" title="Vizhinjam International Seaport Thiruvananthapuram">Vizhinjam International Seaport Thiruvananthapuram</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mormug%C3%A3o" class="mw-redirect" title="Mormugão">Mormugão</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Container_terminal.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Container_terminal.JPG/260px-Container_terminal.JPG" decoding="async" width="260" height="126" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Container_terminal.JPG/390px-Container_terminal.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Container_terminal.JPG/520px-Container_terminal.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="498" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/International_Container_Transshipment_Terminal,_Kochi" title="International Container Transshipment Terminal, Kochi">International Container Transshipment Terminal</a> at Kochi Port in India</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Karachi" title="Port of Karachi">Port of Karachi</a>, Pakistan's largest and busiest seaport lies on the coast of the sea. It is located between the <a href="/wiki/Karachi" title="Karachi">Karachi</a> towns of <a href="/wiki/Kiamari" class="mw-redirect" title="Kiamari">Kiamari</a> and <a href="/wiki/Saddar" title="Saddar">Saddar</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Gwadar_Port" title="Gwadar Port">Gwadar Port</a> of Pakistan is a warm-water, deep-sea port situated at <a href="/wiki/Gwadar" title="Gwadar">Gwadar</a> in <a href="/wiki/Balochistan,_Pakistan" title="Balochistan, Pakistan">Balochistan</a> at the apex of the Arabian Sea and at the entrance of the Persian Gulf, about 460 km west of Karachi and approximately 75 km (47 mi) east of Pakistan's border with Iran. The port is located on the eastern bay of a natural hammerhead-shaped peninsula jutting out into the Arabian Sea from the coastline. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Port_of_Salalah" title="Port of Salalah">Port of Salalah</a> in Salalah, Oman is also a major port in the area. The International Task Force often uses the port as a base. There is a significant number of warships of all nations coming in and out of the port, which makes it a very safe bubble. The port handled just under 3.5m <a href="/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit" title="Twenty-foot equivalent unit">teu</a> in 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Islands">Islands</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arabian_Sea&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Islands"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Socotra_satview.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Socotra_satview.jpg/220px-Socotra_satview.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Socotra_satview.jpg/330px-Socotra_satview.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Socotra_satview.jpg/440px-Socotra_satview.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="948" /></a><figcaption>Landsat view of Socotra, an island of Yemen</figcaption></figure> <p>There are several islands in the Arabian Sea, with the most important ones being <a href="/wiki/Lakshadweep_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Lakshadweep Islands">Lakshadweep Islands</a> (India), <a href="/wiki/Socotra" title="Socotra">Socotra</a> (Yemen), <a href="/wiki/Masirah" class="mw-redirect" title="Masirah">Masirah</a> (Oman) and <a href="/wiki/Astola_Island" title="Astola Island">Astola Island</a> (Pakistan). </p><p>The Lakshadweep Islands (formerly known as the Laccadive, Minicoy, and Aminidivi Islands) is a group of islands in the Laccadive Sea region of Arabian Sea, 200 to 440 km (120 to 270 mi) off the southwestern coast of India. The archipelago is a <a href="/wiki/Union_territory" title="Union territory">union territory</a> and is governed by the <a href="/wiki/Union_Government_of_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Union Government of India">Union Government of India</a>. The islands form the smallest union territory of India with their total surface area being just 32 km<sup>2</sup> (12 sq mi). Next to these islands are the Maldives islands. These islands are all part of the <a href="/wiki/Chagos-Laccadive_Ridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Chagos-Laccadive Ridge">Lakshadweep-Maldives-Chagos</a> group of islands. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Zalzala_Koh" title="Zalzala Koh">Zalzala Koh</a> was an island which was around for only a few years. After the 2013 earthquake in Pakistan, the mud island was formed. By 2016 the island had completely submerged.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Astola Island, also known as <i>Jezira Haft Talar</i> in <a href="/wiki/Balochi_language" title="Balochi language">Balochi</a>, or 'Island of the Seven Hills', is a small, uninhabited island in the northern tip of the Arabian Sea in Pakistan's territorial waters. </p><p>Socotra, also spelled <i>Soqotra</i>, is the largest island, being part of a small archipelago of four islands. It lies some 240 km (150 mi) east of the <a href="/wiki/Horn_of_Africa" title="Horn of Africa">Horn of Africa</a> and 380 km (240 mi) south of the Arabian Peninsula. </p><p>Masirah and the five <a href="/wiki/Khuriya_Muriya_Islands" title="Khuriya Muriya Islands">Khuriya Muriya Islands</a> are islands off the southeastern coast of Oman. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Major_coastal_cities">Major coastal cities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arabian_Sea&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Major coastal cities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Dhabi" title="Abu Dhabi">Abu Dhabi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aden" title="Aden">Aden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colombo" title="Colombo">Colombo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dubai" title="Dubai">Dubai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwadar" title="Gwadar">Gwadar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karachi" title="Karachi">Karachi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mogadishu" title="Mogadishu">Mogadishu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mumbai" title="Mumbai">Mumbai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muscat" title="Muscat">Muscat</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Oxygen_minimum_zone">Oxygen minimum zone</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arabian_Sea&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Oxygen minimum zone"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Winter_Phytoplankon_Arabian_Sea.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Phytoplankton bloom over the Arabian Sea" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Winter_Phytoplankon_Arabian_Sea.jpg/220px-Winter_Phytoplankon_Arabian_Sea.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="130" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Winter_Phytoplankon_Arabian_Sea.jpg/330px-Winter_Phytoplankon_Arabian_Sea.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Winter_Phytoplankon_Arabian_Sea.jpg/440px-Winter_Phytoplankon_Arabian_Sea.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2491" data-file-height="1470" /></a><figcaption>Phytoplankton bloom over the Arabian Sea in winter (NASA)</figcaption></figure> <p>The Arabian Sea has one of the world's three largest oceanic <a href="/wiki/Oxygen_minimum_zone" title="Oxygen minimum zone">oxygen minimum zones</a> (OMZ), or “dead zones,” along with the eastern tropical North Pacific and the eastern tropical South Pacific. OMZs have very low levels of <a href="/wiki/Oxygen" title="Oxygen">oxygen</a>, sometimes so low as to be undetectable by standard equipment.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Arabian Sea's OMZ has the lowest levels of oxygen in the world, especially in the Gulf of Oman.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Causes of the OMZ may include untreated sewage as well as high temperatures on the Indian subcontinent, which increase winds blowing towards India, bringing up nutrients and reducing oxygen in the Arabian Sea's waters. In winter, phytoplankton suited to low-oxygen conditions turn the OMZ bright green.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Environment_and_wildlife">Environment and wildlife</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arabian_Sea&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Environment and wildlife"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The wildlife of the Arabian sea is diverse, and entirely unique because of the geographic distribution. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_western_part_of_the_Indian_Ocean,_by_Vincenzo_Maria_Coronelli,_1693_from_his_system_of_global_gores_the_Makran_coast.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The western part of the Indian Ocean, by Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, 1693 from his system of global gores the Makran coast"><img alt="The western part of the Indian Ocean, by Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, 1693 from his system of global gores the Makran coast" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/The_western_part_of_the_Indian_Ocean%2C_by_Vincenzo_Maria_Coronelli%2C_1693_from_his_system_of_global_gores_the_Makran_coast.jpg/240px-The_western_part_of_the_Indian_Ocean%2C_by_Vincenzo_Maria_Coronelli%2C_1693_from_his_system_of_global_gores_the_Makran_coast.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/The_western_part_of_the_Indian_Ocean%2C_by_Vincenzo_Maria_Coronelli%2C_1693_from_his_system_of_global_gores_the_Makran_coast.jpg/360px-The_western_part_of_the_Indian_Ocean%2C_by_Vincenzo_Maria_Coronelli%2C_1693_from_his_system_of_global_gores_the_Makran_coast.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/The_western_part_of_the_Indian_Ocean%2C_by_Vincenzo_Maria_Coronelli%2C_1693_from_his_system_of_global_gores_the_Makran_coast.jpg/480px-The_western_part_of_the_Indian_Ocean%2C_by_Vincenzo_Maria_Coronelli%2C_1693_from_his_system_of_global_gores_the_Makran_coast.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The western part of the Indian Ocean, by Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, 1693 from his system of global gores the Makran coast</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Karachi_Mangroves.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Mangrove forests are abundant south of Karachi, Pakistan."><img alt="Mangrove forests are abundant south of Karachi, Pakistan." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Karachi_Mangroves.jpg/240px-Karachi_Mangroves.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Karachi_Mangroves.jpg/360px-Karachi_Mangroves.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Karachi_Mangroves.jpg/480px-Karachi_Mangroves.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3888" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Mangrove forests are abundant south of Karachi, Pakistan.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 92px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 90px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Nakhl-Minoo.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Palm and sunset in Minoo Island, Iran"><img alt="Palm and sunset in Minoo Island, Iran" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Nakhl-Minoo.jpg/135px-Nakhl-Minoo.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Nakhl-Minoo.jpg/202px-Nakhl-Minoo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Nakhl-Minoo.jpg/270px-Nakhl-Minoo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2448" data-file-height="3264" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Arecaceae" title="Arecaceae">Palm</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sunset" title="Sunset">sunset</a> in <a href="/wiki/Minoo_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Minoo Island">Minoo Island</a>, Iran</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 307.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 305.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The-Worlds-Most-Isolated-and-Distinct-Whale-Population-Humpback-Whales-of-the-Arabian-Sea-pone.0114162.s001.tif" class="mw-file-description" title="Critically endangered"><img alt="Critically endangered" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/The-Worlds-Most-Isolated-and-Distinct-Whale-Population-Humpback-Whales-of-the-Arabian-Sea-pone.0114162.s001.tif/lossy-page1-458px-The-Worlds-Most-Isolated-and-Distinct-Whale-Population-Humpback-Whales-of-the-Arabian-Sea-pone.0114162.s001.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="306" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/The-Worlds-Most-Isolated-and-Distinct-Whale-Population-Humpback-Whales-of-the-Arabian-Sea-pone.0114162.s001.tif/lossy-page1-687px-The-Worlds-Most-Isolated-and-Distinct-Whale-Population-Humpback-Whales-of-the-Arabian-Sea-pone.0114162.s001.tif.jpg 1.5x, 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offspring in shallow waters</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 213.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Makran_sea_.makoran_coast_in_Iran.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="coast in Iran"><img alt="coast in Iran" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Makran_sea_.makoran_coast_in_Iran.jpg/320px-Makran_sea_.makoran_coast_in_Iran.jpg" decoding="async" width="214" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Makran_sea_.makoran_coast_in_Iran.jpg/480px-Makran_sea_.makoran_coast_in_Iran.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Makran_sea_.makoran_coast_in_Iran.jpg/640px-Makran_sea_.makoran_coast_in_Iran.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="720" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">coast in Iran</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 213.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Makoran_sea_.Makoran_coast_in_Iran.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="coast in Iran"><img alt="coast in Iran" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Makoran_sea_.Makoran_coast_in_Iran.jpg/320px-Makoran_sea_.Makoran_coast_in_Iran.jpg" decoding="async" width="214" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Makoran_sea_.Makoran_coast_in_Iran.jpg/480px-Makoran_sea_.Makoran_coast_in_Iran.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Makoran_sea_.Makoran_coast_in_Iran.jpg/640px-Makoran_sea_.Makoran_coast_in_Iran.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="720" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">coast in Iran</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 195.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 193.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Red_Coast_of_Makoran_sea_Iran.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="coast in Iran"><img alt="coast in Iran" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_Coast_of_Makoran_sea_Iran.jpg/290px-Red_Coast_of_Makoran_sea_Iran.jpg" decoding="async" width="194" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_Coast_of_Makoran_sea_Iran.jpg/434px-Red_Coast_of_Makoran_sea_Iran.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_Coast_of_Makoran_sea_Iran.jpg/579px-Red_Coast_of_Makoran_sea_Iran.jpg 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="448" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">coast in Iran</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 231.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 229.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Arabian_or_Makoran_sea_.Makoran_red_coast_in_Iran.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="coast in Iran"><img alt="coast in Iran" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Arabian_or_Makoran_sea_.Makoran_red_coast_in_Iran.jpg/344px-Arabian_or_Makoran_sea_.Makoran_red_coast_in_Iran.jpg" decoding="async" width="230" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Arabian_or_Makoran_sea_.Makoran_red_coast_in_Iran.jpg/516px-Arabian_or_Makoran_sea_.Makoran_red_coast_in_Iran.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Arabian_or_Makoran_sea_.Makoran_red_coast_in_Iran.jpg/687px-Arabian_or_Makoran_sea_.Makoran_red_coast_in_Iran.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1080" data-file-height="566" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">coast in Iran</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Arabian_Sea_warming">Arabian Sea warming</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arabian_Sea&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Arabian Sea warming"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Recent studies<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Tropical_Meteorology" title="Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology">Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology</a> confirmed that the Arabian Sea is warming monotonously; it possibly is due to global warming. The intensification and northward shift of the summer monsoon low-level jet over the Arabian Sea from 1979 to 2015, led to increased upper ocean heat content due to enhanced downwelling and reduced southward heat transport.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Native_names">Native names</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arabian_Sea&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Native names"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Regional <a href="/wiki/Endonym" class="mw-redirect" title="Endonym">endonyms</a> for the Arabian sea in languages of the coastal regions surrounding it. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Language </th> <th>Name </th> <th>Romanized </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a> </td> <td>بَحرُ ٱلْعَرَبْ </td> <td><i>baḥr al-ʿarab</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Maldivian_language" title="Maldivian language">Divehi</a> </td> <td>ޢަރަބި ކަނޑު </td> <td><i>arabi kanḍu</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Gujarati_language" title="Gujarati language">Gujarati</a> </td> <td>અરબી સમુદ્ર </td> <td><i>arabī samudra</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hindi" title="Hindi">Hindi</a> </td> <td>अरब सागर </td> <td><i>arab sāgar</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kannada" title="Kannada">Kannada</a> </td> <td>ಅರಬ್ಬೀ ಸಮುದ್ರ </td> <td><i>arabbī samudra</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Konkani_language" title="Konkani language">Konkani</a> </td> <td>अरबी दर्या </td> <td><i>arabī daryā</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Malayalam" title="Malayalam">Malayalam</a> </td> <td>അറബിക്കടൽ </td> <td><i>aṟabikkaḍal</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Marathi_language" title="Marathi language">Marathi</a> </td> <td>अरबी समुद्र </td> 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title="Myrtoan Sea">Myrtoan Sea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Sea" title="North Sea">North Sea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwegian_Sea" title="Norwegian Sea">Norwegian Sea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sargasso_Sea" title="Sargasso Sea">Sargasso Sea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sea_of_%C3%85land" title="Sea of Åland">Sea of Åland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sea_of_Azov" title="Sea of Azov">Sea of Azov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sea_of_Crete" title="Sea of Crete">Sea of Crete</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sea_of_the_Hebrides" title="Sea of the Hebrides">Sea of the Hebrides</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sea_of_Marmara" title="Sea of Marmara">Sea of Marmara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thracian_Sea" title="Thracian Sea">Thracian Sea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tyrrhenian_Sea" title="Tyrrhenian Sea">Tyrrhenian Sea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wadden_Sea" title="Wadden Sea">Wadden Sea</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a 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