![]() Trade in the Gulf goes back some 5,000 years. Today it is bordered by Iran on the north, northeast, and east, on the southeast and south by Oman and the United Arab Emirates, on the southwest and west by Qatar, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia, and on the northwest by Kuwait and Iraq. ![]() Most of its waters are less than 100 meters deep. The total length of this waterway is nearly 1,000 kilometers, and its total area is about 250,000 square kilometers. For most of history cargoes were transferred to smaller craft at Bahrain, or even as far away as Hormuz, for onward passage to Basra. At its top end, at Kuwait or Basra, navigation is often difficult because of dangerous currents and silting from the Tigris-Euphrates river system. ![]() The entrance from the Arabian Sea is via the Straits of Hormuz, which at their narrowest are only about 55 kilometers wide. The Persian Gulf, known to Arabs as the Arabian Gulf, is a crescent-shaped stretch of water forming an extension of the Indian Ocean. ![]()
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