Arabi Island (Arabic: جزيرة العربية) is one of the Saudi Arabian islands near Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf. The island measures ten hectares in area.
Approximate location of Arabi Island
Along with Farsi, Arabi was once the subject of a territorial dispute between Iran and Saudi Arabia, but the two countries came to an agreement in the 1960s, in which Iran ceded sovereignty of Arabi to Saudi Arabia.[1]
References
edit- ^ Jayewardene, Hiran Wasantha (1990). The Regime of Islands in International Law. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 423. ISBN 0792301307.
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27°46′43″N 50°10′34″E / 27.77861°N 50.17611°E
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