The Persian Gulf is a mediterranean sea in West Asia, an extension of the Arabian Sea and the larger Indian Ocean lying between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. It connects to the Gulf of Oman and the open ocean through the Strait of Hormuz, and the Shatt al-Arab river delta forms its north-west shoreline. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The combined Euphrates-Tigris (Shatt al-Arab) empties into the Persian Gulf.
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The Tigris reaches the Persian Gulf after merging with the Euphrates.
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Bordered By Water
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Borders
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Basin membership is the Musandam exclave, per the source's own parenthetical.
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Found There
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Source Wikipedia: SymbiodiniumDistribution: Persian Gulftier 2Quote, Distribution: Persian Gulf
Symbiodinium thermophilum was recently found to make up the bulk of the algal population inside the corals of the Persian Gulf.
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an extension of the Arabian Sea and the larger Indian Ocean located between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran (Persia)
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Its length is 989 kilometres (615 miles), with Iran covering most of the northern coast and Saudi Arabia most of the southern coast.
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251,000 km2 (97,000 sq mi)
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90 m (300 ft)
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al-Khalij al-Arabiyy
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26N 52E
Borders: Oman, Infobox, Basin countries field
Oman (exclave of Musandam)
Shaped By: Plate Tectonics, Lead
The Persian Gulf is in the Persian Gulf Basin, which is of Cenozoic origin and related to the subduction of the Arabian plate under the Zagros Mountains.
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Arabian Peninsula (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationBordered By Water: The Arabian Peninsula, LeadQuote, Bordered By Water: The Arabian Peninsula, Lead
Geographically, the Arabian Peninsula is bounded by Mesopotamia and the Levant to the north and northwest and surrounded by the Indian Ocean: the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Gulf of Oman to the east and northeast; the Arabian Sea to the southeast; and the Gulf of Aden to the south, the Strait of Mandeb to the southwest, and the Red Sea to the west.
Euphrates (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Euphrates River, Lead sectionQuote, Associated With: Euphrates River, Lead section
in the Shatt al-Arab in Iraq, which empties into the Persian Gulf.
Tigris (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Tigris River, Lead sectionQuote, Associated With: Tigris River, Lead section
before merging with the Euphrates and reaching to the Persian Gulf.
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