The Persian Gulf is a semi-enclosed sea between Iran and the Arabian peninsula which, through the Strait of Hormoz, connects to the sea of Oman and from there to the Indian Ocean. This large expanse of water is located to the south and southwest of Iran, near the regions of Khuzestan, Bushehr and to a part of the region Hormozgan and borders on seven countries, i United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and Kuwait with a different extension of the coasts.
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- The water from the Persian Gulf has a higher salinity, and therefore exits from the bottom of the Strait, while ocean water with less salinity flows in through the top.
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- The Persian Gulf covers a region of around 238,000 square kilometers. This gulf measures 900 km in length and 250 km in width.
- 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.
- The Persian Gulf, called the Arabian Gulf by Arabs, is mostly shallow and has many islands, of which Bahrain is the largest.
- The United States played a limited part until Iraq invaded Iran in 1980 and the ensuing war threatened the safe passage of oil tankers out of the Persian Gulf.
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- The 1991 Gulf War is also named after the Persian Gulf. Due to oil spills and industrialization of the Persian Gulf much of its ecology has been damaged.
- The Persian Gulf was a battlefield of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War, in which each side attacked the other's oil tankers.
