"كتيّب الجزيرة العربية المُعد تحت إشراف القسم التاريخي لوزارة الخارجية – رقم ٩٠". [‎١] (١٤٨/١٦)

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Arabia]
I. GEOGRAPHY PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL
(1) Position and Frontiers
Arabia proper is a peninsula of south-western
Asia, bounded on the west by the Red Sea, on the south
by the Indian Ooean, and on the east by the Gulf of
Oman and the Persian Gulf. The northern boundary
embraces the great Nefud Desert, lying between lati
tudes about 28° and 30° north, but it is an open question
whether or not there should also be included the Hamad
or Syrian Desert, north of the Nefud. Physically and
ethnographically there is little distinction to be drawn
between them, but the social and political relations of
Arabia are in many respects peculiar. The peninsula
is in fact so much cut off from the rest of Asia by the
Nefud that it is practically of an insular character.
For the present purpose, therefore, Arabia is to be
understood as limited on the north by a line drawn
from the head of the Gulf of Akaba to the mouth of the
Shatt el-Arab, and therefore as lying between 12° 30'
and 30° north latitude and 34° 30' and 60° east
longitude. It occupies an area of approximately
1,000,000 square miles, more than half of which lies
within the tropics.
In the south is the settlement of Aden on the
coast of Yemen, a British possession comprising the
following divisions: (1) the peninsula and isthmus,
or Aden proper, (2) Sheikh Othman and the surround
ing district, (3) Little Aden peninsula, (4) the island
of Perim. The total area of the settlement is about 80
square miles, with a population of over 46.000. The
Aden Protectorate has an area of about 9,000 square
miles, and a population of over 100,000.
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