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{{Infobox body of water
| name = Arabian Sea
| native_name =Darya
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| type = [[Sea]]
| part_of = [[Indian Ocean]]
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| basin_countries = {{flag|India}}, {{flag|Iran}}, {{flag|Maldives}}, {{flag|Oman}}, {{flag|Pakistan}}, {{flag|Yemen}}, {{flag|Seychelles}}
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| area = {{convert|3862000|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}} (3,600,000 to 4,600,000 km2 in various sources)
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[[File:Locatie Arabische Zee.PNG|thumb|250px|Map of the Arabian Sea.]]
[[File:Arabian Sea people.jpg|thumb|Pakistani people bathing in the Arabian Sea]]

The '''Arabian Sea''' is the northwest part of the [[Indian ocean]]. To its west are the [[Guardafui Channel]], [[Somali Sea]] and Arabian peninsula. To its east is the Indian peninsula. It covers around {{convert|4600000|km|mi}}. The Arabian Sea one of the warmest [[sea]]s.

==Limits==
The [[International Hydrographic Organization]] defines the limits of the Arabian Sea as follows:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iho.int/iho_pubs/standard/S-23/S-23_Ed3_1953_EN.pdf |title=Limits of Oceans and Seas, 3rd edition |year=1953 |publisher=International Hydrographic Organization |access-date=7 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171207191813/https://www.iho.int/iho_pubs/standard/S-23/S-23_Ed3_1953_EN.pdf |archive-date=7 December 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* On the west: the eastern limit of the Gulf of Aden.
* On the north: a line joining [[Ras al Hadd|Ràs al Hadd]], east point of the [[Arabian Peninsula]] (22°32'N) and [[Jiwani|Ràs Jiyùni]] (61°43'E) on the coast of Pakistan.
* On the south: a line running from the southern extremity of [[Addu Atoll]] in the Maldives, to the eastern extremity of [[Ras Hafun|Ràs Hafun]] (the easternmost point of [[Africa]], 10°26'N).
* On the east: the western limit of the Laccadive Sea a line running from [[Sadashivgad]] on the west coast of India ({{coord|14|48|N|74|07|E}}) to [[Cora Divh]] ({{coord|13|42|N|72|10|E}}) and thence down the west side of the [[Lakshadweep|Laccadive]] and Maldive archipelagos to the most southerly point of [[Addu Atoll]] in the Maldives.

==Border and Basin countries==
The countries into which the Arabian Sea drains include:<ref name="CIAFactBook">{{cite web |title=Iran - The World Factbook |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/iran/ |website=cia.gov |publisher=Central Intelligence Agency |accessdate=5 August 2021 |date=21 July 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Wildlife">{{cite web |title=Introduction to Pakistan: Section 5: Coastline |url=http://www.wildlifeofpakistan.com/IntroductiontoPakistan/coastlineofPakistan.htm |website=wildlifeofpakistan.com |accessdate=5 August 2021 |year=2004 |url-status=live}}</ref>
# {{IND}} - 2,500 Km Coastline
# {{PAK}} - 1,050 Km Coastline
# {{IRN}}
# {{MDV}}
# {{OMA}}
# {{YEM}}
# {{SYC}}

==Other names==
Other names for the sea include:
# Indian Sea<ref name="Kamat">{{cite web|url=http://www.kamat.com/indica/geography/arabian_sea.htm|title=Kamat's Potpourri: The Arabian Sea|work=kamat.com}}</ref>
# Sindhu Sagar<ref name="Kamat" />
# Fars Darya
# Erythraean Sea<ref name="Periplus">{{cite web|url=http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/periplus/periplus.html|title=The Voyage around the Erythraean Seain para No 34-35 |work=washington.edu}}</ref>
# Sindh Sea <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://japan.mfa.gov.ir/en/newsview/536034|title = A book and atlas}}</ref>
# Green Sea<ref name="Periplus" />
# Mare di Persia
# Persian Sea<ref name="Periplus" />

The Arabian Sea, historically and geographically, has been referred to by different names by Turks, Persians, Arabs, and scholars of [[Geography and cartography in medieval Islam]], European geographers and travelers, including the Ministry of Iran.<ref name="MFA">{{cite web|url=https://japan.mfa.gov.ir/en/newsview/536033|title=Ministry of MoFA Iran: Introducing a Book and Atlas|work=mfa.gov.ir}}</ref>

In Indian folklore, it is referred to as Darya, Sindhu Sagar, and Arab Samudra.<ref name="Kamat" /><ref name="Periplus" /><ref name="Scribbd">{{cite web |url=http://www.scribd.com/doc/8583367/The-Periplus-of-the-Erythraean-Sea |title=List of some early maps which had mentioned the Perian Gulf |access-date=3 April 2012 |archive-date=2 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202223335/http://www.scribd.com/doc/8583367/The-Periplus-of-the-Erythraean-Sea |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Arab sailors and nomads used to call this sea by different names, including the green sea, Bahre Fars, the ocean sea, the Hindu sea, the Makran Sea, the sea of Oman, among them the [[Zakariya al-Qazwini]], [[Al-Masudi]] , [[Ibn Hawqal]] and ([[Hafiz-i Abru]]) They wrote: “The green sea and Indian sea and Persian sea are all one sea and in this sea there are strange creatures.<ref name="MFA" /> [[Ibn Khordadbeh]], [[Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi]], [[Muhammad al-Idrisi]], [[Istakhri]], [[Mahmud al-Kashgari]], [[Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad]], and [[Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi]] had mentioned the sea as Persian sea and Bahr e Fars.
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://parssea.org/?p=9374 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112214715/http://parssea.org/?p=9374 |archivedate=2020-11-12 |title= Documents on the Persian Gulf's name|last1=Ajam|first1=Muḥammad|year=2010 |publisher= [[Documents on the Persian Gulf's name]] (PGSC)|access-date=16 June 2021 }}</ref>

Some medieval maps, including the map by Vincenzo Maria, Coronelli, 1693 had mentioned the Persian sea and also Macran. Cornelius Le Brun's Year 1718 Map. On this map, the name of the Oman Sea is recorded as "Gulf of Hormuz". Map of Iran in the 16th century by Abraham Ortelius in which the name of the Persian Sea and the Indian Sea appear.<ref>http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy11pdf02/2010344035.pdf</ref> Iran, had in the past, been called persian sea, but now like [[Turkey]], it is called Oman sea together with the gulf of Oman [[Encyclopædia Iranica]] also call it Oman sea.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Foundation |first1=Encyclopaedia Iranica |title=Welcome to Encyclopaedia Iranica: Arabian Sea |url=https://iranicaonline.org/articles/arabian-sea |website=iranicaonline.org}}</ref><ref name="Oman_Iranica">{{cite web |last1=Foundation |first1=Encyclopaedia Iranica |title=Welcome to Encyclopaedia Iranica: Sea of Oman |url=https://iranicaonline.org/articles/oman-sea-of |website=iranicaonline.org}}</ref>

==Maps with historical names==
Many atlases had published old maps of Asia and Indian ocean such as Atlas of The Arabian Peninsula in Old European Maps.Paris, 424pp. contains 253 maps.10 maps have used persian Sea (for the body of water which is now called Arabian sea)the maps in pages: -141-226-323-322-331-345-347-363-355•<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Peninsula-European-Peninsule-europeenes-Anciennes/dp/B007T83D00 The Arabian Peninsula In Old European Maps La Peninsule Arabique dans les cartes europeenes Anciennes: Khaled Al Ankary: Amazon.com: Books]</ref> such as the hours shape map of Bunting H.S.Q34/24CM Hanover,1620.<ref name="MFA" /><ref>[https://kids.kiddle.co/File:Documents_on_the_Persian_Gulf%27s_name.gif File:Documents on the Persian Gulf's name]</ref>
<gallery mode="packed">
File:A horizontal Malabar Coast miniature, a reprint by Petrus Bertius, 1630.jpg|A horizontal Malabar Coast miniature, a reprint by Petrus Bertius, 1630
File:Basra-ps64.JPG|Persian Sea.
File:Map of persia.jpg|thumb|Macran
File:Soulier, E.; Andriveau-Goujon, J. Anciens Empires Jusqua Alexandre. 1838.jpg|Soulier, E.; Andriveau-Goujon, MER ERYTHREE 1838.
File:1658 Jansson Map of the Indian Ocean (Erythrean Sea) in Antiquity - Geographicus - ErythraeanSea-jansson-1658.jpg|1658 Jansson Map of the Indian Ocean (Erythrean Sea)
File:The western part of the Indian Ocean, by Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, 1693, from his system of global gores the south.jpg|The western part of the Indian Ocean, by Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, 1693, from his system of global gores the south
File:The western part of the Indian Ocean, by Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, 1693 from his system of global gores the Makran coast.jpg|The western part of the Indian Ocean, by Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, 1693 from his system of global gores the Makran coast
File:Periplous of the Erythraean Sea.svg|thumb|Periplous of the Erythraean Sea
</gallery>

===Gallery===
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<gallery>
File:Dugong.jpg|[[Dugong]] mother and her offspring in shallow waters.
File:The-Worlds-Most-Isolated-and-Distinct-Whale-Population-Humpback-Whales-of-the-Arabian-Sea-pone.0114162.s001.tif|Critically endangered Arabian [[humpback whale]]s (being the most isolated, and the only resident population in the world) off [[Dhofar Governorate|Dhofar]], Oman.
File:Nakhl-Minoo.jpg|[[Arecaceae|Palm]] and [[sunset]] in [[Minoo Island]]Iran.
File:Makran sea .makoran coast in Iran.jpg|thumb|Makran coast.Chabahar Port
File:Makoran sea .Makoran coast in Iran.jpg|thumb|Makran sea. Chabahar
File:Red Coast of Makoran sea Iran.jpg|thumb|Makran coast.
File:Arabian or Makoran sea .Makoran red coast in Iran.jpg|thumb|Iran Makran coast
</gallery>
</center>

==See also==
* [[Indian Ocean]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{EB1911 |wstitle=Arabian Sea}}
* http://lib.eshia.ir/23019/1/577

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
* {{cite web| url = http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/ecoregions/arabian_sea.cfm | title = Arabian Sea (World Wildlife Fund) |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110523064712/http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/ecoregions/arabian_sea.cfm |archivedate = 2011-05-23 }}

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