Arabia (disambiguation)

Arabia is a name for the Arabian Peninsula, a geographic region in Asia. Arabia may also refer to:

Geography

  • Saudi Arabia, the largest country in the Arabian Peninsula
  • Arabian Plate, a minor tectonic plate
  • Arabia Deserta, the desert interior of the Arabian Peninsula in modern-day Saudi Arabia
  • Arabia Felix, modern-day Yemen and southwestern Saudi Arabia
  • Arabia Petraea, a Roman province
  • Arabia, Finland, a neighbourhood of Helsinki
  • Arabia, Indiana, a community in the United States
  • Arabia, Nebraska, a community in the United States
  • Arabia (satrapy), a satrapy (province) of the Achaemenid Empire and later of the Sassanid Empire, by the name of Arabistan

People

Language

  • A romanized spelling of `Arabīya = the Arabic language

Astronomy

  • 1157 Arabia, an asteroid
  • Arabia Terra, a large upland region of Mars' northern hemisphere
  • Arabia quadrangle, one of a series of 30 quadrangle maps of Mars used by the United States Geological Survey Astrogeology Research Program

Ships

  • RMS Arabia, a passenger liner sunk in World War I
  • Arabia (steamboat), sunk in the Missouri River in 1856 and excavated from 1988–1989
  • Arabia (barque), foundered in Lake Huron in 1884
  • USS Arabia (ID-3434), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission during 1918

Other

  • Arabia (company), a Finnish ceramics manufacturer
  • Arabia (film), an Indian film

See also


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