Arabian Sea

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The Arabian Sea (anc. Mare Erythraeum) is the part of the Indian Ocean bounded East by India, North by Baluchistan and part of the southern Persian littoral, West by Arabian Peninsula, and South, approximately, by a line between Cape Guardafui, the north-east point of Somaliland, and Cape Comorin in India. It was known as the Sindhu Sagar to Indians in the Vedic period of their history.

It has two important branches--at the south-west the Gulf of Aden, connecting with the Red Sea through the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb; and at the north-west the Gulf of Oman, connecting with the Persian Gulf. Besides these larger ramifications, there are the Gulfs of Cambay and Kach on the Indian coast. An interest and importance belong to this sea as forming part of the chief highway between Europe and India. Its islands are few, the chief being Sokotra, off the African, and the Laccadives, off the Indian coast.

The maximum width of the Arabian Sea is approximately 2,400 km, and its maximum depth is 4,652 metres, in the Arabian Basin approximately at the same latitude as the southernmost tip of India. The Indus River, also known as the Sindhu river, is the only considerable river flowing directly into this sea.

In the northwest it narrows to form the Gulf of Oman which in turn connects to the Persian Gulf at the Strait of Hormuz.

The countries with coastlines on the Arabian Sea are India, Iran, Oman, Pakistan, Yemen, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Somalia and the Maldives.

Cities on the coast include Mumbai (Bombay), (India) and Karachi, (Pakistan).

Famous beaches on the coast include