Hydrology and Hydrography: A Look at the Natural Geography of the Persian Gulf - Part II

Choukhachizadeh Moghaddam, Mohammad Bagher

Hydrology and Hydrography: A Look at the Natural Geography of the Persian Gulf - Part II

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Mohammad Bagher Choukhachizadeh Moghaddam

Member of Faculty, Imam Hosein University

Abstract

The Persian Gulf is a sea of warm water with an area of 240,000 square kilometers and a volume of 6,000 cubic meter, which is connected to the Oman Sea by the Strait of Hormuz. The length of the Iranian Persian Gulf shores from Bandar Abbas to the mouth of Shat-e-Arab is 1259 km and its length from the mouth of Arvand River in the northwest to the Strait of Hormuz in the southeast is at about 805 km. Its length from Shatt al-Arab to the shores of Abu Dhabi is 830 km and the length of the Arabian coast is about 1740 km. The average width of the Persian Gulf is 210 kilometers, with a minimum width of 185 kilometers and a maximum of 355 kilometers.