The Gulf of Oman (Arabic: خليج عمان; transliterated: khalīj ʿumān) is a gulf that connects the Arabian Sea with the Strait of Hormuz which then runs to the Persian Gulf; it is generally included as a branch of the Persian Gulf, not as an arm of the Arabian Sea. On the north coast is Pakistan and Iran (Persia) On the south coast are Oman in the east and United Arab Emirates for a short distance in the west. See references:
- "The Book of Duarte Barbosa" by Duarte Barbosa, Mansel Longworth Dames. 1989. p.79. ISBN 8120604512
- "The Natural History of Pliny". by Pliny, Henry Thomas Riley, John Bostock. 1855. p.117
- "The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf" by Samuel Barrett Miles - 1966. p.148
- "The Life & Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner". by Daniel Defoe. 1895. p.279
- "The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind". by Herbert George Well. 1920. p.379.
- "The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge" by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck. 1910. p.242
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