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Bahrain - Maps of the World

Bahrain (from the Arabic word for "two seas" — itself an inaccurate folk etymology for the much older, non-Semitic term, Bahran) comprises an archipelago of thirty-three islands situated midway in the Arabian close to the shore of the Arabian Peninsula. The islands are about twenty-four kilometers from the east coast of Saudi Arabia and twenty-eight kilometers from Qatar. The total area of the islands is about 691 square kilometers, or about four times the size of the District of Columbia. The largest island, accounting for 83% of the area, is Bahrain (aka Al Bahrayn), which has an extent of 572 square kilometers. From north to south, Bahrain is forty-eight kilometers long; at its widest point in the north, it is sixteen kilometers from east to west.