The Arabian Peninsula consists of multiple countries.
 The peninsula plays a critical geopolitical role in the Arab world and globally due to its vast reserves of oil and natural gas
==== Cities ====The eleven most populous cities on the Arabian Peninsula are:=== Landscape ===Geologically, this region is perhaps more appropriately called the Arabian subcontinent because it lies on a tectonic plate of its own, the Arabian Plate, which has been moving incrementally away from the rest of Africa (forming the Red Sea) and north, toward Asia, into the Eurasian Plate (forming the Zagros Mountains)

