Description
Includes a large (38” x 34”) foldout terrain map of the 1.2 million square mile Arabian Peninsula from 1982, when the region had a slightly different political configuration (Yemen was divided into two separate countries—Yemen Arab Republic and the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen). The map features the physical terrain of the eight countries that made up the peninsula at that time, which (besides the two Yemeni republics) includes Saudi Arabia, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain, as well as more detailed maps of the region’s major urban centers, including Mecca, Jiddah, Riyadh, San’a, Aden, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Dammam and Kuwait City (from Bartholomew & Son, Ltd.); an official road map of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, from the Ministry of Communications, in commemoration of Expo ’86, with pictures and boosterish copy promoting the Kingdom’s many transportation infrastructure projects from the 1980’s, including roads, bridges and airports, as well as information on “the railroad”, marine transport and public transportation, as well as mail, telephone and telegraph services (from 1986); and a colorful map of three Saudi cities in the Eastern Region, near the island nation of Bahrain (connected to Saudi Arabia by causeway): Dammam, Khobar and Dhahran (the administrative center of Saudi Arabia’s vast oil industry) (from Farsi Maps, circa 1990)
