The Arabs native soil stretches some 5,000 miles, almost twice the distance between New York and San Francisco from the Atlantic coast of northern Africa in the west to the Arabian Sea in the east and from the Mediterranean Sea in the north to Central Africa in the south and it covers an region of 5.25 million square miles thus by evaluation, the United States comprises 3.6 million square miles. With 72% of its terrain in Africa and 28% in Asia, the Arab world overlaps two continents; a place that has made it one of the world’s most tactical regions and long coastlines give it access to critical waterways, the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. While the region is subjugated by dry climatic setting, the existence of mountain ranges allows seasonal rainfall and given the prevalence of arid conditions, dependable sources of water are enormously important, be they springs from which oases are formed, or rivers.