• Location: Middle East, Archipelago in the Persian Gulf, east of Saudi Arabia
• Geographic coordinates: 26 00 N, 50 33 E
• Map references: Middle East
• Area:
  
  Total: 620 sq km
  Land: 620 sq km
  Water: 0 sq km
• Area - comparative: 3.5 times the size of Washington, DC
• Land boundaries: 0 km
• Coastline: 161 km
• Maritime claims:
  
  Contiguous zone: 24 nm
  Continental shelf: extending to boundaries to be determined
  Territorial sea: 12 nm
• Climate: arid; mild, pleasant winters; very hot, humid summers
• Terrain: mostly low desert plain rising gently to low central escarpment
• Elevation extremes:
  
  Lowest point: Persian Gulf 0 m
  Highest point: Jabal ad Dukhan 122 m
• Natural resources: oil, associated and nonassociated natural gas, fish