Rub al Khali. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

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The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Rub al Khali

SYLLABICATION:	Rub al Kha·li
PRONUNCIATION:	rb l käl, äl äl
VARIANTS:	Sometimes called “the Empty Quarter.”
	A desert region in the southeast interior of the Arabian Peninsula. Virtually without water and uninhabited, it was first visited by an English explorer in 1932 but has not yet been completely explored.


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