Canon:Zakharan seas

The continent of Zakhara is renowned for its burning deserts and lush jungles, but the seas surrounding its varied coastlines allow much travel and trade hindered by its harsh interior.

Surrounding seas
The Land of Fate is surrounded by three major seas:
 * The Great Sea, or Bahr al-Kibar, stretches to the north and west, separating Zakhara and Faerûn.
 * To the east daring sailors cross the Sea of Foreigners, or Bahr al-Ajami, to the distant lands of Kara-Tur.
 * To the south Zakhara is bounded by the so-called Crowded Sea, or Bahr al-Izdiham, characterized by a large number of inhabited as well as unkown islands and crossed by many trading ships.

Interior seas
Together, these interior bodies of water separate almost completely the west of Zakhara from its central and eastern portion, with only relatively narrow strip of land between Qudra and Liham connecting the regions of the High Desert and the Haunted Lands.
 * Between the cities of Jumlat and I'tiraf, the Crowded Sea narrows to form the Golden Gulf that separates the League of the Pantheon to the east from its ideological counterpart, the Pearl Cities, to the west.
 * To the north, the gulf narrows again into long and narrow Suq Bay. Zakhara's central Cities of the Heart stretch along its shores, from Golden Huzuz, "the heart of the heart", in the south, to industrious Hiyal in the north . Its narrowest part at the height of Wasat in the middle separates Suq Bay into a Southern and a Northern quarter.
 * From Hiyal to the west, the straits of Al-Tariq connect Suq Bay to the inland Sea of Caravans.