Oraea

Oraea{{cite web |title=Ormara Beach Balochistan |url=https://www.getout.pk/pakistan/ormara-beach/ |website=getout.pk |access-date=7 May 2025 |date=26 January 2019}}{{cite web |title=Ancient settlements of Makran and Lower Indus |url=https://www.wisdomlib.org/history/essay/roman-egypt-to-peninsular-india/d/doc1461297.html |website=wisdomlib.org |access-date=7 May 2025 |language=en |date=28 October 2024}} was the name of a sea port near the modern-day city of Ormara, Balochistan province of Pakistan, important in the Hellenistic era in Indian Ocean trade. It is mentioned briefly in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea:

:"Beyond the Ommanitic region there is a country also of the Parsidae, of another Kingdom, and the bay of Gedrosia [Casson: “Gulf of Terabdoi”], from the middle of which a cape juts out into the bay. Here there is a river affording an entrance for ships, with a little market-town at the mouth, called Oraea and back from the place an in-land city, distant a seven days' journey from the sea, in which also is the King's court; it is called ... (probably Rhambacia) [Casson notes the name was inadvertently admitted in the manuscript]. This country yields much wheat, wine, rice and dates; but along the coast there is nothing but bdellium." Periplus, Chap. 38