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The Middle East and North Africa (MENA), also referred to as West Asia and North Africa (WANA) [1] or South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA), [2] [3] is a geographic region which comprises the Middle East (also called West Asia) and North Africa together.
The boundary between Asia and Europe is unusual among continental boundaries because of its largely mountain-and-river-based characteristics north and east of the Black Sea. Asia and Europe are considered separate continents for historical reasons; the division between the two goes back to the early Greek geographers.
Western Asia [j] 289,733,123: 3.7% 1.98% 18 3 0 0 Northern Africa [k] 255,737,736: 3.2% 1.70% 6 1 1 0 Western Europe [l] 195,381,649: 2.5% 0.25% 9 0 0 0 Middle Africa [m] 190,267,973: 2.4% 2.79% 9 0 0 0 Central America [n] 177,661,929: 2.2% 1.40% 8 0 0 0 Southern Europe: 152,130,606: 1.9% 0.24% 15 1 1 0 Northern Europe [o] 106,197,357: 1.3% 0. ...
Map of the Middle East between North Africa, Southern Europe, Central Asia, and Southern Asia Middle East map of Köppen climate classification. The Middle East (term originally coined in English language) [note 1] is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
APMA: Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa; APSG: Asia Pacific and Singapore; Arab League: a regional organization of Arab countries; Arab Maghreb Union: a regional organisation comprising five Arab and North African states; Arraiolos Group is an informal meeting of presidents of parliamentary and semi-presidential European Union member states.
Image:BlankMap-Europe.png – Europe as far east as western Russia, western Turkey, and Cyprus. Some of the world's smallest states (e.g., Monaco , Vatican City ) appear as single pixels. Includes the former eastern Soviet republics. 450 x 422 pixels, 9 812 bytes.
The North Frigid Zone, between the North Pole at 90° N and the Arctic Circle at 66°33′50.3″ N, covers 4.12% of Earth's surface. The North Temperate Zone, between the Arctic Circle at 66°33′50.3″ N and the Tropic of Cancer at 23°26′09.7″ N, covers 25.99% of Earth's surface.
This is a list of countries with territory that straddles more than one continent, known as transcontinental states or intercontinental states. [1]Contiguous transcontinental countries are states that have one continuous or immediately-adjacent piece of territory that spans a continental boundary, most commonly the line that separates Asia and Europe.