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West Asia (also called Western Asia or Southwest Asia) is the westernmost region of Asia. As defined by most academics, UN bodies and other institutions, the subregion consists of Anatolia , the Arabian Peninsula , Iran , Mesopotamia , the Armenian highlands , the Levant , the island of Cyprus , the Sinai Peninsula and the South Caucasus .
These varying definitions are not generally reflected in the map of Asia as a whole; for example, Egypt is typically included in the Middle East, but not in Asia, even though the bulk of the Middle East is in Asia. The demarcation between Asia and Africa is the Suez Canal, the Gulf of Suez, the Red Sea, and the Bab-el-Mandeb.
In medieval T and O maps, Asia makes for half the world's landmass, with Africa and Europe accounting for a quarter each. With the High Middle Ages, Southwest and Central Asia receive better resolution in Muslim geography, and the 11th century map by Mahmud al-Kashgari is the first world map drawn from a Central Asian point of view.
For convenience, all Geography of Asia by country categories should be included in this category. This includes all the geography categories that can also be found in the subcategories. This includes all the geography categories that can also be found in the subcategories.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Maps of Asia (7 C, 3 P) ... Asia geography stubs (55 C, 48 P) Pages in category "Geography of Asia"
Western Asia and Northern Africa according to the UN political statistics geoscheme [15] Due to the geographic ambiguity and Eurocentric nature of the term "Middle East", some people, especially in sciences such as agriculture and climatology , prefer to use other terms like "WANA" ( West Asia and North Africa) [ 19 ] or the less common NAWA ...
Recentissima Asiae Delineatio, the 1730 geographical map of Johan Christoph Homann. Asia is shown in color. The names are in Latin. Asia, the central and eastern part of Eurasia, comprises approximately fifty countries.
Module:Location map/data/Asia Southwest; Module:Location map/data/Asia Southwest/doc; Global file usage. The following other wikis use this file: Usage on ar ...