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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.
Maps of the Middle East (5 C) Populated places in the Middle East (26 C, 1 P) + Geography of Kurdistan (12 C, 9 P) Geography of Palestine (region) (10 C, 33 P)
The Middle East–North Africa region comprises 20 countries and territories with an estimated Muslim population of 315 million or about 23% of the world's Muslim population. [47] The term "MENA" is often defined in part in relation to majority-Muslim countries located in the region, although several nations in the region are not Muslim ...
The Arabian Peninsula is located in the continent of Asia and is bounded by (clockwise) the Persian Gulf on the northeast, the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman on the east, the Arabian Sea on the southeast, the Gulf of Aden, and the Guardafui Channel on the south, and the Bab-el-Mandeb strait on the southwest and the Red Sea, which is ...
Aerial View of the Arab world. Most of the Arab world falls in the driest region of the world. Almost 80% of it is covered in desert (10,666,637 of 13,333,296 km2), stretching from Mauritania and Morocco to Oman and the UAE.
The flooding of the Gulf may have stimulated the development of Neolithic farming cultures in regions of the Middle East adjacent to the Gulf. [27] Map depicting extent of early civilizations around the Persian Gulf, including Lackhmids and Sassanids. Map depicting the Achaemenid Persian empire in relation to the Persian Gulf.
The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse of Syria has led to calls for the region to be divided according to ...
Maps of the history of the Middle East (1 C, 2 P) E. Maps of Egypt (2 P) I. Maps of Israel (1 C, 4 P) P. Maps of the State of Palestine (1 C) This page was last ...