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A 2003 World Bank study stated: "In World Bank geographic classification, the following 21 countries or territories constitute the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates [UAE]), and 15 other countries or territories: Algeria ...
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.
Group of Two (G2): hypothetical and informal grouping between the United States and China, representing the countries with the two largest economies in the world EU's G6 - France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom - countries with largest populations and thus the majority of votes in the Council of the European Union
English: The MENA (Middle East and North Africa) or WANA (West Asia and North Africa) region according to 13 definitions: 7 from United Nations agencies/programmes, 3 from agricultural organisations, 2 from demographics research institutes, 1 from historians. Dark blue countries/territories are included in more than 66% of definitions, skyblues ...
The Middle East, it turned out, possessed the world's largest easily untapped reserves of crude oil, the most important commodity in the 20th century. The discovery of oil in the region made many of the kings and emirs of the Middle East immensely wealthy and enabled them to consolidate their hold on power while giving them a stake in ...
The region mostly corresponds with the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) definition. In post-classical history, the Arab world was synonymous with the historic Arab empires and caliphates. [22] Arab nationalism arose in the second half of the 19th century along with other nationalist movements within the Ottoman Empire.
The Biden administration’s proposal to add a “Middle Eastern or North African” identifier, or MENA, to official documents like the census is the latest progress in a decadeslong fight to ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Middle East Countries (2018) Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq (Iraqi Kurdistan), Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, North Cyprus *, Oman, Palestine *, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria (DFNS), Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen *Not a UN member This is a list of modern conflicts ensuing in the geographic ...