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A comprehensive and updated list of Middle Eastern countries and their populations, based on reliable sources and data.
Middle East map of Köppen climate classification. The Middle East (term originally coined in English [see § Terminology ] [note 1]) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq. The term came into widespread usage as a replacement of the term Near East (as opposed to the Far East ...
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. 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-dominated. [48]
The Arab world straddles two continents, Africa and Asia. It is mainly oriented along an east–west axis. [citation needed] The West Asian Arab region comprises the Arabian Peninsula, most of the Levant (excluding Cyprus and Israel), most of Mesopotamia (excluding parts of Turkey and Iran) and the Persian Gulf region.
Country GDP nominal billions of USD List of countries by GDP (per capita) Bahrain 44.994: 28,692 Cyprus 26.705: 53,705 Egypt 469.094: 4,504 Iran 464.181: 4,252 Iraq 282.876
The Middle East was the first to experience a Neolithic Revolution (c. the 10th millennium BCE), as well as the first to enter the Bronze Age (c. 3300–1200 BC) and Iron Age (c. 1200–500 BC). Historically human populations have tended to settle around bodies of water, which is reflected in modern population density patterns.
List of countries on the Mediterranean Sea. Below is the list of the countries and territories bordering the Mediterranean, listed clockwise from Gibraltar on the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula: Southern European coast, from west to east Spain Gibraltar (British Overseas Territory) France Monaco Italy Malta
Category:Middle Eastern countries. Appearance. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Countries of the Middle East. Countries in the Middle East — Territories and countries in the Middle Eastern subregion of West Asia and Egypt in North Africa. See also: Category:West Asian countries.