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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.
Russia, or "the Russian Federation," is a nation of Europe. The "Northern Asia" name is unofficially recognized; for example, the UN Group of Experts on Geographical Names includes an Eastern Europe, Northern and Central Asia Division. "Northern Asia" comes from traditional usage, which divides Europe from Asia at the Ural Mountains.
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.
South West Asia location map.svg Module:Location map/data/Asia Southwest is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Southwest Asia . The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
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 (North Africa-West Asia). [20] Usage of the term WANA has also been advanced by postcolonial ...
UN geoscheme subregions of Asia. The United Nations geoscheme for Asia is an internal tool created and used by the United Nations, maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) for the specific purpose of UN statistics. [1] The scheme's subregions are presented here in alphabetical order.
Landforms of West Asia — the westernmost region of Asia. Subcategories. This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total. ...
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