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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 ...
La Francophonie: an international organization representing countries and regions where French is a lingua franca or customary language; LAC: Latin America and the Caribbean; LAMEA: Latin America, the Middle East and Africa; LATAM: Latin America; LATCAR: Latin America and Caribbean [12] Levant: Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria
Date: 13 September 2020: Source: This file was derived from: Arab World Green.svg by T.seppeltSources used in creating this map: 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 ...
Climate change in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) refers to changes in the climate of the MENA region and the subsequent response, adaption and mitigation strategies of countries in the region. In 2018, the MENA region emitted 3.2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide and produced 8.7% of global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) [64] despite ...
Own work, derived from File:MENA.svg (MENA map according to the World Bank). Source used in creating this map: The UNAIDS regional classification of the Middle East and North Africa region 'includes 20 countries/territories: Algeria, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia ...
The MENA region includes the richest oil countries in the world and the poorest such as Yemen and Djibouti. The last places of HDI in the MENA region are Sudan, Djibouti, and Yemen. Data about Palestine is not included in the HDI ranking. The table below shows the MENA countries according to their Human Development Index scores in 2018: [22]
He alluded to the Greater Middle East as the "Global Balkans", and as a control lever on an area he refers to as Eurasia. [13] [page needed] According to Andrew Bacevich's 2016 book America's War for the Greater Middle East, this region is the theater for a series of conflicts dating back to 1980, which heralded the start of the Iran–Iraq War.
The United Nations geoscheme is a system which divides 248 countries and territories in the world into six continental regions, 22 geographical subregions, and two intermediary regions. [1] It was devised by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) based on the M49 coding classification. [2]