Middle East

The Middle East (also called Southwestern Asia) is a region comprising the lands that extend from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. The Middle East is a subregion of Africa-Eurasia, or more specifically, Asia, and sometimes North Africa and Afghanistan.

Regions of the Middle East

Main article: Middle Eastern Regions

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• Iranian Plateau
• Armenian plateau(Anatolia) - Turkey
• Mediterranean Sea - Cyprus
• Arabia, see Persian Gulf States - Saudi Arabia, Qatar, U.A.E., Oman, Yemen, Bahrain - Iraq
• The Levant - Syria, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Egypt's Sinai Peninsula