Middle East physical map
Middle East physical map.
The geography of the Middle East has to be considered according to the definition that we take for the Middle East, if we refer to the geographical area between the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea: the Levantine Sea, to the west; the line drawn by the border between Iran on the one hand and Pakistan and Afghanistan on the other, to the east; the Turkish-Iranian border with the countries of the Caucasus, the Turkish with Bulgaria and Greece on the north-west and the respective terrestrial borders of Egypt and the maritime borders of Yemen and Oman on the south; this geographical area includes a total of sixteen countries for a total area of 6,997,934 km². Map 2004.
The geography of the Middle East has to be considered according to the definition that we take for the Middle East, if we refer to the geographical area between the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea: the Levantine Sea, to the west; the line drawn by the border between Iran on the one hand and Pakistan and Afghanistan on the other, to the east; the Turkish-Iranian border with the countries of the Caucasus, the Turkish with Bulgaria and Greece on the north-west and the respective terrestrial borders of Egypt and the maritime borders of Yemen and Oman on the south; this geographical area includes a total of sixteen countries for a total area of 6,997,934 km². Map 2004.
