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Caravanserai in the Dasht-e Lut in the Kerman Province of Iran. The Lut Desert is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Image: Erik Albers
The southwestern part of Asia is called by many names: West Asia, Western Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East or Near East. The southwestern-most part of Asia is a region at the crossroads between Asia, Africa, and Europe. The terms have to some extent a similar notion as 'Middle East'.
Western Asia is bounded in the west by the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, in the north by the Black Sea, the Caucasus, and the Caspian Sea, on the east by the fringing mountains of Iran, and in the south by the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean.
The various regions of Western Asia include Asia Minor, aka Anatolia (peninsula), the Caucasus region, the Eastern Mediterranean or Levant, the historical region of Mesopotamia, the Armenian Highlands, the historical region of Syria, the geographical and historical region of Palestine, the Sinai Peninsula, the Arabian Peninsula with the Arabian desert ecoregion, and the Iranian Highlands (see maps below).
Map of Western Asia, including the Middle East and African countries bordering the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
Political Map of Western Asia, the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula and adjacent countries with borders, capitals and major cities.
The map shows Western Asia with international borders, capitals and major cities of the Middle East region, the Arabian Peninsula and African countries with a shoreline at the Red Sea.
You are free to use the above map for educational purposes (fair use); please refer to the Nations Online Project.
More about Western Asia
Topographic map of Western Asia.
The following states and dependent territories are geographically counted as part of Western Asia and the Middle East:
Arabian Peninsula
The Arabian Peninsula is the world's largest peninsula, situated in Southwest Asia with the Red Sea in the southwest, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman in the west and the Arabian Sea in the southeast.
By political definition, the countries situated on the peninsula are Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman, and Yemen. Saudi Arabia occupies most of the center. The island country of Bahrain is connected with Saudi Arabia by the King Fahd Causeway.
In the northern part of the peninsula is the Syrian Desert, which includes northeastern Jordan, southeastern Syria, and western Iraq.
To the northwest are Israel and the Palestinian territories along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
Sinai Peninsula
The Sinai Peninsula connects Asia with Africa, while the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara and the Bosporus form a narrow separation from Europe. The Sinai Peninsula is the only part of Egypt's territory that lies in Asia.
More about Western Asia:
Political Map of the Arabian Peninsula.
Political Map of the Persian Gulf.
Political Map of the Caspian Sea region.
Map of the Asian part of Egypt.
More about Asia:
A political map of Asia.
Information and maps for all capital cities in Asia.
Countries of Asia with population figures.
Flags of the Asian States.
Continents:
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From the most populated countries to the least populous nations in the world.
Countries of the Third World by various categories.
About the least developed countries in the world.
Countries of the Islamic World.
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