GK
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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Human-Environment Interaction
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Relative Location
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Movement
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Middle East is, very generally speaking, an arid region in Southwest Asia and part of North Africa stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf, bounded by the Black and Caspian Seas in the north and the Sahara Desert and Indian Ocean in the south.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Middle East is a large and diverse geographical area located in southwest Asia and northeast Africa. It extends over 2, 000 miles from the Black Sea in the north to the Arabian Sea in the south, and about 1, 000 miles from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the mountains of Iran.
Detailed explanation-3: -West Asia, where most of the countries of the Middle East reside, used to be called the “Near East”, but the newer term “Middle East” also came into usage in the early part of the 20th century.
Detailed explanation-4: -Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen.