Middle East

MIDDLE EAST ROM. Bucharest

30

UKR.

Krasnodar

Sevastopol' Constanta ¸

Sofia

Varna

BULGARIA

50

40

Gora El'brus (highest point in Europe, 5633 m)C

Black Sea

CA

+

SU

GU

KA

T

Konya

A

U

R

Antalya

U

S

M .O

UN

A

T

Al Jubayl Ad Dammam Dhahran

Buraydah

Medina

A

Hala'ib ¸

N

U

B

I

A

N

D

E

S E

R

T

A

S

R

I

Sea

Port Sudan

Kerman

S

Zahedan

30

PAK.

Bandar 'Abbas

QATAR

Strait of Hormuz

Dubai

OMAN

Abu Dhabi

Gulf of Oman

Muscat

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Mecca

Red le Ni

N

Manama

ARABIA

Jiddah 20

I

IRAN

Doha

Riyadh

SAUDI

Z

Yanbu' al Bahr ¸ Administrative Boundary

A

Persian Gulf

BAHRAIN

J

Cancer

T

Shiraz Bushehr

E

of

AFG.

KUWAIT

H

Tropic

N

- Abadan

Hafar ¸ -¸al Batin

Ha'il ¸-

Aswan

Herat

- T LU

Tabuk

Luxor

T

H

E

-¸ An Nasiriyah Al Basrah ¸

Al 'Aqabah

G

Mashhad

T-

(lowest point in Asia, -408 m)

A

SH

R

U

Ahvaz

JORDAN

Mary

DA

S E

O

E

IRAQ

Gulf of Aqaba

EGYPT D

T

R

Ashgabat H

Ku¯h-e Dama¯vand +

Esfahan ¸

Kuwait

Asyut

N

N

M

R

S E

A

S

E

I

E

O

T

R

S

Kermanshah

Baghdad

P

Arak

G

SINAI PENINSULA

ez Su

E

E

Amman

A

Gaza Strip*

Suez

Al Jizah

f Gulf o

W

West Bank*D

R

P

Qom

Dead Sea

Suez Canal

Cairo

S Y

M T S.

Z

ISRAEL Port Jerusalem Said

is Tigr

Golan Heights

Haifa Alexandria

es rat ph Eu

Damascus

GARAGUM O

Tehran

Kirkuk

Hims ¸ ¸

Beirut LEBANON

Mediterranean Sea

Mosul

40

Buxoro Türkmenbas¸y TURKMENISTAN Balkanabat Türkmenabat

D

Lake Rasht Urmia EL BU RZ Zanjan Qazvin

Arbil

SYRIA

CYPRUS

Sumqayit

Tabriz

Gaziantep

Am u

Dasoguz

(lowest point in Europe, -28 m)

K

Aleppo Latakia

Nicosia

Crete

S

Mount + Ararat

Van Diyarbakir Lake Van

Adana

IN

Nukus

Caspian Sea

AZERBAIJAN ARMENIA Yerevan Baku Erzurum

LARI

IN

Icel ¸ (Mersin)

QATTARA DEPRESSION

DAG

TURKEY Kayseri

Denizli

30

Trabzon

NIZ

S

Athens

DE

TA

Tbilisi

Bat'umi

Samsun RA

Ankara

Dardanelles . Izmir

UN

GEORGIA

Bursa

Aegean GREECE Sea

MO

UZBEKISTAN

(Aktau)

S

rya Da

40

Aqtau

Groznyy

Sokhumi DO

KAZAKHSTAN

KAZAKHSTAN AU

Bosporus

. Istanbul

Thessaloníkí

60 Aral Sea

RUSSIA

U

B'

A

L

K

H

A

OMAN

LI

20

R

Abha

SUDAN Omdurman

Salalah ¸ Jizan

Khartoum

Sanaa

Nile

Bab el Mandeb

VA L RI

FT

300 Miles GR EA T

30

10

(lowest point in Africa, -155 m)

Berbera Hargeysa

300 Kilometers

Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative.

(YEMEN)

Lac'Assal

Lambert Conformal Conic Projection, standard parallels 12˚N and 38˚N Addis Ababa 0

Arabian Sea Socotra

Gulf of Aden

DJIBOUTI Djibouti

Dese-

Scale 1:21,000,000

0

Al Mukalla-

Aden T'ana Hayk'

10

YEMEN

Al Hudaydah ¸

Blue

ile e N Whit

Wad Madani-

Al Ghaydah ¸

ERITREA Massawa Asmara

SOMALIA

Golan Heights is Israeli-occupied Syria.

Y LE

ETHIOPIA 40

West Bank and Gaza Strip are Israeli-occupied with current status subject to the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement -permanent status to be determined through further negotiation. Provisional Administrative Line

50

Israel proclaimed Jerusalem as its capital in 1950, but the US, like nearly all other countries, maintains its Embassy in Tel Aviv.

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