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Western Asia (or Southwest Asia) is the part of Asia that includes the Middle East and South Caucasus.
Territories
[change | change source]Southwest Asia in most uses includes:
Armenia
Azerbaijan (partly)
Bahrain
Cyprus
Egypt (partly)
Georgia (partly)
Iraq
Iran
Israel
Jordan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Oman
Palestine
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Turkey (partly)
United Arab Emirates
Yemen
Other websites
[change | change source]- Stanford's Map of Western Asia is an old map from 1885