The Middle East

Countries of the Middle East

Iran, Afghanistan,Pakistan,Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan,Uzbekistan,Turkmenistan,Turkey, Syria,Lebanon,Iraq,Israel,Palestine,Jordan,Kuwait,Bahrain,Saudi Arabia,United Arab Emirates,Oman,Yemen, Egypt

Location● Exact Location: 29° N, 41° E (Saudi Arabia)

○ Turkey: 35N 5E○ Iraq: 33N 44E○ Pakistan: 33N 73E○ Oman: 23N 58E○ Saudi Arabia: 24N 46E○ Yemen: 14N 44E○ Iran: 35N 51E

● Relative Location:

Landforms● Anatolian Plateau● An Nafud Desert● Ar Rub’ Al Khali Desert● Arabian Desert● Asir and Hejaz Mountains● Caucasus Mountains● Dash e-Lut● Elburz Mountains● Hadramawt● Hindu Kush● Karakum Desert● Pamie● Syrian Desert● Taurus Mountains● Tien Shan● Zagros Mountains

Movement

● 13 million first-generation migrants from Arab nations

● Migration

Features

The Great Pyramid of Giza

The Lost City of Petra

The Old City of Jerusalem

Hagia Sofia

Climate

● Dry and hot● Global warming● human interactions and ecosystem

o settle around the limited fresh water supplyo Civilizations concentrate around fertile soil.

Water● water supply

-very limited in the Middle east● drinking water

-have to use desalination to get it● rivers in the area

-Tigris,Euphrates and the Nile river● Used for Ports

The Middle East is a region that roughly encompasses a majority of Western Asia and Egypt.

Region: an area that has definable characteristics but it doesn’t have fixed boundaries.- It is primarily a desert with some small areas of fertile land close to the major rivers.

Map of population density

Demographics

Population

● Farming● Pollute water● Oil

Interaction with Environment

Land use and resources

Culture● Ethnic/Social Groups: Arabs, Turks, Persians, Balochs,Pashtuns,

Lurs, Mandaeans, Tats, Jews, Kurds, Somalis, Assyrians, Egyptian Copts, Armenians, Azeris, Maltese,Circassians, Greeks, Turcomans, Shabaks, Yazidis, Georgians, Roma, Gagauz, Mhallami and Samaritans.

● Religion: Islam Judaism, Christianity, Bahá'í Faith, Yazdânism, Zoroastrianism, Mandeanism, Druze, Yarsan,Yazidism and Shabakism.

● Languages: Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Berber, and Kurdish.

● Interactions with others: through trade

Economy

● Diverse● Oil● Cash crops

Oil

Resources

● Oil● Natural gas and phosphate● Water● Pollution

Resources● http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/asia/middleeast/melnd.htm● http://worldregionsproject.wikispaces.com/Global+Interactions+of+Middle+East● http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East● http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Middle_East● http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/meriv.htm● http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_politics_in_the_Middle_East