Western Asia

Regions of Asia described by the UN:      North Asia      Central Asia      Western Asia      South Asia      East Asia      Southeast Asia      Eastern Europe

This region extends from Afghainstan and Yemen.Nearly every country in this region is an Islamic country.Western Asia (or Southwest Asia) is the part of Asia that includes the Middle East.

Territories

Southwest Asia is in most uses meant to include:

• Armenia
• Bahrain
• Cyprus
• Iraq
• Turkey
• Iran
• Israel
• Jordan
• Kuwait
• Lebanon
• Oman
• Qatar
• Saudi Arabia
• Syria
• United Arab Emirates
• Yemen
• The Asian portions of:
  • Azerbaijan
  • Georgia
  • Turkey (Asia Minor or Anatolia)

In addition, it is sometimes widened to include:

• Afghanistan
• All of Egypt
• All of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey
• Adjacent parts of Central Asia (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan)

Other websites

• Stanford's Map of Western Asia is an old map from 1885