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The following is a list of countries in the Middle East sorted by projected population. Table. Rank Country (or dependent territory) 2020 projection [1] % of pop.
President of Djibouti. 8 May 1999. Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed. Prime Minister of Djibouti. 1 April 2013. Egypt. Northeast Africa [2] Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. President of Egypt.
The term Middle East has also been criticised by journalist Louay Khraish and historian Hassan Hanafi for being a Eurocentric and colonialist term. [2] [3] [27] The Associated Press Stylebook says that Near East formerly referred to the farther west countries while Middle East referred to the eastern ones, but that now they are synonymous. It ...
The Middle East–North Africa region comprises 20 countries and territories with an estimated Muslim population of 315 million or about 23% of the world's Muslim population. [47] The term "MENA" is often defined in part in relation to majority-Muslim countries located in the region, although several nations in the region are not Muslim ...
The Arab world straddles two continents, Africa and Asia. It is mainly oriented along an east–west axis. [citation needed] The West Asian Arab region comprises the Arabian Peninsula, most of the Levant (excluding Cyprus and Israel), most of Mesopotamia (excluding parts of Turkey and Iran) and the Persian Gulf region.
Flags of Arab countries, territories, and organisations usually include the color green, which is a symbol of Islam as well as an emblem of purity, fertility and peace. Common colors in Arab flags are Pan-Arab colors (red, black, white and green); common symbols include stars , crescents and the Shahada .
This is a list of Arab League countries and territories by population. Present. Population by Arab League country (top 10) ... List of Middle East countries by ...
India is the country with the largest Muslim population outside Muslim-majority countries with more than 200 million adherents. [23] The Middle East-North Africa region hosts 23% of the world's Muslims, and Islam is the dominant religion in every country in the region [24] other than Israel. [9]