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Near East and Middle East are both Eurocentric terms. [4] According to National Geographic, the terms Near East and Middle East denote the same territories and are "generally accepted as comprising the countries of the Arabian Peninsula, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian territories, Syria, and Turkey". [5]
This is a list of countries by easternmost point on land (dependent territories included). The order does not always reflect how close a country's territory is to the 180th meridian . Russia, Fiji, and Antarctica are notable exceptions because the 180th meridian passes through them.
The ancient Near East was the first to practice intensive year-round agriculture and currency-mediated trade (as opposed to barter), gave the rest of the world the first writing system, invented the potter's wheel and then the vehicular and mill wheel, created the first centralized governments and law codes, served as birthplace to the first ...
In contrast, "Far East" referred to the countries of East Asia (e.g. China, Japan, and Korea). [23] [24] With the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, "Near East" largely fell out of common use in English, while "Middle East" came to be applied to the emerging independent countries of the Islamic world.
The Caucasus forest refugium is the largest throughout the Western Asian (near Eastern) region. [71] [72] The area has multiple representatives of disjunct relict groups of plants with the closest relatives in Eastern Asia, southern Europe, and even North America. [73] [74] [75] Over 70 species of forest snails of the region are endemic. [76]
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.
The Near East — a region of Asia, now predominantly known as/named the Middle East in the English language. The contemporary terms Near East and Middle East usually denote the same territories of West Asia .
East African Community (EAC) is an intergovernmental organisation composed of six countries in the African Great Lakes region in eastern Africa: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda,Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and the DRC.