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The term Middle East has also been criticised by journalist Louay Khraish and historian Hassan Hanafi for being a Eurocentric and colonialist term. 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 instructs:
The following is a list of countries in the Middle East sorted by projected population. Table. Rank Country (or dependent territory) 2020 projection % of pop.
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. 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-dominated. [48]
The Middle East was the first to experience a Neolithic Revolution (c. the 10th millennium BCE), as well as the first to enter the Bronze Age (c. 3300–1200 BC) and Iron Age (c. 1200–500 BC). Historically human populations have tended to settle around bodies of water, which is reflected in modern population density patterns.
Country GDP nominal billions of USD List of countries by GDP (per capita) Bahrain 44.994: 28,692 Cyprus 26.705: 53,705 Egypt 469.094: 4,504 Iran 464.181: 4,252 Iraq 282.876
Rank Country City Population Founding date Image 1 Egypt Cairo: 22,623,874 968 CE: 2 Iraq Baghdad: 8,126,755 762 CE: 3 Saudi Arabia Riyadh: 7,676,654 1746 CE: 4 Egypt ...
Arab national flags. Two vertical bands of green and white and the red crescent moon encircling the red five-pointed star in the center within the dividing line. A red field with the white serrated band with five points on the hoist-side. Three vertical stripes: blue, yellow, and red.
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.