MIDDLE EAST

ROM. Bucharest
30 UKR.

Krasnodar

40

50

60

Sevastopol' Constanta Varna

RUSSIA
KAZAKHSTAN
AU

KAZAKHSTAN

Gora El'brus
(highest point in Europe, 5633 m) C

Aral Sea

Sofia

BULGARIA
Thessalonk
40

Black Sea
Bosporus
DO
GU

CA

SU

Groznyy
S
MO

Aqtau

(Aktau)

UZBEKISTAN
Nukus Dasoguz
Am u

Sokhumi . Istanbul

UN

GEORGIA
KA

TA

IN

Samsun
RA
DE

Bat'umi

Tbilisi

Caspian Sea
(lowest point in Europe, -28 m)

rya Da

Aegean GREECE Sea

Athens

Bursa Dardanelles . Izmir Denizli

T
A
U

40

Ankara

NIZ

Trabzon
DAG

LARI

AZERBAIJAN ARMENIA Yerevan Baku Erzurum

Mount + Ararat

Sumqayit

TURKEY Kayseri
Konya
R

Buxoro Trkmenbas y TURKMENISTAN Balkanabat Trkmenabat

K

GARAGUM
O P P E

Antalya

Icel (Mersin)
Crete

O M.

UN

TA

IN

Van Diyarbakir Lake Van Gaziantep

Arbil

Ashgabat
H D A G H

Tabriz Lake Rasht Urmia EL BU RZ Zanjan Qazvin

Z

Mary

Adana

MTS.

Nicosia

Aleppo Latakia Hims

Golan Heights

Mosul Kirkuk

Ku h-e Dama vand +

Mashhad Herat

es rat ph Eu

Tehran
Qom Arak
DA
S
A

CYPRUS

SYRIA
S Y R

is Tigr

Mediterranean Sea
Alexandria
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QATTARA DEPRESSION

Beirut LEBANON
Haifa

Damascus
I A N

Baghdad

Kermanshah

AFG.
T-

ISRAEL
Port Jerusalem Said
Suez Canal Gaza Strip*

Amman
Dead Sea

West Bank* D

S E

IRAQ
- An Nasiriyah Al Basrah

Esfahan
O
U

SH

Ahvaz - Abadan Kuwait

IRAN
S

- T LU

(lowest point in Asia, -408 m)

Cairo
Al Jizah

Suez
SINAI PENINSULA

JORDAN
Al 'Aqabah
Tabuk

Kerman

30

Shiraz Bushehr Bandar 'Abbas

Strait of Hormuz

Zahedan

PAK.

f Gulf o

KUWAIT

ez Su

Asyut

Gulf of Aqaba

Ha'il -

Hafar -al Batin Buraydah Al Jubayl Ad Dammam Dhahran

EGYPT
D E S E R T

Persian Gulf
Manama

Luxor
H
E

BAHRAIN

QATAR

Tropic

of

Cancer

Aswan Yanbu' al Bahr

Administrative Boundary

Medina

SAUDI ARABIA

Riyadh

Doha

Abu Dhabi

Dubai

OMAN

Gulf of Oman

J
A

Muscat

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Hala'ib

Jiddah
20
N D U E B I A R N T

Mecca

S E

Red
le Ni

Port Sudan

Sea

B'

LI

OMAN
20

A
S
I

Abha

SUDAN
Omdurman

Salalah Jizan Al Ghaydah

Khartoum
Wad Madani
Blue

ERITREA Massawa Asmara

Sanaa
Al Hudaydah

YEMEN
Al Mukalla

Arabian Sea
Socotra
(YEMEN)

10

Scale 1:21,000,000
Lambert Conformal Conic Projection, standard parallels 12N and 38N Addis Ababa
0 0 300 Kilometers 300 Miles
GR EA T

VA L

RI FT

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Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative.

ile e N Whit

Nile

Aden T'ana Hayk'

Dese Lac'Assal
(lowest point in Africa, -155 m)

DJIBOUTI Djibouti

Bab el Mandeb

Gulf of Aden

10

Berbera Hargeysa
Y LE

SOMALIA

Golan Heights is Israeli-occupied Syria. West Bank and Gaza Strip are Israeli-occupied with current status subject to the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement -permanent status to be determined through further negotiation.

ETHIOPIA
40

Provisional Administrative Line

50

Israel proclaimed Jerusalem as its capital in 1950, but the US, like nearly all other countries, maintains its Embassy in Tel Aviv.

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