Southwest Asia
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Southwest Asia or Western Asia is the part of Asia that includes the Middle East.
[edit] Territories
Southwest Asia is in most uses meant to include:
- Armenia
- Bahrain
- Cyprus
- Sinai (eastern Egypt)
- Gaza Strip
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Lebanon
- Oman
- Pakistan (Balochistan only)
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Syria
- United Arab Emirates
- West Bank
- Yemen
- The Asian portions of
In addition, it is sometimes widened to include:
- Afghanistan
- The African portion of Egypt
- The European portions of
- Azerbaijan
- Georgia
- Turkey (Eastern Thrace or Rumelia)
- Adjacent parts of Central Asia (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan)
