MENA
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The term MENA, for "Middle East and North Africa", is an acronym often used in academic and business writing. The term generally covers an extensive region, extending from Morocco in northwest Africa to Iran in southeast Asia. It generally includes all the Arab Middle East and North Africa countries, as well as Iran but not Turkey.
[edit] List of countries
MENA is typically used to include the following countries, although no standard definition exists:
- Algeria
- Bahrain
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Morocco
- Oman
- Palestine (West Bank and Gaza)
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Syria
- Tunisia
- United Arab Emirates
- Yemen
[edit] Population
The population of the MENA region as it is typically defined comprises about 6% of the total world population, and is equivalent in number to one third of the population of China. The population of the MENA region is almost equivalent to the population of the European Union, and is one and a quarter times larger than the population of the United States.
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