MIDDLE EAST
ROM. Bucharest
30 UKR.
Krasnodar
40
50
Sevastopol' Constanta ¸ Varna
RUSSIA
KAZAKHSTAN
AU
60 Aral Sea
KAZAKHSTAN
Gora El'brus
(highest point in Europe, 5633 m)C
Sofia
BULGARIA
Thessaloníkí
40
Black Sea
Bosporus
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Groznyy
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Aqtau
(Aktau)
UZBEKISTAN
Nukus Dasoguz
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Samsun
RA
Bat'umi
Tbilisi
S
Caspian Sea
(lowest point in Europe, -28 m)
Aegean GREECE Sea
Athens
Bursa Dardanelles . Izmir Denizli
T
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40
Ankara
NIZ
Trabzon
DAG
LARI
AZERBAIJAN ARMENIA Yerevan Baku Erzurum
Mount + Ararat
Sumqayit
TURKEY Kayseri
Konya
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Buxoro Türkmenbasy TURKMENISTAN ¸ Balkanabat Türkmenabat
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Crete
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Arbil
Ashgabat
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Tabriz Lake Rasht Urmia EL BU RZ Zanjan Qazvin
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Mary
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Nicosia
CYPRUS
U
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Aleppo Latakia Hims ¸ ¸
Golan Heights
Mosul Kirkuk
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Mashhad Herat
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Tehran
Qom Arak
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SYRIA
S Y R
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Mediterranean Sea
Alexandria
30
QATTARA DEPRESSION
Beirut LEBANON
Haifa
Damascus
I A N
Baghdad
Kermanshah
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ISRAEL
Port Jerusalem Said
Suez Canal Gaza Strip*
Amman
Dead Sea
West Bank* D
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Esfahan ¸
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Ahvaz - Abadan Kuwait
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(lowest point in Asia, -408 m)
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Cairo
Al Jizah
Suez
SINAI PENINSULA
JORDAN
Al 'Aqabah
Tabuk
S
Kerman
30
Shiraz Bushehr Bandar 'Abbas
Strait of Hormuz
Zahedan
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KUWAIT
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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
BAHRAIN
QATAR
Tropic
of
Cancer
Aswan Yanbu' al Bahr ¸
Administrative Boundary
Medina
SAUDI ARABIA
Riyadh
Doha
Abu Dhabi
Dubai
OMAN
Gulf of Oman
E
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Muscat
A
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Hala'ib ¸
Jiddah
20
N D U E B I A R N T
Mecca
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Port Sudan
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20
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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 12˚N and 38˚N Addis Ababa
0 0 300 Kilometers 300 Miles
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GR EA T
VA L
FT
30
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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