How Much Do You Actually Know About The Middle East?

Others include Hebrew, Farsi, and Pashto, depending on the definition of the Middle East one uses.

Egypt or Turkey might also be included, and they straddle the Asian boundaries with Europe and Africa, respectively.

Especially Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

Most likely in Iraq, near the Turkish border.

Of Saudi Arabia. Akkad no longer exists; Istanbul is not the capital of Turkey (Ankara is) and Dubai is not the capital of the UAE (Abu Dhabi is).

The term often refers to the UAE, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait.

The poll collected limited results in the Middle East, but Iraqis certainly saw Israel as the greatest threat worldwide.

9770 square kilometers, with Iraq just behind at 8250. Turkey has the most in the broader Middle East.

Somewhere between $124900 and $138900, international. The only major database which places Qatar second is the CIA World Factbook, which ranks Liechtenstein higher.

According to Our World in Data, 10,819.

Held by Yemen, with an index of 0.463. The two “highest” ranks are both held by the US, and the lowest population density in Asia is Mongolia.

MERS stands for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. Ironically, it is thought to have come from camels.

In fact, 39 were American-born, while only 9 were Middle Eastern-born. More people came from elsewhere, including Africa and other parts of Asia, than from the Middle East.

The Khoisan languages are spoken primarily in southwestern Africa.