West Asia PPT by: Mrs. Ar Joi C. Proctan Teacher II Mina National High School Mina, Iloilo

1. Unit IV-
Western Asia
Reporter:
Ar Joi Corneja-Proctan
Ma.Ed. Social Studies

2. Western Asia, West Asia, Southwest
Asia or Southwestern Asia
• describe the westernmost portion of Asia.
• partly coterminous with the Middle East, which describes a
geographical position in relation to Western Europe rather
than its location within Asia.
• due to this perceived Eurocentrism, international
organizations such as the United Nations, have
replaced Middle East and Near East with Western Asia.
• This region and Europe are collectively referred to
as Western Eurasia.

5. TURKEY BAHRAIN KUWAIT OMAN
Ankara Manama Kuwait City Muscat
TURKEY
Islam
BAHRAIN
Islam
KUWAIT
Islam
OMAN
Islam
Turkish Arabic Arabic Arabic
QATAR SAUDI ARABIA UNITED ARAB YEMEN
Doha SAUDI
Riyadh UNITED ARAB
EMIRATES
San’a
QUATAR Abu Dhabi YEMEN
Islam ARABIA
Islam EMIRATES
Islam Islam
Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic
ARMANIA AZARBAIJAN GEORGIA CYPRUS
Yerevan Baku Tbilisi Nicosia
ARMANIA
Christian
AZARBAJAN
Islam
GEORGIA
Christian
CYPRUS
Orthodox
Armanian Azerbaijani Georgian Greek/Turkish
IRAQ ISRAEL JORDAN LEBANON
Bghdad Jerusalem Amman Beirut
IRAQ
Islam
ISRAEL
Judaism
JORDAN
Islam
LEBANON
Islam
Arabic Hebrew Arabic Arabic
SYRIA IRAN AFGHANISTAN EGYPT
Damascus Tehran Kabul Cairo
SYRIA IRAN AFGHANISTAN EGYPT
Islam Islam Islam Islam
Arabic Farsi Pushtu Arabic

6. Geography
• is a small island state near the western
shores of the Persian Gulf. It is ruled by
the Al Khalifa royal family.
Topography
• Bahrain is a generally flat and
arid archipelago in the Persian Gulf, east
of Saudi Arabia. It consists of a low desert
plain rising gently to a low central
escarpment with the highest point the
134 m (440 ft) Mountain of Smoke (Jabal
ad Dukhan).
Climate
• Bahrain has mild winters and very hot,
humid summers.
• Dust storms from Iraq and Saudi Arabia
transported by northwesterly winds cause
reduced visibility in the months of June
and July.

7. • Bahrain is sometimes described as "Middle East lite“
due to its combination of modern infrastructure with a
Persian Gulf identity.
• Islam is the main religion, Bahrainis are known for
their tolerance towards the practice of other faiths.
• In common with the rest of the Muslim world, though
Bahrain has take strong strides for women's rights, it
does not recognise lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender rights
• Another facet of the new openness is Bahrain's
status as the most prolific book publisher in the Arab
world, with 132 books published in 2005 for a
population of 700,000.

8. Iraq
• a country in Western
Asia spanning most of the
northwestern end of the Zagros
mountain range, the eastern
part of the Syrian Desert and
the northern part of the Arabian
Desert.
• Iraq borders Syria to the
northwest, Turkey to the
north, Iran to the east, Jordan to
the southwest
and Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to
the south. Iraq has a narrow
section of coastline measuring
58 km (36 mi) on the
northern Persian Gulf. The
capital city, Baghdad is in the
center-east of the country.