1. The document is a map of the Middle East region showing the countries of the Middle East and surrounding areas including their major cities and physical features. 2. The map shows the countries of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and others in the region along with their capital cities and other major population centers. 3. Major physical features like the Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf and Red Sea are indicated along with major mountain ranges like the Caucasus and Zagros mountains.

1. MIDDLE EAST
ROM. 30 UKR. 40 50 60
Bucharest Krasnodar Aral
KAZAKHSTAN
Sevastopol'
Constanta
¸
RUSSIA Sea
Gora El'brus
(highest point in
KAZAKHSTAN
Sofia Europe, 5633 m)C
-
Aqtau
Varna
Black Sea AU
CA Groznyy (Aktau) UZBEKISTAN
BULGARIA + SU
S Nukus
Sokhumi MO
UN
Caspian Am
Thessaloníkí . Bosporus GEORGIA
TA
IN
S
Sea Dasoguz u
Istanbul DO Bat'umi Tbilisi (lowest point in
Da
GU Samsun Europe, -28 m)
rya
KA
40 RA 40
Bursa DE
NIZ Trabzon Sumqayit
Aegean Ankara DAG ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN Türkmenbasy TURKMENISTAN
¸ Buxoro
Dardanelles LARI
GREECE Erzurum Yerevan Baku Balkanabat
. Mount + Türkmenabat
Sea Izmir TURKEY Kayseri Ararat
K
O
GARAGUM
Athens P Ashgabat Mary
Denizli Van P
Konya - E
S
Tabriz H
T
IN Diyarbakir Lake
A
A Van D
U
R T
Antalya U UN Lake A
G
S O
M.
Adana Gaziantep Rasht H
Urmia EL
Icel
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(Mersin) - Zanjan RZ
M T S. Kuh-e
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Mashhad
Arbil - Damavand
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Aleppo Mosul Qazvin +
Nicosia
Eu
Crete Latakia Tehran -
Herat
ph
Kirkuk
rat
SYRIA
Z
Tigr
CYPRUS Qom
es
A
Hims
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is
G
Beirut - -
Arak
Mediterranean Sea AFG.
R
Damascus Kermanshah
LEBANON
DA
Baghdad
O
Golan S Y R I A N
S
Haifa -
SH
Heights Esfahan
¸
M
ISRAEL IRAQ IRAN
T-
O
West Bank* E S E R T U
Port Jerusalem D N
E
Alexandria Said Amman T
-
Ahvaz A
LU
Dead Sea I
- T
30 Suez (lowest point in Asia, -408 m) N - 30
Cairo Canal Gaza Strip* -¸ -
An Nasiriyah - - S Kerman
QATTARA Suez JORDAN Abadan
DEPRESSION -
Al Jizah Al Al Basrah
¸ - -
Zahedan
SINAI
'Aqabah - PAK.
PENINSULA Shiraz
Gulf o
Kuwait -
Bushehr
- KUWAIT
f
Tabuk
Su
ez
Hafar
¸ Bandar
- -¸-
al Batin -
'Abbas
¸-
Asyut Gulf of
W E S T E R N Aqaba Ha'il Persian
Al Jubayl
EGYPT Luxor
Buraydah Ad Dammam-
Dhahran
Gulf
Manama Strait of
Hormuz
D E S E R T OMAN
BAHRAIN QATAR Dubai
Abu Gulf of
H
Doha Oman
E
Riyadh Dhabi
J
-
Aswan Medina Muscat
SAUDI
A
Tropic
of Cancer
Z
Yanbu' UNITED ARAB
al Bahr
¸ EMIRATES
Administrative
Boundary -
Hala'ib
¸
ARABIA
Jiddah
A
LI OMAN
20
N U B I A N Mecca H 20
D E S E R T K
Red A
L
A
B'
S
le Port Sudan Sea U
Ni R
I
R
-
Abha
SUDAN -
Jizan
¸ -
Salalah
Omdurman Al Ghaydah
¸
Khartoum ERITREA Massawa
Sanaa
Asmara YEMEN
Wad
-
Madani Al Arabian Sea
Whit
Hudaydah
¸ -
Al Mukalla
e N
Blue
ile
Nile
Aden
T'ana Socotra
-
Hayk' Bab el
Mandeb
Gulf of Aden (YEMEN)
DJIBOUTI
-
Dese Djibouti
10 Scale 1:21,000,000 Lac'Assal 10
(lowest point in Africa, -155 m)
Lambert Conformal Conic Projection, Berbera
standard parallels 12˚N and 38˚N
0
Addis Ababa
300 Kilometers
Hargeysa SOMALIA Golan Heights is Israeli-occupied Syria.
Y West Bank and Gaza Strip are Israeli-occupied with current
LE
L
0 300 Miles status subject to the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement --
VA
ETHIOPIA permanent status to be determined through further negotiation.
FT
RI
Provisional
Boundary representation is
T
Administrative Line Israel proclaimed Jerusalem as its capital in 1950, but the US, like
EA
not necessarily authoritative. nearly all other countries, maintains its Embassy in Tel Aviv.
GR
30 40 50 60
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