Present Day Middle East Map

Egypt remains locked in a protracted process of political transition after the resignation of the long serving leader hosni mubarak in february 2011 with most of the real political power still in the hands of the military mass anti government protests in july 2013 forced the army to remove egypt s first democratically elected president mohammed morsi amid deep polarization between the islamists and secular groups.

Present day middle east map. This page was last updated on june 16 2020. Warm welcomes await in the middle east a troubled but tantalising region that nurtured the world s earliest civilizations and gave rise to three of its great religions our map of the middle east will help you plan your journey. Combined the areas of palestine and israel make up 26 790 km2. The inhabitants of mesopotamia raised crops on this rich but dry land by developing and using complex irrigation systems so successful that they resulted in a surplus of food the ancient near east.

He and his wife chris woolwine moen produced thousands of award winning maps that are used all over the world and content that aids students teachers travelers and parents with their geography and map questions. The area was viewed as midway between europe and east asia traditionally. Print this map larger printable easier to read middle east map. In the early 7th century ad in present day saudi arabia the prophet mohammed founded islam which his followers considered a community as well.

Map 1 3 the ancient near east map caption the region of the near east between the tigris and euphrates rivers called mesopotamia is thought to be the birthplace of civilization non nomadic societies characterized by agriculture and cities. The dead sea fault zone dsfz and the north and east anatolian fault zones nafz and eafz. That is about the size of the us state of hawaii 28 313 km2 the caribbean. Tapering minarets pierce the sky in sprawling metropolises like tehran where the days are punctuated by the evocative call to prayer.

This study deduces an internally consistent solution for the present day kinematics of these plates which is accurate to better than 20 and applicable throughout. Thus defined it includes cyprus the asian part of turkey syria lebanon israel the west bank and gaza jordan iraq iran the countries of the arabian peninsula saudi arabia yemen oman united arab emirates qatar bahrain kuwait and egypt and libya. How big are palestine and israel. The middle east and eastern mediterranean regions contain three major strike slip fault zones.