Socotra (Yemen) Mt. Ararat 16,945 ft. (5,165 m) Mt. Damavand 18,934 ft. (5,771 m) Dead Sea -1,312 ft. (- 400 m) Mt. Hermon 9,232 ft. (2,814 m) M e d i t e r r a n e a n S e a G u lf of A d e n Red Sea ATLANTIC OCEAN INDIAN OCEAN C a s p i a n S e a G u lf of O m an P ersian G u l f Bosporus Dardanelles Sea of Marmara Strait of Hormuz Gulf of Sidra Black Sea Western Sahara (Morocco) MOROCCO TUNISIA LIBYA SUDAN EGYPT Nubian Desert S A H A R A L I B Y A N D E S E R T ATLAS M O U N T A I N S M O U N T A I N S A H A G G A R E u p h r a t e s R i v e r Ti g r i s R i v e r Nile Suez Canal River W h i t e N i l e B lu e N il e Lake Urmia Lake Van L. Nasser T a u r u s M o u n tains P o ntic M o u n t a i n s Z AG R O S M O U N T A I N S E lb u rz M o u ntain s A natolia Plateau of Iran ARABIAN PENINSULA H e j a z N a j d Syrian Desert Dasht-e-Kavir Dasht-e-Lut R u b A l - K h a l i An-Nafud CYPRUS ISRAEL JORDAN LEBANON SYRIA TURKEY IRAQ IRAN SAUDI ARABIA YEMEN OMAN UNITED ARAB EMIRATES BAHRAIN QATAR KUWAIT OMAN ALGERIA 0° Equator 20°N 40°N 0° 40°E 60°E Tropic of Capricorn N Elevation Mountain peak (4,000 m) (2,000 m) (1,000 m) (200 m) (0 m) Below sea level 13,100 ft. 6,600 ft. 3,275 ft. 650 ft. 0 ft. 0 0 500 1,000 kilometers 500 1,000 miles North Africa and Southwest Asia: Physical Physical Geography 202 UNIT 3 202-209 Unit 3 Opener/EH 10/17/02 12:01 PM Page 202
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Socotra(Yemen)
Mt. Ararat16,945 ft.(5,165 m)
Mt. Damavand18,934 ft. (5,771 m)
Dead Sea-1,312 ft.(-400 m)
Mt. Hermon9,232 ft.(2,814 m)
Medi terranean Sea
Gulf of Aden
Red Sea
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Gulf of Oman
PersianGulf
Bosporus
Dardanelles
Sea ofMarmara
Strait ofHormuz
Gulf ofSidra
B l a c k S e a
WesternSahara
(Morocco)
MOROCCO
TUNISIA
LIBYA
SUDAN
EGYPT
NubianDesert
S A H A R A
LI B
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ATLAS MOUNTAINS
MOUNTAINSAHAGGAR
Euphrat e s RiverTigris
River
Nile
SuezCanal
River
Whi
teN
ile
BlueN
ile
LakeUrmia
LakeVan
L. Nasser
Taurus Mountains
Pontic Mountains
ZAGRO
SM
OUNTAINS
Elburz Mountains
Anatolia
Plateau of Iran
ARABIAN PENINSULA
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SyrianDesert
Dasht-e-Kavir
Dasht-e-Lut
R u b A l - K h a l i
An-Nafud
CYPRUS
ISRAEL
JORDAN
LEBANONSYRIA
TURKEY
IRAQIRAN
SAUDI ARABIA
YEMEN
OMAN
UNITED ARABEMIRATES
BAHRAINQATAR
KUWAIT
OMAN
ALGERIA
0° Equator
20°N
40°N
0°
40°E 60°E
Tropic of Capricorn
N
Elevation
Mountain peak
(4,000 m)(2,000 m)(1,000 m)
(200 m)(0 m)
Below sea level
13,100 ft.6,600 ft.3,275 ft.
650 ft.0 ft.
0
0 500 1,000 kilometers
500 1,000 miles
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Mediterranean Sea
Gulf of Aden
Red Sea
INDIANOCEAN
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
CYPRUS
ISRAEL
JORDAN
LEBANONSYRIA
TURKEY
IRAQ IRAN
SAUDIARABIA
YEMEN
OMAN
U.A.E.
BAHRAIN
QATAR
KUWAITALGERIA
TUNISIA
LIBYAEGYPT
SUDAN
MOROCCO
CaspianSea
PersianGulfWestern
Sahara(Morocco)
20°N
40°N
0° 60°E
Inches of Precipitation per Year
0–4
5–8
9–15
16–24
25–39
40–55
56–63
64–78
79–110
111–157
158–220
221–315
316–393
394–472
0
0 500 1,000 kilometers
500 1,000 miles
N
United States
North Africa and Southwest Asia
North Africa and Southwest Asia412,667,364
Continental United States
United States281,421,906
5,600,859 square miles
3,165,630 square miles
= 50,000,000
North Africa andSouthwest Asia
GEOGRAPHY SKILLBUILDER: InterpretingMaps and Visuals1. Region • Name three countries that get less than
10 inches of rain per year.2. Region • Name the countries that border the Red Sea.
WORLD’S LONGEST RIVER:Nile, 4,132 mi.
WORLD’S LARGEST DESERT:Sahara, 3,350,000 sq. mi.
WORLD’S HIGHEST RECORDEDTEMPERTURE: 136ºF at El Azizia, Libya,on September 13, 1922
WORLD’S LARGEST SUPPLY OF OIL:259 billion barrels of proven oil reservesin Saudi Arabia
DRIEST AREA IN THE WORLD:Nearly two-thirds of this region is desert.
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Comparisons of Landmass and Population of the United States, North Africa, and Southwest Asia
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Rabat
Algiers
OranCasablanca
Tunis
Tripoli
GizaCairo
Alexandria
AdanaIzmir
IstanbulSamsun
Ankara
Tehran
Esfahan
Mashhad
Tabriz
Erzurum
Shiraz
Muscat
Qom
Sanaa
Abu Dhabi
Riyadh
Doha
Manama
Aden
MeccaJidda
Medina
Amman
BaghdadDamascus
Aleppo
Basra
Kuwait
Mosul
Jerusalem
Beirut
Khartoum
Omdurman
Nicosia
Socotra(Yemen)
Med i terranean Sea
Gulf of Aden
Red Sea
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
INDIAN
OCEAN
Ca
s pi a
nS
ea
Gulf of Oman
PersianGulf
Bosporus
Dardanelles
Sea ofMarmara
Strait ofHormuz
Gulf ofSidra
B l a c k S e a
WesternSahara
(Morocco)
MOROCCO
TUNISIA
LIBYA
SUDAN
EGYPT
Euphrates R.
Tigris
Nile
SuezCanal
R.
Whi
teN
ile
BlueN
ile
R.
LakeUrmia
LakeVan
L. Nasser
CYPRUS
ISRAEL
JORDAN
LEBANON
SYRIA
TURKEY
IRAQIRAN
SAUDIARABIA
YEMEN
OMANUNITED ARABEMIRATES
BAHRAIN
QATAR
KUWAIT
OMAN
ALGERIA
0° Equator
20°N
40°N
0°
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Tropic of Capricorn
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National boundary
National capital
Other city
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Mediterranean Sea
Gulf of Aden
Red Sea
Western Sahara(Morocco)
ATLANTICOCEAN
INDIANOCEAN
MOROCCO TUNISIA
ALGERIALIBYA
SUDAN
EGYPT
TURKEY
IRANIRAQ
U.A.E.
SAUDIARABIA
JORDAN
SYRIA
KUWAIT
ISRAELLEBANON
CYPRUS
QATAR
BAHRAIN
YEMEN
OMAN
40°N
10°N
30°N
10°W 50°E 60°E0°
Christian
Druze
Jewish
Sunni Muslim
Shi’ite Muslim
Religious group
0
0 200 400 kilometers
200 400 miles
N
Mediterranean Sea
Gulf of Aden
Red Sea
WesternSahara
(Morocco)
MOROCCO TUNISIA
ALGERIALIBYA
SUDAN
EGYPT
T U R K E Y
I R A NIRAQ
U.A.E.S A U D I
A R A B I A
JORDAN
SYRIA
KUWAIT
ISRAELLEBANON
CYPRUS
QATAR
BAHRAIN
YEMEN
OMAN
INDIANOCEAN
ATLANTICOCEAN
10°N
20°N
10°W 50°E 60°E0°
Arabic
Arabic
Arabic
Arabic
DinkaShilluk
BerberBerber
Baluchi
Arabic
Arabic
Arabic
Arabic
Persian
Lur
Kurdish
Greek
Greek
Lur
Arabic
Arabic
Turkish
Jewish
Azerbaijani
Bakhtiari
Persian
0
0 200 400 kilometers
200 400 miles
Berber
Iranian
Kurdish
Semitic
Turkic
Other
Ethnic groupArabic
N
GEOGRAPHY SKILLBUILDER: InterpretingMaps and Visuals1. Movement • What is the largest ethnic group in this
region?2. Region • What is the most common religion in this
region?
LARGEST COUNTRY (in land area):Sudan, with 966,757 sq. mi.
LARGEST ETHNIC GROUPWITHOUT A COUNTRY:The Kurds, with 20 million living in Iran,Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.
ORIGIN OF MAJOR RELIGIONS:Islam, Judaism, and Christianity alloriginated in this area.
LOWEST POPULATION DENSITY:Libya, with 7.5 people per sq. mi.
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Ethnic Groups of North Africa and Southwest Asia
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Birthrate (per 1,000 pop.)(2000 estimate)
CountryFlag
Country/Capital Currency Population (2001 estimate)
LifeExpectancy
(years)
AlgeriaAlgiers
BahrainManama
31,736,000
645,000
CyprusNicosia
EgyptCairo
IranTehran
IraqBaghdad
IsraelJerusalem
JordanAmman
KuwaitKuwait
LebanonBeirut
LibyaTripoli
MoroccoRabat
QatarDoha
Saudi ArabiaRiyadh
SudanKhartoum
763,000
69,537,000
66,129,000
23,332,000
5,938,000
5,453,000
2,042,000
3,628,000
5,241,000
30,645,000
2,622,000
769,000
22,757,000
36,080,000
70
73
77
63
70
67
79
77
76
71
75
69
72
72
68
57
23
21
13
25
18
35
19
26
22
20
28
23
38
16
38
39
Dinar
Dinar
Pound
Pound
Rial
Dinar
New Shekel
Dinar
Dinar
Pound
Dinar
Dirham
Rial Omani
Riyal
Riyal
Pound
OmanMuscat
Data F i le
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Infant Mortality (per 1,000 live births)
(2000)
Doctors(per 100,000 pop.)
(1992–1998)
Literacy Rate(percentage)(1995–2000)
Map (not to scale)
Passenger Cars(per 1,000 pop.)
(1996–1997)
Total Area (square miles)
42.2
14.0
7.4
65.7
28.1
62.4
7.6
32.1
9.8
29.4
26.4
37.0
23.9
16.4
36.3
69.2
85
100
255
202
85
55
385
166
189
210
128
46
133
126
166
9
62
85
97
51
79
58
96
87
79
92
76
44
59
79
63
46
17
242
316
20
26
32
224
40
318
325
126
39
108
151
89
1
919,595
268
3,572
385,230
636,300
167,975
7,992
34,342
6,880
3,950
678,400
274,461
82,009
4,416
865,000
966,757
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Birthrate (per 1,000 pop.)
(2000)
CountryFlag
Country/Capital Currency Population (2001 estimate)
LifeExpectancy
(years)
TunisiaTunis
TurkeyAnkara
9,705,000
66,494,000
United ArabEmiratesAbu Dhabi
YemenSanaa
2,407,000
18,078,000
74
71
74
60
17
19
18
43
Dinar
Lira
Dirham
Rial
Data F i le
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SyriaDamascus 16,729,000 68 31Pound
Queen Hatshepsut �
The BlueMosque inIstanbul �
The Dead Sea �
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Infant Mortality (per 1,000 live births)
(2000)
Doctors(per 100,000 pop.)
(1992–1998)
Literacy Rate(percentage)(1996–1998)
Map (not to scale)
Passenger Cars(per 1,000 pop.)
(1991–1998)
Total Area (square miles)
30.1
33.3
13.4
67.4
70
121
181
23
67
82
79
43
28
53
144
15
63,378
300,948
32,278
203,796
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GEOGRAPHY SKILLBUILDER: Interpreting a Chart1. Region • How much higher is Lebanon’s literacy rate
than Iran’s?2. Region • In general, how can a country’s literacy rate be
a predictor of its infant mortality rate in this region?
35.2 144 79 9 71,498
A shadoof in Egypt �
An oil well in Saudi Arabia �
Palestinians in Israel �
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