Maps Of Middle East

The maps of  Middle East locates it in the south western region of Asia and also encompasses the African country of Egypt. Some scholars begin locating Middle East on the map from Pakistan westwards to Egypt. Some people also see it as the Near East as compared to that of the Far East.

This place is the birth place of three major religion of the world like Christianity, Judaism and Islam. The climate of the Middle East is generally hot and arid. The term Middle East originated in the British India Office in the nineteenth century.

There are around sixteen countries in the Middle East and it holds around three percent of the world’s population. The Middle East economies most thriving factor is its oil business and the countries with oil reserves are some of the world’s richest nations, however there are poor nation in the Middle East like Yemen.

Other items of commerce from this region also include textile, leather, cotton and agricultural products. Islam is the biggest religion in the Middle East.
Tourism in the Middle East is fairly underdeveloped and the region is in modern times been a place of economic, social and cultural turmoil. If you were to travel with a map you would be crossing arid region right from its eastern corner to its western ones leaving the river valleys out.