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Why didnt they register The Middle East (Isreal to India) as an official continent?

Instead they call The Middle East partly Asia and partly Europe? You cant make 1 area 3 areas?

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  • 8 years ago
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    Calling India a Middle Eastern country is pushing it a bit, and I'm not sure that Turkey count's as a Middle Eastern country. Middle East normally applies to those countries which have a coastline on the eastern (not northern) Mediterranean, Jordan, Iraq, and the countries on the Arabian peninsula. These countries are all in Asia. Egypt is often counted as a Middle East country, but relativelay speaking, it has about as much land in Asia as Turkey has in Europe, the rest being in Africa.

    The term Middle East tends to infer that the countries are inhabited mainly by Semites (Hebrews and Arabs).

    It is not a continent, it's just a rather small area of Asia.

    Please don't use EU as an abbreviation for Europe. Quite a number of European countries are not members of the European Union.

  • 8 years ago

    The middel east is not Europe but only Asia.

    The border is the Bosporus (The city Istanbul is situated on it.). To the East is Europe to the West Asia. So Turkey has a tiny bit of land in EU and the majority in Asia.

  • 8 years ago

    That area is all part of Asia. None of it is in Europe. The real question is why is Europe a continent at all - it's just part of Eurasia

  • 8 years ago

    Israel is no way near India.

  • 8 years ago

    DUH... The definition of continents is based upon land masses, not political affiliations. They tend to divide them based upon geological features such as oceans and rift valleys.

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