{i} region extending from the southeastern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea (including countries in southwest Asia and northeast Africa)
The Middle East is the area around the eastern Mediterranean that includes Iran and all the countries in Asia to the west and south-west of Iran. The two great rivers of the Middle East rise in the mountains of Turkey. the area that includes Iran and Egypt and the countries which are between them Far East Eastern. or Mideast or Near East Geographic region where Europe, Africa, and Asia meet. It is an unofficial and imprecise term that now generally encompasses the lands around the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea notably Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, and Syria as well as Iran, Iraq, and the countries of the Arabian Peninsula. Afghanistan, Libya, Turkey, and The Sudan are sometimes also included. The term was formerly used by Western geographers and historians to describe the region from the Persian Gulf to Southeast Asia; Near East is sometimes used to describe the same area