Southwest Asia

Southwest Asia or Western Asia is the part of Asia that includes the Middle East.

Territories

Southwest Asia is in most uses meant to include:

• Armenia
• Bahrain
• Cyprus
• Sinai (eastern Egypt)
• Gaza Strip
• Iraq
• Turkey
• Iran
• Israel
• Jordan
• Kuwait
• Lebanon
• Oman
• Qatar
• Saudi Arabia
• Syria
• United Arab Emirates
• West Bank
• Yemen
• The Asian portions of
  • Azerbaijan
  • Georgia
  • Turkey (Asia Minor or Anatolia)

In addition, it is sometimes widened to include:

• Afghanistan
• Pakistan
• Jammu and Kashmir (India)
• The African portion of Egypt
• The European portions of
  • Azerbaijan
  • Georgia
  • Turkey (Eastern Thrace or Rumelia)
• Adjacent parts of Central Asia (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan)