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Middle East - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (1857 words) |
 | The Middle East is a historical and cultural subregion of Africa-Eurasia traditionally held to be countries or regions in Southwest Asia together with Egypt. |
| The corresponding adjective is Middle-Eastern and the derived noun is Middle-Easterner. |
| "Middle East-North Africa" (MENA), which is sometimes used to encompass the zone from Morocco to Iran, also occasionally called the Greater Middle East; sometimes this term is used to mean the entire area of Africa from the Sahara to the Mediterranean and Asia west of China and India and south of Russia. |
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| The Middle East is a subcontinent for the historical and cultural subregion of Africa-Eurasia traditionally held to be countries or regions in Southwest Asia, and parts of North Africa. |
| The Maghreb is sometimes included, sometimes excluded from the Middle East by the media and in informal usage, while most academics continue to identify North Africa as geographically a part of Africa, but being closely related to southwestern Asia in terms of politics, culture, religion, language, history, and genetics. |
| Some have criticized the term Middle East for its perceived Eurocentrism[7], because it was originally coined by Europeans and reflects the geographical position of the region from a European perspective. |
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