Aielyn on 20 July 2012
| Kasz216 said: No, but Afghanistan is in the middle east region politically. |
No, it's not. It's in the arabic region, but not the middle east.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East
Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, UAE, and Yemen. Those are the countries of the middle east.
There is sometimes reference to "the Greater Middle East", which does include Afghanistan, but that is not the same thing as the middle east, even "politically".
Pakistan and Afghanistan are both solidly in Asia, whereas the Middle East is in the borderline region between Europe and Asia (and Africa).
