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The Middle East — a geopolitical region comprising West Asia without the South Caucasus and including all of Egypt in Northeast Africa (not just the Sinai Peninsula).

The Middle Eastern political region includes countries of the Near East: the Arabian Peninsula, the Iranian Plateau, the Levant, Asia Minor/Anatolian Peninsula, Mesopotamia, the island of Cyprus, Turkey and Egypt.

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