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Originally posted by GodKing
I was using western asia to mean from about Poland to somewhere around mongolia. I felt the need to try and seperate due to the massive size, different cultures (ya, I know...), and all that stuff. It is real arbitrary, and I know many people in Moscow that consider themselves europeans - that's fine by me.
Middle east is that area say from turkey, to the isreal / egypt area - then going west to include out to afganistan adn packistan, then I decided that India might be kinda left out so this seamed teh best place to add it.
East asia - japan, china, korea, vietnam, etc.
As I said, I was fairly vague in some of these, as I was more or less trying to get a feal. No offence to anyone.
I was using western asia to mean from about Poland to somewhere around mongolia. I felt the need to try and seperate due to the massive size, different cultures (ya, I know...), and all that stuff. It is real arbitrary, and I know many people in Moscow that consider themselves europeans - that's fine by me.
Middle east is that area say from turkey, to the isreal / egypt area - then going west to include out to afganistan adn packistan, then I decided that India might be kinda left out so this seamed teh best place to add it.
East asia - japan, china, korea, vietnam, etc.
As I said, I was fairly vague in some of these, as I was more or less trying to get a feal. No offence to anyone.
Wow! I really never dreamed of that before...
Well, it's all a matter of definitions, I guess.
When I went to school back in the 80's, we learned that the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea are the natural boundaries between Europe and Asia. Turkey is actually considered part of Europe (unless you - as some do - consider the Black Sea and the Bosporus Straits to be the boundary), while Egypt is part of Africa. What we call the Middle East is the area between them, including Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan.
Once you get into Saudi Arabia or Iraq, you're in the Persian Gulf area, which - although near the Middle East - is not part of it.
The Gulf area includes Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Iran, Iraq and the small Gulf states of Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
-At least these are the definitions I learned...
. So the desire of Turkey to join the European Union is at least as ridiculous as Israel playing football (geez, or soccer for you yanks 
, we could always repoll , .....
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