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Syria , officially known as the Syrian Arab ___MASK91___ (""), is a country in Western Asia , bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean ___MASK53___ to the west , Turkey to the north , Iraq to the east , Jordan to the south , and Israel to the southwest . Syria ' s capital and largest city is Damascus . The Kingdom of Egypt ("", " the Egyptian Kingdom ") was the independent Egyptian ___MASK62___ established under the Muhammad Ali ___MASK15___ in 1922 following the Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence by the United Kingdom . Until the Anglo - Egyptian treaty of 1936 , the Kingdom was only nominally independent , since the British retained control of foreign relations , communications , the ___MASK11___ and the Anglo - Egyptian Sudan . Between 1936 - 52 , the British continued to maintain ___MASK11___ presence and political advisors , at a reduced level . Iraq (, or ; '; '), officially known as the ___MASK91___ of Iraq ('; ') is a country in Western Asia , bordered by ___MASK51___ to the north , Iran to the east , Kuwait to the southeast , Saudi Arabia to the south , Jordan to the southwest , and Syria to the west . The capital , and largest city , is Baghdad . The main ethnic groups are Arabs and Kurds ; others include Assyrians , Turkmen , Shabakis , Yazidis , Armenians , Mandeans , Circassians , and Kawliya . Around 95 % of the country ' s 36 million citizens are Muslims , with Christianity , Yarsan , Yezidism , and Mandeanism also present . The official languages of Iraq are Arabic and ___MASK25___ . Saudi Arabia , officially known as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( KSA ), is an Arab ___MASK16___ in Western Asia constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula . With a land area of approximately , Saudi Arabia is geographically the fifth - largest state in Asia and second - largest state in the Arab world after Algeria . Saudi Arabia is bordered by Jordan and Iraq to the north , Kuwait to the northeast , Qatar , Bahrain , and the United Arab Emirates to the east , Oman to the southeast , and Yemen to the south . It is separated from Israel and Egypt by the Gulf of Aqaba . It is the only nation with both a Red ___MASK53___ coast and a Persian Gulf coast , and most of its terrain consists of arid desert or barren landforms . The araB ___MASK57___ promoter is a bacterial promoter , activated by e L - arabinose binding . North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost ___MASK98___ of Africa . The United Nations ___MASK95___ of " North Africa " includes ___MASK39___ countries and territories ; Algeria , Egypt , Libya , Mauritania , Morocco , Sudan , Tunisia , and Western Sahara . The countries of Algeria , Morocco , Tunisia , and Libya are often collectively referred to as the Maghreb , which is the Arabic word for " sunset ". Egypt lies to the northeast and encompasses part of West Asia , while Sudan is situated on the edge of the Sahel , to the south of Egypt . Jordan ('), officially The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan ('), is an Arab kingdom in Western Asia , on the East ___MASK97___ of the Jordan ___MASK26___ . Jordan is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the east and south , Iraq to the north - east , Syria to the north , Israel , Palestine and the Dead Sea to the west and the Red Sea in its extreme south - west . Jordan is strategically located at the crossroads of Asia , Africa and Europe . The capital , Amman , is Jordan ' s most populous city as well as the country ' s economic , political and cultural centre . Africa is the world ' s second - largest and second - most - populous ___MASK2___ . At about 30 . 3 million km² ( 11 . 7 million square miles ) including adjacent islands , it covers 6 % of Earth ' s total surface area and 20 . 4 % of its total land area . With 1 . 1 billion people as of 2013 , it accounts for about 15 % of the world ' s human population . The ___MASK2___ is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north , both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast , the Indian Ocean to the southeast , and the Atlantic Ocean to the west . The ___MASK2___ includes Madagascar and various archipelagos . It contains 54 fully recognized sovereign states ( countries ), nine territories and two " de facto " independent states with limited or no recognition . The Arab ___MASK7___ ('), formally the ___MASK7___ of Arab States ('), is a regional ___MASK48___ of Arab countries in and around North Africa , the Horn of Africa and Arabia . It was formed in Cairo on 22 March 1945 with ___MASK73___ members : Kingdom of Egypt , Kingdom of Iraq , Transjordan ( renamed Jordan in 1949 ), Lebanon , Saudi Arabia , and Syria . Yemen joined as a ___MASK68___ on 5 May 1945 . Currently , the ___MASK7___ has 22 members , but Syria ' s participation has been suspended since November 2011 , as a consequence of ___MASK87___ repression during the Syrian Civil War . Lebanon , officially known as the Lebanese ___MASK91___ , is a sovereign state in Western Asia . It is bordered by Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south , while Cyprus is west across the Mediterranean ___MASK53___ . Lebanon ' s location at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian hinterland facilitated its rich history and shaped a cultural identity of religious and ethnic diversity . At just 10 , 452 km ( 4 , 036 sq . mi .), it is the smallest recognized country on the entire mainland Asian ___MASK2___ . ___MASK13___ ('), officially known as the ___MASK91___ of ___MASK13___ ('), is an Arab country in Western Asia , occupying South Arabia , the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula . ___MASK13___ is the second - largest country in the peninsula , occupying 527 , 970 km ( 203 , 850 sq mi ). The coastline stretches for about 2 , 000 km ( ___MASK22___ , 200 mi ). It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north , the Red ___MASK53___ to the west , the Gulf of Aden and Arabian ___MASK53___ to the south , and Oman to the east - northeast . Although ___MASK13___ ' s constitutionally stated capital is the city of Sana ' a , the city has been under rebel control since February 2015 . Because of this , ___MASK13___ ' s capital has been temporarily relocated to the port city of Aden , on the southern coast . ___MASK13___ ' s territory includes more than 200 islands ; the largest of these is Socotra . Egypt (; ', , " Kimi "), officially the Arab ___MASK91___ of Egypt , is a ___MASK100___ spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula . Egypt is a Mediterranean country bordered by the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast , the Gulf of Aqaba to the east , the Red Sea to the east and south , Sudan to the south , and Libya to the west . Across the Gulf of Aqaba lies Jordan , and across from the Sinai Peninsula lies Saudi Arabia , although Jordan and Saudi Arabia do not share a land border with Egypt . It is the world ' s only contiguous Afrasian nation . The Horn of Africa (, " yäafrika qänd ", " al - qarn al -' afrq ") ( shortened to HOA ) is a ___MASK79___ in Northeast Africa . It juts hundreds of kilometers into the Arabian ___MASK53___ and lies along the southern side of the Gulf of Aden . The area is the easternmost projection of the African ___MASK2___ . The Horn of Africa denotes the region containing the countries of Djibouti , Eritrea , Ethiopia , and Somalia . Cairo (; ', ') is the ___MASK27___ and largest city of Egypt . The city ' s metropolitan area is the largest in the Middle East and the Arab world , and 15th - largest in the world , and is associated with ancient Egypt , as the famous Giza pyramid complex and the ancient city of Memphis are located in its geographical area . Located near the Nile Delta , modern Cairo was founded in 969 CE by Jawhar al - Siqilli (" the Sicilian ") of the Fatimid dynasty , but the land composing the present - ___MASK31___ city was the site of ancient national capitals whose remnants remain visible in parts of Old Cairo . Cairo has long been a center of the region ' s political and cultural life , and is nicknamed " the city of a thousand minarets " for its preponderance of Islamic architecture . Regional organizations ( ROs ) are , in a ___MASK83___ , international organizations ( IOs ), as they incorporate international membership and encompass geopolitical entities that operationally transcend a ___MASK34___ nation state . However , their membership is characterized by boundaries and demarcations characteristic to a defined and unique geography , such as continents , or geopolitics , such as economic blocs . They have been established to foster cooperation and political and economic integration or dialogue among states or entities within a restrictive geographical or geopolitical boundary . They both reflect common patterns of development and history that have been fostered since the end of World War II as well as the fragmentation inherent in globalization . Most ROs tend to work alongside well - established multilateral organizations such as the United Nations . While in many instances a regional ___MASK48___ is simply referred to as an international ___MASK48___ , in many others it makes ___MASK83___ to use the term " regional ___MASK48___ " to stress the more limited scope of a particular membership . Union of Arab Football Associations ( Arabic :      ; French : Union des associations de football arabe ) , officially abbreviated as UAFA , is the governing body of football in the Arab ___MASK7___ .