- Geography of the Arab League
The
Arab League is a political organization developing into a more economic one, it has an Area of 14 million km², making it only Second after the Russian Federation, if ranked.Landscape
The highest point in the Arab League is in
Morocco calledJbel Toubkal , standing 4,165 m tall, making it the 40th highest place on earth, and 6th inAfrica , next comesJabal an Nabi Shu'ayb inYemen andCheekha Dar inIraq .While the lowest point in the Arab League is theDead sea , it is also the lowest on Earth in Jordan.Regions
Geographical terrains in the Arab League can be divided into three, the Huge Arid Desert covering most of it, the fertile South and North and finally the High Mountains of
Atlas ,Ahaggar ,Zagros and Lebanon, along with the Hijaz Mountain range.The AL can also be divided into two main geographical regions, the Asian part, which has 12 states and the Africa part which is the larger part and has 10 states. neighboring the League are 13 land neighbors and 4 sea neighbors.
Senegal ,Mali ,Niger ,Chad ,Central Africa , DR. Congo,Uganda ,Kenya ,Ethiopia ,Eritrea ,Israel ,Turkey andIran are all land neighbors.whileSpain ,Malta ,Italy ,Cyprus andMadagascar are all Sea neighbors.Culturally the Arab States can be divided into 5 regions.
*TheMaghreb , which includes Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya.
*TheMashriq , which includes Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Jordan
*TheNile Valley , which includes the Fertile lands of Egypt and Sudan.
*The Gulf, which includes the oil rich states of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq.
*TheBab-el-Mandeb , which includes Yemen, Somalia, Djibouti, and Comoros.Based on the
UN regional Geographical divisions of the world, the Arab League Members are divided in three regions.*
West Asia
**Bahrain
**Iraq
**Jordan
**Kuwait
**Lebanon
**Oman
**Palestine
**Qatar
**Saudi Arabia
**Syria
**UAE
**Yemen
*Northern Africa
**Algeria
**Egypt
**Libya
**Morocco
**Sudan
**Tunisia
*Western Africa
**Mauritania
*Eastern Africa
**Comoros
**Djibouti
**SomaliaClimate
Most of the Arab League falls in the Driest region of the world, with almost 80% of the Arab world is covered with
Deserts , stretching from Mauritania and Morocco, all the way to Oman and UAE, the second mostly spread Terrain is theSemiarid Dry Terrain, also found in all Arab countries except Lebanon and Comoros, ModerateMediterranean climate has the Highest Population density in the Arab World, with most of its 350 million citizen living within this region.Only two Terrains do not span the Arab League, the
Tropical wet and Dry climate in Southern Sudan and Southern Somalia, and theTropical wet Climate in Comoros Islands.Several Deserts Span the Arab League:
*Ad-Dahna Desert
*Arabian Desert
*Bayuda Desert
*Eastern Desert
*Danakil Desert
*Libyan Desert
*Naqab Desert
*Nefud Desert
*Nubian Desert
*Rub' al Khali Desert
*the GreatSahara Desert
*Syrian Desert
*Tihamah Desert
*White Desert Geography of each states
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