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Geography and Population
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Country** |
Area KM2 |
Population* |
Percent
Arable10 |
Population
Density9 |
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Algeria |
2,380,000 |
32,930,091 |
3 |
13.3 |
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Bahrain |
660 |
698,585 |
2 |
977.8 |
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Egypt |
1,000,000 |
78,887,007 |
3 |
69.5 |
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Iran |
1,650,000 |
68,688,433 |
10 |
40.1 |
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Iraq |
434,000 |
26,783,383 |
12 |
53.8 |
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Israel |
20,700 |
7,026,0002 |
17 |
312.0 |
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Jordan |
98,000 |
5,153,378 |
4 |
52.6 |
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Kuwait |
17,800 |
2,418,3933 |
0 |
114.7 |
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Lebanon |
10,452 |
3,874,050 |
21 |
347.1 |
|
Libya |
1,760,000 |
5,900,754 |
2 |
3.0 |
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Morocco |
446,550 |
33,241,259 |
18 |
69.4 |
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Oman |
212,000 |
3,102,2294 |
2 |
12.4 |
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Palestine8 |
6,275 |
3,889,248* |
27 |
520.9 |
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Qatar |
11,437 |
885,359 |
1 |
67.25 |
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Saudi Arabia |
2,240,000 |
27,019,7315 |
1 |
10.2 |
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Sudan |
2,510,000 |
41,236,378 |
5 |
14.4 |
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Syria |
185,000 |
18,881,361 6 |
28 |
90.4 |
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Tunisia |
164,000 |
10,175,014 |
20 |
59.2 |
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Turkey |
780,000 |
70,413,958 |
30 |
85.2 |
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UAE |
78,000 |
2,602,713 7 |
0 |
30.9 |
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Yemen |
527,970 |
21,456,188 |
6 |
34.2 |
- includes 228,424 non-nationals
- 2006 Israel CBS estimates.5.64 M Jews; 1.39
M Arabs,
- includes 1,159,913 non-nationals
- includes 577,293 non-nationals.
- includes 5,360,526 non-nationals
- Not counting about 38,000 people living in the Israeli-occupied Golan
Heights - 18,200 Arabs (16,500 Druze and 1,700 Alawites) and about 20,000 Israeli settlers
- includes 1,576,472 non-nationals.
- "Palestine" for geographical purposes, includes all the area of the West
Bank and Gaza Strip, regardless of whether or not it is controlled by the Palestinian Authority or Israel. West
Bank population does not include Israeli settlers. Data for Palestinian population have been contested and may include
overestimates of births and counting of Arab population of Jerusalem, included in the Israeli population estimate
- Based on 2001 population figures (not
based on current population)
- "Arable" is a matter of definition. For example, about 12% of Iraq is considered arable,
and another 10% is defined as pastureland in some sources, while others give a total figure of about 25% Arable.
*Source: CIA World Book, Updated estimates of "July 2006" (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html)
, except for Israeli figures given by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics.
**Includes Middle Eastern countries and Arab countries of North Africa.
Data are believed to be reliable but are not guaranteed to be authoritative.
Please tell us about any errors. Different sources give widely varying population estimates for some countries. The
discrepancies are not explained. Updated May 2006. Population data are 2006 estimates.
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