Geography of the Arab League
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| Continent | Asia and Africa |
| Area | Ranked 2nd |
| • Total | 13,333,296 km2 (5,148,014 sq mi) |
| Highest point | Jbel Toubkal 4,165 m[1] |
| Lowest point | Lac Assal −155 m[2] |
| Longest river | Nile 6,853 km |
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The Arab League is a regional organization of Arab states in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa and the Indian Ocean. It covers a combined area of 13 million km². The League extends from Morocco in the west, southward to the Comoros, eastward to Somalia, and northward to Iraq.
Geography of each state[edit]
The Arab League has 22 member states. See the geography of each state:
Regions[edit]
The Arab League has a high population density, with an estimated 350 million inhabitants. Geographical terrains in the area can be divided into three: the large arid desert covering most of it, the fertile south and north, and finally the high mountains of the Atlas, Ahaggar, Zagros and the Anti-Lebanon mountains, along with the Hijaz Mountain range.
The Arab League can also be divided into two main geographical regions: an Asian part, which has 12 states, and a larger African part, which has 10 states. Adjacent to the League are 14 land neighbors and 4 sea neighbors.
Culturally, the Arab states can be divided into 6 regions:
- The Maghreb, which includes Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya.
- The Mashriq, which includes Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Jordan.
- The Nile Valley, which includes the Fertile lands of Egypt and Sudan.
- The Persian Gulf, which includes the oil rich states of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq.
- The Bab-el-Mandeb, which includes Yemen, Somalia and Djibouti.
- The Indian Ocean, which includes the Comoros.
Geographically, the Arab League member states are further subdivided into four regions:
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Landscape[edit]
Most of the Arab League falls in the driest region of the world. Almost 80% of the Arab world is covered in desert, stretching from Mauritania and Morocco to Oman and the UAE. The second most common terrain is the semi-arid terrain, which found in all Arab countries except Lebanon and Comoros.
Several deserts span the Arab League:
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The highest point in the Arab League is in Morocco called Jbel Toubkal, standing 4,165m tall, making it the 40th highest place on earth, and 6th in Africa,[1] next comes Jabal an Nabi Shu'ayb (at 3,666 m)[1] in Yemen and Cheekha Dar (at 3,611 m)[3] in Iraq.
The lowest point in the Arab League is the Dead sea in Jordan. At 1,312 feet (400 meters) below sea level it is also the lowest point on Earth.[4]
Climate[edit]
The hottest temperature recorded in the Arab League took place in Sudan on June 25, 2010, reaching 49.6°C (121.3°F) in Dongola, breaking a record set in 1987.[5]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Africa Ultra-Prominences" Peaklist.org. Retrieved 2012-01-14. Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "peaklist" defined multiple times with different content (see ) (see the ). - ^ Warren, John K. (23 February 2006). Evaporites: sediments, resources and hydrocarbons. Birkhäuser. p. 280. ISBN 978-3-540-26011-0. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
- ^ "Cheekha Dar, Iraq/Iran" Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2012-09-06.
- ^ About: What is the lowest point in the world?
- ^ Masters, Jeff. "NOAA: June 2010 the globe's 4th consecutive warmest month on record". Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog. Weather Underground.
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