Flags of the Middle East

Great quiz! This is definitely a quiz that should be featured!

It is now. Congrats!

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There's too much time on the clock. You don't really need to know which flag belongs to which country, you just need to know all the countries in the middle east and type quickly.

^agreed, especially since there are barely 10 flags

That feeling when you pick out a flag for your country, then show up at the UN only to see that there are six other countries there wearing the same thing.

What? No! Their red is slightly darker than our red!

So you just slap Allahu Akbar on it.

Where's Afghanistan?

And so it begins. How long until Cyprus comes up? What about Egypt, or Turkey? What, really, is the Middle East? I imagine the inclusion of some countries (and the exclusion of others) will irritate quite a few people. And maybe even the lack of Palestine will get some people up in arms. Such is the way of the world.

What about Burma?

You mean Myanmar?

Isn't Egypt technically in Africa? Or does owning the Sinai make it in the Middle East as well?

So what if it's in Africa? The Middle East isn't a continent.

Generally the Middle East is the Arab countries in Asia + Egypt (because, while it's technically in Africa, it has much more in common with the Middle East than the rest of North Africa) + Iran, Turkey, and Israel. A little surprised by Cyprus and the lack of Iran, but no, Afghanistan is not in the Middle East.

Wikipedia knows what's up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East

Libya is farther away from the traditional core of the Middle East than either of those two.

Though placing Turkey in the "Middle" East does raise an interesting question about where the Near East is.

France.

I know there's about a 40% chance that you're joking, but, historically, Anatolia was called Asia Minor as well as the Near East. Japan, Korea, and China were the Far East. And then eventually "Middle East" was coined to refer to the area around Iran and Afghanistan.... though over time the concept most had of this socially constructed region would shift slowly westward until becoming anchored somewhere in the north of the Arabian peninsula.

Wikipedia tells me that Middle East replaced the word Near East in usage at some point. In German it's still called Near East, so no problems there with including Turkey.

camus: yes, after, like I said, the concept of where the Middle East was shifted from central Asia to the Arabian peninsula, and then Turkey and Egypt started getting roped in to it. The term Near East eventually faded from popular usage.

Turkey is a European, Asian, and (sometimes) Middle Eastern country all at the same time.

In the Middle East.

It’s really weird, I got all of them, with the flags of the middle east there’s a few where if you asked me to describe them I probably wouldn’t be able to but when I see them something just clicks and I know what they are. It’s kinda the same with the pan African ones