The Middle East and North Africa region runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean and from Turkey to Yemen. View As: One Page SlidesWater and Religion Rule the Area Much of the Middle East is not lived in. Most of the people in the Middle East live in the region’s north rim that runs from Iran through Iraq to Syria and into Turkey. Anatolia only became part of the Middle East due to Ottoman conquest in the early 1500s. Turkic peoples who converted to Islam held the areas north and northeast of the Middle East.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 15, 2017 11:03 UTC