CCD   Geography 105 - World Regional Geography


Locations Handout  Chapter 8 North Africa and Southwest Asia

For the map quiz on the main Islamic realm, on an outline map of North Africa, supplemented with maps from Russia and Asia, you should be able to locate:

A. Regions: 

Afghanistan Egypt Israel Morocco Sudan Yemen 
Algeria Eritrea Jordan Oman Syria
Bahrain Ethiopia Kuwait Qatar Tunisia
Cyprus Iran Lebanon Saudi Arabia Turkey
Djibouti Iraq Libya Somalia United Arab Emirates
 

B. Urban Regions  On a map, showing cities as dots, you should be able to locate:

Damascus, Syria Makkah, Saudi Arabia Tel Aviv, Israel Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Algiers, Algeria Baghdad, Iraq Istanbul, Turkey Samarquand, Uzbekistan
Al Madinah, Saudi Arabia Babylon (ruins) Jerusalem, Israel Tehran, Iran
Almaty, Kazakhstan Cairo, Egypt Kabul, Afghanistan
Asmara, Eritrea Casablanca, Morocco Khartoum, Sudan

C. Physiographic Regions, Mountains, Basins and Plateaus: 

Atlas Mountains Zagros Mountains Sahel Cyprus
Hindu Kush Mountains Baluchistan Rub al Khali (desert) West Bank
Ethiopian Highlands Caspian Depression Sinai Peninsula Gaza
Maghreb Sahara Desert Khyber Pass Golan Heights

D. Capes, Bays, Gulfs, Lakes, Oceans, and Seas: 

Aral Sea Black Sea Lake Nasser Gulf of Oman
Gulf of Aden Bosporus Straits Lake Van (Van Gölü) Persian Gulf
Sea of Azov Caspian Sea Mediterranean Sea Red Sea
Suez Canal Gulf of Aqaba

E. Rivers, Straits, and Waterways: (for rivers, be able to locate their mouths and know which way they flow).

Nile, Tigris, Euphrates, White Nile, Blue Nile, Syr Darya, Amu Darya