Asia Barat
Asia Barat, Barat Asia, Asia Barat Daya atau Barat Daya Asia adalah istilah yang memperincikan bahagian paling barat di benua Asia. Ia bersepadan dengan Timur Tengah - yang mana memperincikan kedudukan geografi dalam hubungan dengan Eropah Barat dan bukannya kedudukan di dalam Asia. Di sebabkan pemikiran Eurosentrisme, pertubuhan antarabangsa seperti Pertubuhan Bangsa Bersatu,[2] mengantikan Timur Tengah dan Timur Dekat dengan istilah Asia Barat. Kawasan ini dan benua Eropah secara kolektifnya dirujuk sebagai Eurasia Barat.
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Negara-negara di Asia Barat [sunting]
Negara dan jajahan di Asia Barat berdasarkan kepada Sub-kawasan PBB, disenaraikan seperti berikut:
Armenia
Azerbaijan (sebahagian di Eropah)
Bahrain
Cyprus
Georgia (sebahagian di Eropah)
Iraq
Israel
Jordan
Kuwait
Lubnan
Oman
wilayah Palestin
Qatar
Arab Saudi
Syria
Turki (sebahagian di Eropah)
Emiriah Arab Bersatu
Yaman
Meskipun tidak dimasukkan ke dalam sub-kawasan Asia Barat oleh PBB, Iran biasanya termasuk di dalam Asia Barat, dan kadang kala Afghanistan dan Mesir (yang mana memiliki beberapa wilayah di Asia) dimasukkan dalam definasi yang lebih luas bagi "Asia Barat". Diingatkan juga bahawa Afghanistan boleh dianggap Asia Tengah[3][4], Asia Selatan,[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] atau Asia Barat.[19]
Data wilayah dan kawasan [sunting]
Rujukan [sunting]
- ↑ National Geographic Style Manual
- ↑ United Nations Cartographic Section Web Site, United Nations Statistics Division
- ↑ The 2007 Middle East & Central Asia Politics, Economics,and Society Conference University of Utah.
- ↑ "Regional Economic Outlook: Middle East & Central Asia" May 2006, International Monetary Fund.
- ↑ CIA world factbook, Afghanistan - Geography (Location: Southern Asia)
- ↑ Center for South Asia Studies: University of California, Berkeley
- ↑ Center for South Asia Outreach UW-Madison
- ↑ Department of South Asia Studies: University of Pennsylvania
- ↑ South Asia: Data, Projects, and Research
- ↑ MAPS SHOWING GEOLOGY, OIL AND GAS FIELDS AND GEOLOGICAL PROVINCES OF SOUTH ASIA [1] Includes Afghanistan and Bhutan
- ↑ Afghanistan-Tajikistan Bridge Links Central, South Asia [2] Refers to Afghanistan as South Asian and Tajikistan as Central Asian
- ↑ University of Washington Jackson School of International Studies: The South Asia Center http://jsis.washington.edu/advise/catalog/soasia-b.html
- ↑ Syracruse University: The South Asia Center http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/moynihan/programs/sac/
- ↑ Center for South Asian Studies
- ↑ http://www.brandeis.edu/registrar/catalog/one-subject.php?subject_id=6550 this sources admits in certain contexts that Tibet and Afghanistan are South Asian
- ↑ Organization - Center for South Asian Studies - Oscar
- ↑ University of Hawaii at Manoa | South Asia Collection
- ↑ Rutgers, SAS South Asian Studies: - Home
- ↑ Ethnic Origin (247), Single and Multiple Ethnic Origin Responses (3) and Sex (3) for the Population of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2006 Census