Middle East Map Quiz

1. Damascus is located in the western part of which country that borders both Turkey and Jordan?

2. Which country occupies much of the central Arabian Peninsula and has Riyadh as its capital?

3. Which pair names the two main Palestinian territories shown separately on many regional maps?

4. A location clue mentions Baghdad and the Tigris River. Which country should you select?

5. A flight lands in Doha on a peninsula projecting into the Persian Gulf. Which country have you reached?

6. Which country sits at the northwestern end of the Persian Gulf and shares land borders with both Iraq and Saudi Arabia?

7. If you travel south along the eastern Mediterranean coast from Syria, which sovereign country do you enter first?

8. Which country lies directly east of Iraq and extends northward to the southern coast of the Caspian Sea?

9. A traveler is in a country whose capital is Amman and whose short southern coastline reaches the Gulf of Aqaba. Which country is it?

10. Which country has an eastern Mediterranean coastline and borders Lebanon to the north, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the southwest?

11. A map clue points to the southeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, where a country borders both Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Which country is it?

12. Starting in Saudi Arabia and traveling south toward the Bab el-Mandeb strait, you enter which country in the southwestern Arabian Peninsula?

13. Which country occupies most of Anatolia and also extends into southeastern Europe?

14. Which country includes the Sinai Peninsula and therefore has coastlines on both the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea?

15. Abu Dhabi is the capital of which federation on the southeastern coast of the Persian Gulf?

16. You travel from Saudi Arabia across the King Fahd Causeway to an island country in the Persian Gulf. Where do you arrive?