West Asia Map Quiz

1. Traveling east from Syria, you enter a country that lies between Syria and Iran and has a short coastline on the Persian Gulf. Which country is it?

2. Which small country sits at the northwestern end of the Persian Gulf, between Iraq and Saudi Arabia?

3. Which country occupies a peninsula that projects northward into the Persian Gulf from the eastern side of the Arabian Peninsula?

4. Which country is at the southwestern end of the Arabian Peninsula, with the Red Sea to its west and the Gulf of Aden to its south?

5. Which island kingdom lies in the Persian Gulf off Saudi Arabia’s eastern coast and is connected to Saudi Arabia by a causeway?

6. Which country has a Mediterranean coast, borders Lebanon to the north and Jordan to the east, and includes the Negev desert in its south?

7. Which island country lies in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, south of Turkey and west of Syria?

8. Which country occupies the southeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula and has coastlines on the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea?

9. A country has a Mediterranean coast and lies directly south of Turkey, west of Iraq, and north of Jordan. Which country is it?

10. Which country occupies most of the Anatolian Peninsula, with the Black Sea to its north and the Mediterranean Sea to its south?

11. Which country occupies much of the central Arabian Peninsula, with coastlines on both the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf?

12. Which country lies east of Israel and the West Bank, south of Syria, and has a short coastline on the Gulf of Aqaba?

13. Which narrow Mediterranean country is located west of Syria and immediately north of Israel?

14. Which West Asian location consists geographically of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip?

15. Which federation lies on the southern shore of the Persian Gulf, between Saudi Arabia and Oman?

16. Which country lies south of the Caspian Sea, north of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, and east of Iraq?