1. World Regional Geography Northern Africa & Southwest Asia C.J. Cox Instructor Week #5 & 6

2. Northern Africa & Southwest Asia • Ten Geographic Qualities • Physical Geography • Cultural Geography • Regions & States • Conflicts

3. Ten Geographic Qualities • 1. World’s great ancient culture hearth • 2. Source region or hearth for several religions

4. Ten Geographic Qualities • 3. Islam Predominates • 4. Arab World • (semitic) • 5. Population is clustered around water

5. Ten Geographic Qualities • 6. Desert Environment predominates • 7. Central Pivotal Area between 3 continents • 8. Volatile area with conflicts - disputes & boundary frictions

6. Ten Geographic Qualities • 9. Center of superpower chess game • 10. Petroleum - a key economic resource

7. Relative Location of Northern Africa & Southwest Asia • Centrally located between Europe, Asia & Africa • Between the Atlantic/Indian and Mediterranean

8. Northern Africa & Southwest Asia • Ten Geographic Qualities • Physical Geography • Cultural Geography • Historical Geography • Regions & States

9. Physical Geography of Northern Africa & Southwest Asia • Plate Tectonics • Plateaus • Deserts • Mountains • Rivers • Lakes • Climates

10. Physical Geography • Plate Tectonics • Clashing Plates • Arabian Plate into Eurasian Plate • Separating Plates • Arabian Plate pulling apart from African Plate • Red Sea

11. Physical Geography • Plateaus - Anatolian Highland • Penninsulas - Saudi Arabian, Suez

12. Physical Geography of Northern Africa & Southwest Asia • Deserts • The Sahara Desert - • The Saudi Arabian Desert • The Libyan Desert • Negev Desert

13. Physical Geography of Northern Africa & Southwest Asia • Mountains • Atlas Mountains • Thorus Mts (Turkey) • Elburz & Zagros Mts. (Iran) • Golan Heights (Israel)

14. Physical Geography of Northern Africa & Southwest Asia • Rivers & Sea • The Nile River • The Tigris & Euphrates Rivers • The Jordan River • The Red Sea • Gulfs - • Persian Gulf, • Gulf of Suez, • Gulf of Aqaba

17. Physical Geography of Northern Africa & Southwest Asia • Lakes • Dead Sea • Sea of Galilee

18. Physical Geography of Northern Africa & Southwest Asia • Climates • Desert Climates with less than 10” of rain • under high pressure latitude belt and NE trade winds • med. zones on Northern Africa coast & eastern coasts of Mediterrean

19. Climates of Northern Africa & Southwest Asia

20. Vegetation Map

21. Northern Africa & Southwest Asia • Ten Geographic Qualities • Physical Geography • Cultural Geography • Regions & States

22. Cultural Geography of Northern Africa & Southwest Asia • Population • Languages • Religion • Agriculture • Economics/ • Urban

23. Cultural Geography of Northern Africa & Southwest Asia • Population • 300 million • concentrations along the Nile, Euphrates & Tigris & Coasts • low overall population due to desert climate • very high growth rates in Gaza

24. Population Concentrations

25. Northern Africa • Population Characteristics • Birth rates 29/1000 • Death rates 8/1000 • Natural Increase 2.2/1000 • Infant Mortality 59/1000 • Doubling Time 32 yrs • Pop <15 39% • Pop > 65 4 %

26. Southwest Asia • Population Characteristics • Birth rates 28/1000 • Death rates 7/1000 • Natural Increase 2.2/1000 • Infant Mortality 54/1000 • Doubling Time 32 yrs • Pop <15 37 % • Pop > 65 5 %

27. Dying Under 40 years

28. Cultural Geography of Northern Africa & Southwest Asia • Languages • Unified by Arabic Language - An Afro-Asiatic Language • Hebrew spoken in Israel • Tribal languages spoken in remote areas of North Africa

29. Religions

30. Cultural Geography of Northern Africa & Southwest Asia • Religion • Islam - one of the world’s great religions • Religious landscapes of mosques, minarets, distinctive non-revealing clothing • Moslem - a follower of Islam

31. Cultural Geography of Northern Africa & Southwest Asia • Religion • Islamic Divisions • Sunni Islam • Shite Islam (Iran)

32. Cultural Geography of Northern Africa & Southwest Asia • Agriculture • commercial farming in Israel • Meditterean climate yielding citrus, avacados & ranching • Nomadic Herding dominates the region • Bedouins • Desertification

33. Agriculture

34. Atlas Mts.

35. Israeli Kibutz

36. Tunisia

37. Cultural Geography of Northern Africa & Southwest Asia • Economy • oil dominated industry

38. Income levels

39. SW Asia Urban Landscape

40. Baghdad

41. Nile River Valley - Urban Landscape

42. Ataturk Dam on Euphrates River

43. Northern Africa Southwest Asia • Ten Geographic Qualities • Physical Geography • Cultural Geography • Historical Geography • Regions & States • Conflicts

44. Historical Geography • Pre European Prelude • Colonial Transformation • First World Dependence on oil

45. Northern Africa & Southwest Asia • Ten Geographic Qualities • Physical Geography • Cultural Geography • Historical Geography • Regions & States • Conflicts

46. Regions of Northern Africa & Southwest Asia • Egypt & the Nile River Basin • Maghreb • Arabian Peninsula • Middle East • The North

47. Egypt & the Nile Basin Egypt & Sudan

48. The Maghreb • Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Western Sahara

49. The Arabian Peninsula

50. The Middle East