Middle East

"The Middle East is home to most of the world's oil, even if it's for Venezuela. It wasn't only a mythical place where there are genies and flying carpets, but also where oil is very rich in the desert sands as well."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Memoirs of a Crisis

The Middle East is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia, Turkey (both Asian and European), and Egypt (which is mostly in North Africa). The corresponding adjective is Middle Eastern and the derived noun is Middle Easterner. The term has come into wider usage as a replacement of the term Near East (as opposed to the Far East) beginning in the early 20th century.