What do you mean by Central Asia and the Middle East?

Difference between Central Asia and the Middle East:

I. Geographic location is different

Central Asia, that is, Central Asia, geographically refers to a vast area from the Caspian Sea in the west, east to China, south to Afghanistan, and north to Russia.

The Middle East is a geographic region, and West Asia roughly overlap, and contains part of North Africa, but does not contain the Transcaucasus region, but also Africa and Eurasia's subregion.

Two, containing different countries

Central Asia contains Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan five countries.

The Middle East in general includes 23 countries such as Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, UAE and Yemen.

Three, the natural environment is different

Central Asia is deep inland, most of the region is unusually dry, it is difficult to grow crops, most of the residents of Central Asia to grazing for a living, the industry is concentrated in the region's cities. The climate is mainly temperate continental.

The Middle East is located in the land of three continents and five seas, the Middle East climate is dry, mainly tropical desert climate, Mediterranean climate, temperate continental climate. Most of the region is located between 20 ° and 30 ° north latitude, the Tropic of Cancer from the center through the hot temperatures. It is also in the subtropical high pressure and the control of the northeast trade winds from the arid regions of inland Asia, so the drought and less rain.

Four, different economic levels

Central Asia are developing countries, countries with low levels of economic development.

Most of the economic development of the Middle East countries since ancient times have relied on traditional agriculture and animal husbandry. Since the discovery of oil in the region, the rise of the oil industry has led to drastic changes in the economies of these oil-producing regions, and the standard of living is no different from that of developed countries.