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Middle East Map Quiz with Bodies of Water

Tap the sea, gulf, river, desert or mountain range each question names, one round at a time.

Middle East Map Quiz with Bodies of Water

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Write the name of each numbered feature.Answer key

  1. Mediterranean Sea
  2. Red Sea
  3. Persian Gulf
  4. Black Sea
  5. Caspian Sea
  6. Arabian Sea
  7. Nile River
  8. Tigris River
  9. Euphrates River
  10. Gulf of Aden
  11. Gulf of Oman
  12. Suez Canal
  13. Arabian Peninsula
  14. Anatolia
  15. Mesopotamia
  16. Zagros Mountains
  17. Caucasus Mountains
  18. Syrian Desert
  19. Nile Delta
  20. Dead Sea
  21. Jordan River
  22. Sea of Galilee
  23. Cyprus
  24. Gulf of Suez
  25. Gulf of Aqaba
  26. Negev
  27. Western Desert
  28. Eastern Desert
  29. Nubian Desert
  30. Lake Nasser
  31. Taurus Mountains
  32. Pontic Mountains
  33. Aegean Sea
  34. Sea of Marmara
  35. Lake Van
  36. Alborz Mountains
  37. Dasht-e Kavir
  38. Dasht-e Lut
  39. Lake Urmia
  40. Shatt al-Arab
  41. Rub' al Khali
  42. Nafud Desert
  43. Hejaz Mountains
  44. Asir Mountains
  45. Hadhramaut
  46. Al Hajar Mountains
  47. Bab-el-Mandeb

Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2. Licence: public domain.

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The big bodies of water 12

  1. Mediterranean Sea Almost enclosed by land; the Levant is its eastern shore.
  2. Red Sea An Indian Ocean inlet between Arabia and Africa.
  3. Persian Gulf Between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula; also called the Arabian Gulf.
  4. Black Sea A sea between Europe and Asia, north of Anatolia.
  5. Caspian Sea An inland sea with no outlet, north of Iran.
  6. Arabian Sea A northern Indian Ocean sea, east of Arabia.
  7. Nile River A north-flowing river that empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
  8. Tigris River The eastern of the two rivers of Mesopotamia.
  9. Euphrates River West Asia's longest river, rising in Turkey.
  10. Gulf of Aden It joins the Red Sea to the Arabian Sea.
  11. Gulf of Oman It links the Arabian Sea with the Strait of Hormuz.
  12. Suez Canal A sea-level waterway from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea.

The big landforms 7

  1. Arabian Peninsula A peninsula of West Asia, with nine countries on it.
  2. Anatolia A peninsula that makes up most of Turkey; also Asia Minor.
  3. Mesopotamia The land between the Tigris and the Euphrates, mostly in Iraq.
  4. Zagros Mountains A range across Iran, north Iraq and southeast Turkey.
  5. Caucasus Mountains The range that holds Mount Elbrus.
  6. Syrian Desert Desert and steppe across Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
  7. Nile Delta Where the Nile fans out and empties into the Mediterranean.

Egypt and the Levant 11

  1. Dead Sea A salt lake whose shores are the lowest land on Earth.
  2. Jordan River It flows south through the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea.
  3. Sea of Galilee Earth's lowest freshwater lake.
  4. Cyprus The Mediterranean Sea's third-largest island.
  5. Gulf of Suez At the Red Sea's northern end, west of Sinai.
  6. Gulf of Aqaba Between the Sinai Peninsula and the Arabian Peninsula.
  7. Negev Desert and semidesert land in southern Israel.
  8. Western Desert The part of the Sahara west of the Nile in Egypt.
  9. Eastern Desert The part of the Sahara between the Nile and the Red Sea.
  10. Nubian Desert Eastern Sahara in Sudan, between the Nile and the Red Sea.
  11. Lake Nasser A reservoir made by the Aswan High Dam.

Anatolia and the Caucasus 5

  1. Taurus Mountains They separate Turkey's Mediterranean coast from the Anatolian Plateau.
  2. Pontic Mountains A range along the Black Sea coast of northern Anatolia.
  3. Aegean Sea An arm of the Mediterranean between the Balkans and Anatolia.
  4. Sea of Marmara It joins the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea.
  5. Lake Van The largest lake in Turkey, with no outlet.

Mesopotamia and Iran 5

  1. Alborz Mountains A range in northern Iran along the Caspian Sea's southern coast.
  2. Dasht-e Kavir The Great Salt Desert in the Iranian Plateau's middle.
  3. Dasht-e Lut A desert of salt flats and dunes in Iran.
  4. Lake Urmia A salt lake in Iran that has shrunk greatly.
  5. Shatt al-Arab The river formed where the Tigris and Euphrates meet.

The Arabian Peninsula 7

  1. Rub' al Khali The Empty Quarter, across the southern third of Arabia.
  2. Nafud Desert A sand desert in the northern Arabian Peninsula.
  3. Hejaz Mountains A range on the Red Sea coast of western Saudi Arabia.
  4. Asir Mountains Mountains in southwestern Saudi Arabia, parallel to the Red Sea.
  5. Hadhramaut A region in the south of the Arabian Peninsula.
  6. Al Hajar Mountains Mountains shared by northern Oman and the eastern United Arab Emirates.
  7. Bab-el-Mandeb The strait that joins the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.

How this list was compiled: Shapes, points and names: the site's own map drawing as it stood on 2026-10-01; the names are those of Natural Earth, the map data, and each was read again in the title or opening of the feature's English Wikipedia article. Detail lines: one fact each from the opening of that article, read on 2026-10-01 (checked 2026-10-01): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegean_Sea; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alborz; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_Peninsula; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_Sea; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asir_Mountains; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bab_al-Mandab_Strait; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus_Mountains; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Desert; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphrates; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Salt_Desert; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Aden; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Aqaba; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Oman; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Suez; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadhramaut; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajar_Mountains; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hejaz_Mountains; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_River; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nasser; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Urmia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Van; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lut_Desert; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nafud_desert; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negev; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_Delta; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubian_Desert; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontic_Mountains; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub'_al_Khali; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Galilee; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Marmara; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatt_al-Arab; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_desert; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurus_Mountains; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Desert; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagros_Mountains. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_geography_regions_polys (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_geography_regions_polys.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19; from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_geography_regions_polys (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_geography_regions_polys.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19; from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_geography_marine_polys (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_geography_marine_polys.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19; from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_geography_marine_polys (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_geography_marine_polys.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19; from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_lakes (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_lakes.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19; from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_rivers_lake_centerlines (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_rivers_lake_centerlines.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_admin_0_countries_lakes (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_admin_0_countries_lakes.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centred on 27°N 44°E. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. One place is too small to draw at this scale and shown as a dot. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

How it works

This Middle East map quiz with bodies of water opens on the big ones: the Mediterranean, Red and Black seas, the Persian Gulf, the Nile, the Tigris and the Euphrates. Five more rounds add the landforms, region by region, with no borders drawn.

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Six rounds, from the big waters to Arabia

The first round is the big bodies of water and the second the big landforms: the Arabian Peninsula, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, the Zagros and the Caucasus. Then the map zooms in on Egypt and the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia and Iran, and the Arabian Peninsula. Small waters such as the Dead Sea and the Suez Canal are answered at a ring joined to them by a line.

What this Middle East terrain map leaves out

The Sinai Peninsula, the Strait of Hormuz, the Bosporus and the Iranian Plateau are not shapes of the drawing, so they are not asked. North Africa stops at Egypt here: the rest of the Sahara and the Atlas Mountains are outside the frame.

  • The Tigris is the eastern river and the Euphrates the western; they meet in the Shatt al-Arab.
  • Two gulfs fork at the top of the Red Sea: Suez on the west side of Sinai, Aqaba on the east.
  • The Gulf of Oman lies between the Arabian Sea and the Strait of Hormuz, the way into the Persian Gulf.

Questions and answers

What bodies of water are on a Middle East map?

Around the land: the Mediterranean, Black, Caspian, Red and Arabian seas, the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the Gulf of Aden. Inside it: the Nile, Tigris, Euphrates and Jordan rivers, the Dead Sea, the Sea of Galilee and the Suez Canal.

Is this a Middle East bodies of water quiz or a Middle East physical features quiz?

Both. The first round asks water only. The next five add deserts, mountain ranges, peninsulas and lakes, so the six rounds together cover a Southwest Asia physical map quiz from class.

Why does the quiz say Persian Gulf?

The drawing takes its names from Natural Earth, its map data, which prints Persian Gulf. Arab governments call it the Arabian Gulf. The page takes no side, and Arabian Gulf counts as a typed answer.

Is there a Southwest Asia physical map labeled with every name?

Yes. Press Show me the labels first. Names are written on the map where there is room, and a tap on any ring or feature gives its name and one fact.

Can I print a blank physical map of Middle East features?

Yes. Before you answer the first question, open More options. The blank print numbers every feature and leaves a line for each name. The labeled print adds the answer key.

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