Why is it hard to identify the boundaries of the MIddle East?

Answer 1

Answer 1
it is hard to identify the boundary of the Middle East because a region is identified by its characteristics . The middle east is mostly dry and full of deserts but it has an interrupted circle of water around it which would disclude Cyprus, Sudan and Afghanistan which were always thought to be middle Eastern country's.

Answer 2
The Middle East is as much a cultural term as a strict geographic term. As a result, depending on which countries a person wishes to include in an analysis of the Middle East, some countries may be added or removed. There are additionally no clear edges of the Middle East since most mountains or water boundaries have more "Middle Eastern Territory" on the other side. This is as opposed to, say, the border between North and South America that clearly passes through the center of the Panama Canal.

Answer 2

Because in the middle east it has so many religions and countries.

It is difficult to define as a region because it is determined more by cultural similarities than by actual geographic features. Because the definition is cultural, some people wish to extend the physical borders of the Middle East to include culturally similar places like North Africa or Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Answer 3

It is hard to identify the Middle East because it had some distinct physical and human characteristics to identify as a region.