Template talk:Countries of Southwest Asia

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[edit] Egypt

Is Egypt really in "Southwest Asia"? Does the border go through the Suez canal? If so, where did the border go before the canal was built? Thuresson January 15, 2005

Not all of Egypt is in Southwest Asia, just the Sinai Peninsula, which is territory of Egypt and it is located in Asia. —Cantus 10:00, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)

Well, I can assure u that Sinai is just a link between africa and asia, and that doesn't make Egypt one of the southwest Asia countries

Partially, yes. —Cantus 11:44, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)

The Egyptian government considers Egypt to be part of Africa (as does just about everyone else in the world...), not Asia. This is like claiming that Turkey is in Europe thanks to the tiny sliver of land that Istanbul sits on. Egypt should be removed from this list. —Nefertum17 18:03, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Egypt is just one of these oh-so-undecided borderline cases. If Sinai is part of the southwestern-asian region (and I can not see how it can be excluded) then Egypt is also in SouthWestAsia (even if such a small part of it). Also, if you include the Caucaus region (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia) to SouthWestAsia, then Russia should be included here too, becouse of the tiny little portion asian territory south of the Caucaus. Of course the bigger asian russian territory is in North Asia.

[edit] Dependent territories / special territories

There's currently a discussion at template talk:East Asia over whether the official name of territory, namely special administrative region, and which sovereign State the territories listed belong to, have to be specified in the {{East Asia}} template. Please feel free to join the discussion and express your opinion. — Instantnood 11:46, August 3, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] somtimes included: Egypt, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia

We should add the following:

Sometimes included:  Afghanistan  · Azerbaijan  · Georgia  · Egypt

Parsiwan 21:46, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Also add Pakistan to the list, as it also sometimes included. Effer 21:31, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Standardization suggestion - please contribute!

A suggestion for a standard approach to the naming, titling and sections of this and similar templates has been made here – please visit and share your thoughts!  Thanks, David Kernow (talk) 03:27, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Needs a bullet between Kuwait and Lebanon

Just a notice to an administrator, or someone who can edit this; there's nothing dividing the links to Kuwait and Lebanon. ~ El Cid 03:12, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Done!  Thanks for spotting, David Kernow (talk) 23:07, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
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