Listening to an Iranian official describe his region as “West Asia” got me wondering if the word “Middle East” is on the outs and why. I suspect Middle East is eurocentric for some reason, but West Asia also preserves Europe as a continent, which is Eurocentric in its own way because Europe is not a continent and never was. If we’re calling anything West Asia, it should be Spain and Portugal.
What’s the middle eastern hemisphere?
You seem really confused about the Middle East, and the geography of Asia in general. The Old World is not the same as the Eastern Hemisphere, and the Middle East is not the same as Central Asia.