World Map Series Lecture 01: Middle East Region 100+ MCQs Detailed Explanation

Assalam o Alaikum Everyone From today we are going to start World Map series I have started different series including computer series, analytical reasoning series, one paper series, I am also solving papers near PPSC All playlists are available I will pin in the comment section Today our first lecture is about World Map In World Map today we will discuss Middle East

I will not only teach you the map of the Middle East

along with the map, the history of all the countries, their old names, which sea they are in, which conflicts they are in, which leaders they are in, which sea they are in, which major choke points they are in, which gulf they are in, which straits they are in, okay? So, let's come to the details, which are their capitals, so

I will discuss each and every thing in broad spectrum and will do it in speed because I have to cover a lot of data today. I have to share some tips and tricks with you. So, let's start. A lot of things will be covered. Tell me at the end of the video what you learned. Okay, so let's start. First of all, this is our SirMap.

This is the map of Iran. Pakistan is next to Iran.

Pakistan's neighbour country is Iran. Okay. Right above Iran, here we have Turkey. And people say that half of Turkey is in Europe and half is in Asia. Sir, not half. 96% of Turkey is in Asia and 4% of Turkey is in Europe. And a country that is coming into two continents,

we call that country Transcontinental Country Sir, are you fine till here? Transcontinental Country Okay, is Iran's name old? Yes, Iran's old name is Persia What is it sir? Persia Okay, after that, the sea above Iran is called Caspian Sea Which countries surround Caspian Sea? I will tell you its trick later Okay,

We have a black sea on the top of Turkey. We will do it with peace. We will cover one thing. So things are like this. After that, look here. So you will draw a line from here.

like this and you have to draw a line like this and you have to mix it like this so this region will be made below Turkey this is Syria so after Syria you can see inside Syria this is a small map this is Lebanon and if you draw a line like this then this region will be made

This is Israel. And this small strip of Israel is called Gaza.

This is our small Palestine. And this W type we have is West Bank. This was also in Palestine but it has been captured. And right here, this line is Rafa crossing. And this is looking like the Swiss Canal.

This is the Suez Canal. This is the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. This is the Suez Canal. This is the Rafah Crossing that these people did not open for the Palestinians. Egypt did not open this Rafah Crossing. A secular person is sitting here. Al-Sisi. Okay.

So, look at the red sea below the Swiss Canal.

This is the Swiss Canal, this is the Red Sea which is going and this is the Swiss Canal and then which is the upper sea? Sir, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine are on this side. Sir, this is the Mediterranean Sea. So here I can tell you one thing that the Swiss Canal works to merge the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.

This is the Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea. The work of the Swiss Canal is to mix the Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea. This is the Swiss Canal. Next thing is Syria. See this is the east of Syria. This is Iraq. And below Syria is Jordan.

If we draw this line, then we have Oman, Yemen, Sana'a, Houthis, and Rebels. This is Oman and this small piece is UAE.

This is UAE and this patch is called Gulf of Oman.

This small patch in the Gulf of Oman is called Strait of Hormuz. It is controlled by Iran. 40% of the world's oil trade is made from here. The reason why the US has not attacked Iran yet is that Iran is threatening and controlling the Strait of Hormuz.

So, the major control of Iran is on the state of Hormuz. If we go a little further, if we cross the state of Hormuz and go a little further here, then this region is called Persian Gulf. Now, did you understand? Iran's old name was Persia, that's why we call this region Persian Gulf.

This is the small part of the Persian Gulf. This is Bahrain. This is Qatar. This is UAE. This is Kuwait. This is Saudi Arabia. This is the whole region of Saudi Arabia.

Now see here also a gulf is being formed, here also when water is attached with a land portion, it removes the soil from there and creates a patch there. This is called Gulf of Aden.

If we have the Gulf of Aden, then what do we call this small piece? This is another choke point. Sir, we call it Bab-ul-Mandab. What do we call it, sir? Bab-ul-Mandab. We have the Gulf of Aden, we call it Bab-ul-Mandab. So, while entering the Gulf of Aden, you will fall into the Mediterranean Sea, while entering the Red Sea, while entering the Swiss Canal.

Let's move on to the next topic. The lower part of Pakistan is the Arabian Sea. We have seen the Caspian Sea on Iran, the Black Sea on Turkey, the Mediterranean Sea on Lebanon, Israel and Palestine. The Red Sea is seen on the west side of Saudi Arabia.

Then we have Arabian Sea. I have covered at least 5 seas here. I have covered 2 Gulfs here. Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman and 2 choke points. If you cross Gulf of Oman, you will have the state of Hormuz. If you cross Gulf of Aden, you will reach Bab-ul-Mandab.

Let's move forward and see their capital and currency and then I will tell you their history. Let's move forward. Total 15 countries come under Middle East.

First of all, Iran is the capital of Iran, Tehran is its currency, Riyal is its currency, Iraq is the capital of Baghdad, I have uploaded many MCQs about Baghdad. Now how things are done, things are done like this. Now as I tell you that Iraq's capital is Baghdad and here you put it in a rata and the exchange ends, but no, they don't do it like this. How do they do it?

I have made a video on this topic. I will tell you all about it in a minute. Iraq's capital is Baghdad. If you move back after watching the video, you will see the whole story. Imam Abu Hanifa's shrine is in Baghdad. Imam Musa Qasim's shrine is also in Baghdad.

The next thing we have is the shrine of Hazrat Abdul Qadir Jilani. In 762 B.C. this capital was built in the era of Banu Abbas. From 750 to 1258 this capital was built. This Baghdad is also called Baitul Hikmah. Why is it called Baitul Hikmah?

All our Muslim scientists, Jabir bin Hayyan, Al Khwarazmi, Abu Musa, Abu Ali Sina, all of them got education from here. This is also called Baytul Hikmah. This is also called City of Peace. This is also called Arusul Balad.

Sir, one paper is like the ocean. You have to open and open the paper and you will get a lot of things. So, the capital of Baghdad is Aroos-ul-Balad. This is the purpose of my video. I tell you the options and tick it. You can do this too. Google is available. You tick it and you get rid of it. But no. The preparations are like this. In 1920, this capital is changing.

This is also called the city of peace. The ancient name of Iraq was Mesopotamia Civilization. So, sir, this is how some preparations are made. I have already covered all these things to you. Let's go a little further.

Iraq's capital is Baghdad. Its currency is Riyal. Qatar's capital is Doha. Its currency is Riyal. Bahrain's capital is Manama. Its currency is Dinar. Its capital is Kuwait. Its currency is Kuwaiti Dinar. Turkey's capital is Ankara. Its currency is Turkish Lira. Its currency is Damascus. Its currency is Syrian Pound. Israel's capital is Jerusalem. Its currency is

Pound

Damascus pound is Syrian pound. Israel's currency is Shekel. Saudi Arabia's capital is Riyadh. Saudi Riyadh's currency is Riyadh. Jordan's currency is Oman. It is not Oman, it is Oman. We have its currency, rupees. Jordan is dollars. If I do a little next thing, I have written Palestine separately. I will show you here.

Palestine's capital is Ramallah city. After that we have Lebanon's capital is Beirut. And its currency is Lebanese Pound. UAE's currency is Dirham. You know that its capital is Abu Dhabi. Okay, let's move ahead a little bit. And let's see things in detail. Some of our countries are still left.

Sir, please come here. I have written many details for you. The capital of Yemen is Sana. Houthis live in Yemen and the currency of Yemeni Riyal is also there. The capital of Oman is Muscat and its currency is Omani Riyal.

Next thing I want to tell you is that Israel is being formed on 14th May 1948. The first Islamic country that accepted Israel and unfortunately Turkey. Turkey accepted Israel in 1949. Where is the Ottoman Empire, where is the era of Khilafat, where is Turkey, where is the Ottoman Empire and where is the acceptance of Israel in 1949.

In 1978, Camp David Accord was held. I will make a separate lecture on Camp David Accord. If I go into that, then the video will be very long. Egypt recognized Israel. Egypt also accepted Israel in Camp David Accord. Now it became clear that why Egypt did not open Rafah Crossing.

Ok Sir, this is the situation. UAE has also recognized Israel. And the big thing here is that Saudi Arabia has also been officially recognized. Yes, it has not been officially announced. But Saudi Arabia is waiting for this war to stop and I will go and recognize it. Israel is the biggest supporter of Saudi Arabia.

the biggest supporter. So, the talk will be long here. So, in 1994, Jordan then accepted Israel. The current members of the UN are 193 members, of which South Sudan, the latest, joined in 2011. There are two observer states of this. How many? There are two observer states. One is Vatican City, which is also called Holy See. And the other is Palestine. These are two observer states. The rest are 193 members of this.

There was a huge conflict between Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Let me explain you something. Let me give you a little touch. It was a current affair. Saudi Arabia and Yemen had a huge tussle. Saudi Arabia attacked Yemen in 2015 with weapons from America. They had a huge threat to Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

They thought that the Houthi rebels who were sitting in Yemen were a big threat to them and their sovereignty and soft power. So Saudi Arabia took weapons from the US in 2015 and attacked Yemen. China visited Yemen in December 2022 and ended the Shia-Sunni conflict. Sunni means Saudi Arabia and Shia community means Iran. There was a lot of Shia-Sunni clash. So Iran

China visited here in December 2022 and mediated between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Iran and Saudi Arabia ended the Shia-Sunni conflict and their 40-year-old enmity changed into friendship. Here the US came out. So China pushed out the US from this region. That peace will come in this region, development will happen, we will go our way, we will make Asian bloc. This was China's vision.

Something happened that Ghazalwar started and then Iran was blasted and many leaders were martyred. Their own president Ibrahim Raisi and then the leader of Palestine Ismail Haniya was also assassinated.

So, the head is being tussled here. Now Iran is trying to attack Israel. But US threatens that if Iran attacks Israel, then we will do a responsible action. And US pressurizes Saudi Arabia to stop Iran from doing this. Negotiate Iran and stop Iran from doing this.

So now the situation is that China had united Iran, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Now there is a dispute between these two.

Now there is some peace between them. Saudi Arabia attacked Yemen in 2015. The next thing I want to tell you is that when Israel attacked Palestine, the Houthis of Yemen did not say anything from here. No one said anything from here. Yes, the Lebanese people attacked. All the other groups did not say anything.

The Houthis of Yemen who have nothing but they have the courage and they have blocked the Red Sea with their boats. They did not let the ship of Israel pass through the Red Sea.

and here they closed all the ships of Israel then what happened? we have Africa here, Egypt comes into Africa then when ships came from here, they did not let the Yemeni Houthis enter the Gulf of water so what did they do? they went from the Cape of town and then they went to Europe

I will show you the map in a second

so see this, when ships came from here from the Indian side so there was no question to enter the Gulf of Aden because Yemen was sitting here and they used to block the Red Sea so they didn't let the ships pass through Yemen so those ships used to come from here and here and here see from below the continent of Africa means from Cape of Town sir from Cape of Town and from here they used to come here in Europe

This is the thing that the Houthis of Yemen had put a lot of effort into. Let's move ahead a little bit. There are three islands in the Persian Gulf. You may not have heard of them. Maybe you know. Abu Musa, Greater Tumb and Laser Tumb.

Sir, look at these things. There are three islands in the Persian Gulf. Let me show you. Which was the Persian Gulf? It is right next to Iran. This region is called Persian Gulf. Sir, this region is called Persian Gulf. There are three islands in the Persian Gulf. Which ones? Abu Musa,

Abu Musa, Greater Tumb or Laser Tumb? Sir, these are disputed between UAE and Iran. Iran and UAE have a dispute over these. Who is controlling them? These islands are controlled by Iran but claimed by UAE. UAE claims that these are mine but who controls Iran? Next thing is Horn of Africa. Sir, horn is called Singho.

like a cow and its horn, I will show you something here, so horn is made like this on the map of Africa, why not I show you there and tell you the trick to remember, four countries come in horn of Africa, Jabuti, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, S W D seed, remember the seed, the talk is over, so this choke point was our Bab-ul-Mandab,

and this is Horn of Africa because it is a horned animal horned is like Horn of Africa and the great thing is that this is called the gate of sorrow and this is called the gate of sorrow and this is called the red sea let me show you the map so that it will be good so see this is the Gulf of Aden this is the choke point this is called Bab-ul-Mandab

This is the whole of Africa. This is the whole of Africa. This is how the lion is made. Which countries are there in this? We have this Chabuti.

Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritrea. Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Somalia. Let me tell you an MC use. Here, they ask about Bab-ul-Mandab. Which country does Bab-ul-Mandab come between? Yemen. And which country does it come between? Children don't know. It comes between Eritrea, sir. Sorry, Djibouti. Djibouti and Eritrea are together, right? Look at this.

So, it comes between Jabuti and Eritrea. Okay, sir. So, this is a horn. So, we have four countries in this. So, SWDC is its trick.

So, the last two things and our lecture will end. We have a very big lecture. Let's end it. Gulf Cooperation Council, GCC. Sir, there are 8 states of GCC. We have 8 Gulf states. Because they are associated with Gulf, so there are 8 states. Which are they? Iran is associated with Gulf, Iraq is associated with Gulf, Saudi Arabia is associated with it. KSA means Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Don't worry. Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Oman. So, sir, these were 8 states.

which are called Gulf states and when GCC was formed, it had 6 members but not 2. Why? What is the reason? Because 2 members were not formed. There was a dispute between Iran and Iraq when GCC was formed. If you ask Gulf states, you will get 8. If you ask Gulf Cooperation Council, you will get 6.

I have already told you that 96% of Turkey is in Asia and 4% of Turkey is in Europe. Who told Turkey? I told them that I will not tell you much about history.

The Russian ruler who was called Zar used to say that Turkey is the sick man of Europe. He used to say that all the conflicts in Europe are happening because of Turkey. After that, there are two ports of Iran, Chabahar and Bandar Abbas.

Pakistan took its Gawadar Port from Oman on 8th September 1958. Pakistan took its Gawadar Port. It is an economic hub. In future, World Bank says that it will be a big thing if Pakistan works on its internal security. But Pakistan has internal security issues. Pakistan can only fix its internal security.

Pakistan has a lot of potential, talent and resources. We have Karachi, Indus river, we have a lot of potential. We are not able to fix Balochistan, KPK, or stop terrorism. We have to see the political instability in Punjab.

8 September 1958. Okay, now let's talk about Caspian Sea. Caspian Sea, you saw, was right above Iran. Now, Caspian Sea is surrounded by Tariq countries. Who is this Tariq? Sir, Tariq means, I made a trick for you guys. T means Turkmenistan, A means Azerbaijan, R means Russia, I stands for Iran and K stands for Kazakhstan. Sir, done.

These were the things I wanted to discuss with you. There is one last thing. Swiss Canal was established on 17 November 1869. Who was the person who nationalized the Swiss Canal? If you were doing the assistant director's paper, then MC Hughes was the first.

So this canal was nationalized by Jamal Abdul Nasser on 26th July 1956. So Sir, I hope you have learned a lot. Do let me know in the comment section whether it has benefited you or not. Okay, so stay tuned for more. Thank you.