It contains the following 17 countries:
Egypt, Iran, Turkey, Irak, Saudi-Arabia, Yemen, Syria, United arab emirates,
Isreal, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Cyprus.
The official languages are the following:
Arabic, Azerbaijan, English, French, Greek, Hebrew, Kurdish, Persian and Turkish.
The most common religions are:
Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Manichaeism, Yezidi, Druze, Yarsan and Mandeanism.
Most of my realatives live in the middle east so it is very hard for me to go through the day knowing some of my realatives could be in danger. My parents told me every 8 minutes, there is a huge tragedy in the country my realatives live in. It frightens me alot but gladly, technology these days allow me to contact them and make sure their happy and safe.
The middle-east isn't the largest of the world's international territories or the most powerful, but the middle-east is where most of the world's destruction occurs. In 2003-2013, near 500 000 people killed (only in irak) since the irak war. There's currently a countless number of wars happening right now in the middle-east and these wars will affect the middle-east's population immensely.
Sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Middle_East_countries_by_population
My info on the countries, languages, and religions was found on Wikipedia


