Template talk: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
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)
