Question: what are the five main physical regions in the middle east?
Answer: northern tier. WHERE: turkey and iran. PLATEAUS: turkey-anatolian plateau. ...  fertile crescent. WHERE: iraq. RIVERS: tigris and euphrates. ...  arabian peninsula. WHERE: saudia arabia, yemen, oman, UAE. SURROUNDED BY: ...  nile valley. WHERE: egypt and sudan. maghreb. VOCABULARY: maghreb- western isle. THE "WESTERN SIDE"