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Should the Middle East be grouped with East Asia as the continent of Asia, or not?
What about the United Nations? How do they categorize the Middle East and East Asia?
The United Nations divides the world into five geographic regions: Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, and the Middle East. The Middle East is considered a sub-region of Asia under this system, but it is still treated as a distinct entity.