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Summary

Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east.html

High-resolution political / railway / roadmap of the Middle East from 2003.

Further background at http://erg.usgs.gov/nimamaps/ .

The map contains several major errors, for example, Haifa , Israel is located where Acre should be, and Tel Aviv is approximately where Netanya should be.

Licensing

This image is a work of the United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency or one of its predecessor agencies . As a work of the U.S. federal government , the image is in the public domain . English ∙ српски / srpski ∙ 日本語 ∙ +/−