BahrainAsia · BHAwaiting official verification
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Manama, Bahrain — B.alotaby — CC BY-SA 4.0
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Middle East
Sixteen destinations across the Gulf, the Levant, Anatolia and North Africa, gathered in one place for browsing.
Definitions of the Middle East vary between governments, institutions and everyday use, and no single list is authoritative. This is the browsing collection Visa Atlas uses, not a political or geographic ruling. Each country keeps its own continent in the directory data — Egypt is listed under Africa, Türkiye and the Gulf states under Asia — and this collection is a separate tag layered on top.
Collections are editorial browsing groups. Membership says nothing about visa eligibility, entry rules, current conditions or safety — always check the official government or embassy source for your destination.
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BahrainAsia · BH
EgyptAfrica · EGAwaiting official verification
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Cairo, Egypt — Faris El-Gwely — CC BY 4.0
IranAsia · IRAwaiting official verification
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Tehran, Iran — Amir Pashaei — CC BY-SA 4.0
IraqAsia · IQAwaiting official verification
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Iraq, Iraq — Diyar Muhammed — CC BY-SA 4.0
IsraelAsia · ILAwaiting official verification
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Tel Aviv, Israel — FLASHPACKER TRAVELGUIDE — CC BY-SA 2.0
JordanAsia · JOAwaiting official verification
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Amman, Jordan — David Bjorgen — CC BY-SA 3.0
KuwaitAsia · KWAwaiting official verification
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Kuwait City, Kuwait — User:Deepak — CC BY-SA 3.0
LebanonAsia · LBAwaiting official verification
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Beirut, Lebanon — Yoniw — CC BY-SA 3.0
OmanAsia · OMAwaiting official verification
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Muscat, Oman — Leon petrosyan — CC BY-SA 4.0
QatarAsia · QAAwaiting official verification
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Doha, Qatar — Francisco Anzola — CC BY 2.0
Saudi ArabiaAsia · SAAwaiting official verification
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — B.alotaby — CC BY-SA 4.0
PalestineAsia · PSAwaiting official verification
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Bethlehem, State of Palestine — Britchi Mirela — CC BY-SA 4.0
SyriaAsia · SYAwaiting official verification
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Damascus, Syria — See above. — CC BY-SA 3.0
TürkiyeAsia · TRAwaiting official verification
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Ankara, Türkiye — Jorge Franganillo from Barcelona, Spain — CC BY 2.0
United Arab EmiratesAsia · AEAwaiting official verification
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — Валерий Дед — CC BY 3.0
YemenAsia · YEEach country here is the same single record used everywhere else in the directory — the collection is a tag, so the directory still holds 196 countries with no duplicates.