How many countries approx. in the middle east?
There are 24 countries in the Middle East: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mid… 1 Egypt 2 Iran 3 Turkey 4 Sudan 5 Algeria 6 Morocco 7 Iraq 8 Saudi Arabia 9 Yemen 10 Syria 11 Tunisia 12 Israel 14 Libya 15 Jordan 16 United Arab Emirates 17 Palestinian territories 18 Mauritania 18 Kuwait 19 Oman 20 Cyprus 21 Qatar 22 Bahrain 23 Western Sahara 24 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus And no, not all of them are well endowed with oil and natural gas. Some of the countries are actually poor.