Welcome to the summary page for FabulousFusionFood's West Asian recipes. This page provides links to all the West Asian recipes presented on this site, with 525 recipes in total.

These recipes, for the major part, originate in West Asia. Otherwise they are fusion recipes with major West Asian influences.

West Asia also called Western Asia or Southwest Asia, is the westernmost region of Asia. As defined by most academics, UN bodies and other institutions, the subregion consists of Anatolia, the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Mesopotamia, the Armenian highlands, the Levant, the island of Cyprus, the Sinai Peninsula and the South Caucasus. The region is separated from Africa by the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt, and separated from Europe by the waterways of the Turkish Straits and the watershed of the Greater Caucasus. Central Asia lies to its northeast, while South Asia lies to its east. Twelve seas surround the region (clockwise): the Aegean Sea, the Sea of Marmara, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aqaba, the Gulf of Suez, and the Mediterranean Sea. West Asia contains the majority of the similarly defined Middle East. The Middle East is a political term that has changed many times depending on political and historical context while West Asia is a geographical term with more consistency. It excludes most of Egypt and the northwestern part of Turkey, and includes the southern part of the Caucasus.

West Asia covers an area of 5,994,935 km2 (2,314,657 sq mi), with a population of about 313 million. Of the 20 UN member countries fully or partly within the region, 13 are part of the Arab world. The most populous countries in West Asia are Iran, Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

The term West Asia is used pragmatically and has no 'correct' or generally accepted definition. Its typical definitions overlap substantially, but not entirely, with definitions of the terms Middle East, Eastern Mediterranean, and Near East (which is historically familiar but widely deprecated today). The National Geographic Style Manual as well as Maddison's The World Economy: Historical Statistics (2003) by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) include only Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Palestine (called West Bank and Gaza in the latter), Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, UAE, and Yemen as West Asian countries. By contrast, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in its 2015 yearbook includes Armenia and Azerbaijan, and excludes Israel (as Other) and Turkey (as Europe).

'Western Asia' was in use as a geographical term in the early 19th century, before 'Near East' became current as a geopolitical concept. In the context of the history of classical antiquity, 'Western Asia' could mean the part of Asia known in classical antiquity, as opposed to the reaches of 'interior Asia', i.e. Scythia, and 'Eastern Asia' the easternmost reaches of geographical knowledge in classical authors, i.e. Transoxania and India. In the 20th century, 'Western Asia' was used to denote a rough geographical era in the fields of archaeology and ancient history, especially as a shorthand for 'the Fertile Crescent excluding Ancient Egypt' for the purposes of comparing the early civilizations of Egypt and the former.

Three major tectonic plates converge on West Asia, including the African, Eurasian, and Arabian plates. The boundaries between the tectonic plates make up the Azores-Gibraltar Ridge, extending across North Africa, the Red Sea, and into Iran. The Arabian Plate is moving northward into the Anatolian plate (Turkey) at the East Anatolian Fault, and the boundary between the Aegean and Anatolian plate in eastern Turkey is also seismically active.

The countries of West Asia are defined in the table below:

West Asia

Arms	Flag	Name of Territory	Capital	Name in Official Language(s)
Anatolia
		Turkey	Ankara	Türkiye Cumhuriyeti
Arabian Peninsula
		Bahrain	Manama	مملكة البحرين (Arabic: Mamlakat al-Baḥrayn)
		Kuwait	Kuwait City	دَوْلَة ٱلْكُوَيْت (Arabic: Dawla al-Kuwayt)
		Oman	Muscat	ދިވެހިރާއްޖޭގެ ޖުމްހޫރިއްޔާسلطنة عُمان (Arabic: Salṭanat ʻUmān)
		Qatar	Doha	دولة قطر (Arabic: Dawlat Qaṭar)
		Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	ٱلْمَمْلَكَة ٱلْعَرَبِيَّة ٱلسُّعُودِيَّة (Arabic: al-Mamlaka al-ʿArabiyya al-Suʿūdiyya)
		United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	الإمارات العربية المتحدة
		Yemen	Sana'a (Houthi-led government) Aden (Seat of government)	ٱلْجُمْهُورِيَّةُ ٱلْيَمَنِيَّةُ (Arabic: al-Jumhūriyyatu l-Yamaniyyatu)
South Caucasus
		Abkhazia (unrecognised)	Sukhumi	Аԥсны Аҳәынҭқарра (Abkhaz: Apsny Ahwyntqarra) Республика Абхазия (Russian: Respublika Abkhaziya)
		Armenia	Yerevan	Հայաստանի Հանրապետություն (Armenian: Hayastani Hanrapetut'yun)
		Azerbaijan	Baku	Azərbaycan Respublikası
		Georgia	Tblisi	საქართველო (Georgian: Sakartvelo)
		South Ossetia (Unrecognised)	Tskhinvali	Республикӕ Хуссар Ирыстон Паддзахад Алани (Ossetian Respiblikae Khussar Iryston Paddzakhad Alani)/ სამხრეთ ოსეთის რესპუბლიკა ალანეთის სახელმწიფო (Georgian:Samkhret Osetis Resp’ublik’a Alanetis Sakhelmts’ipo)/ Республика Южная Осетия Государство Алания (Russian: Respublika Yuzhnaya Osetiya Gosudarstvo Alaniya)
Fertile Crescent
		Iraq	Baghdad	جُمْهُورِيَّة ٱلْعِرَاق (Arabic: Jumhūriyya al-ʿIrāq) کۆماری عێراق (Kurdish: Komarî Êraq)
		Israel	Jerusalem	מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל/دَوْلَة إِسْرَائِيل
		Jordan	Amman	المملكة الأردنية الهاشمية (Arabic: al-Mamlakah al-ʾUrdunniyah al-Hāshimiyah)
		Lebanon	Beiruit	الجمهورية اللبنانية (Arabic: al-Jumhūrīyah al-Lubnānīyah)
		Palestine	Ramallah	دولة فلسطين (Arabic: Dawlat Filasṭīn)
		Syria	Damascus	الجمهورية العربية السورية (Arabic: al-Jumhūriyya al-ʿArabiyya as-Sūriya)
Iranian Plateau
		Iran	Tehran	جمهوری اسلامی ایران (Persian: Jomhuri-ye Eslâmi-ye Irân)
Mediterranean Sea
		Akrotiri and Dhekelia	Episkopi	Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia
		Cyprus	Nicosia	Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία (Greek)/Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti (Turkish)
		Northern Cyprus (Unrecognised)	North Nicosia	Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti (Turkish)
Sinai Peninsula
		Egypt	Cairo	جمهورية مصر العربية (Arabic: Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah)