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by Tomte 692 days ago
In English, Bangladesh is not Middle East. In German, it is. Israel is Near East from our perspective.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittlerer_Osten

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Wow, I had no idea that "Middle East" referred to different regions in different languages - that's interesting.

Btw we say "Near East" in English too and it's vaguely defined but it usually includes Israel. But I don't think it's wrong to say that Israel is in the "Middle East" too - the two terms overlap somewhat.