Official Name: All Middle East
Population: 230,000,000
Capital: 15 cities - Pop. 0
Area: 647,500 sq. km. / 402,338 sq. miles.
Language: Arabic, Hebrew, English
Religion: Muslim, Judaism, Christianity
Status of Homosexuality: Illegal (except Iraq, Israel, Jordan, West Bank)
Telephone Country Code: 0
Homosexuality in the Middle East is a scorned, denied and criminalized behavior. Secular and religious laws punish same-sex acts that range from imprisonment to whipping to execution. Islam is by far the most dominant religion and it influences secular laws to be harsh and sometimes fatal to gay people.
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