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   Jeri Dansky (jeridansky@sfba.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Mar-2026 11:41:13 JST Jeri Dansky

   Time for me to pull up maps and get re-acquainted with Middle East geography. For example, where is Bahrain? (Yes, I've found it now.) Not the prompt I ever wanted to get a geography lesson.

   #Bahrain #MiddleEast

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     Jeri Dansky (jeridansky@sfba.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Mar-2026 11:54:13 JST Jeri Dansky

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     • essjax

     @essjax I actually never realized that the Middle East is considered part of Asia. Yeah, that feels weird to me, too.

     https://www.worldatlas.com/continents

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     essjax (essjax@essjax.com)'s status on Sunday, 01-Mar-2026 11:54:14 JST essjax

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     @jeridansky My geography is pretty good, but it always seems wrong to me that the UAE, Saudi etc are part of Asia.
     I mean, no other continent works either, but 'Asia' seems wrong. 🧐

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     Jeri Dansky (jeridansky@sfba.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Mar-2026 12:57:15 JST Jeri Dansky

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     • ginger🫰... 🎶🌻

     @tc_morekindness And Bahrain is tiny! You need a map where you can zoom in to get a decent look at it.

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     ginger🫰... 🎶🌻 (tc_morekindness@c.im)'s status on Sunday, 01-Mar-2026 12:57:17 JST ginger🫰... 🎶🌻

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     @jeridansky This map was very confusing to me until I realized that the water wasn't blue. 🤦♀️ I had seen elsewhere that Bahrain was between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Bahrain, so I kept looking for those bodies of water without reading the text that was more easily seen, e.g., Arabian Sea, Red Sea, Mediterranean...

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     Jeri Dansky (jeridansky@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Mar-2026 04:47:17 JST Jeri Dansky

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     • essjax

     @soaproot @essjax This brings back memories. When I worked at Memorex, back in the late 1970s, I was involved (from a financial reporting standpoint) with its EUMEA organization: Europe, Middle East and Africa.

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     soaproot (soaproot@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Mar-2026 04:47:18 JST soaproot

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     • essjax

     @essjax @jeridansky If Asia Minor is part of (some version of) Asia I suppose Arabia is too. But in the business world it is common to divide EMEA (Europe+Middle East+Africa) from AP (Asia Pacific).