Arab also known as the great Arab homeland and the Arab world is a geographical term - a political call to a geographical area with a history, language and culture and common religion extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea and the Arabian Gulf in the east, including the countries that fall in the League of Arab States in West Asia and North Africaand east. Geographically, includes the Arab territories occupied or become part of neighboring countries such as Palestine and the Golan Heights, and a brigade of Iskenderun and regions Syrian North surrendered by France to Turkey and the Canary Islands and Ceuta and Melilla and rock Hoceima (under Spanish colonialism) and the UAE islands (Greater and Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa) occupied Iran.

While most Arabs use the term Arab world, used Western parties or influenced by the West the term "Arab world" or even "the Middle East and North Africa," such as the U.S. State Department, which shall cease to be a Arabism naming the region. The term "Middle East" may have originated in 1850 in India Office British. , but it became widely known and widely when used U.S. Navy by Alfred Thayer Mahan in 1902 to refer to the area between Saudi Arabia and India