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the population in the entire region is increasing quickly

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With the money, the governments have built large, modern cities

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There are 22 cities with over 1 million people and five with over 3 million.

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1/3 of the people in the Middle East still live in rural areas.

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There quickly growing they have double in size in the last 15 years

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Many countries have gotten rich with the money from oil.

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Some large cities are Tehran, Iran; Baghdad, Iraq; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; and Ankara, Turkey

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Over 9 million people live in Istanbul, Turkey.