Middle East (the geopolitical region at the intersection of Asia, Africa and Europe, comprising West Asia excluding the South Caucasus and additionally including all of Egypt and all of Turkey)
Near East (the geographic region of Western Asia located southeast of Eastern Europe, comprising Anatolia, Transcaucasia, the Levant, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, and Arabia)
Ossetia (an ethnolinguistic region on the border of Europe and Asia, located on both sides of the Greater Caucasus Mountains, largely inhabited by the Ossetians)
South Ossetia (a geographic region and de-facto independent but largely unrecognized country in the South Caucasus on the border of Europe and Asia; considered part of Georgia's territory by the vast majority of the international community)