Cities of Western Asia (World) collects this atlas's city entities that sit within the Western Asia subregion of the United Nations M49 standard, region code 145. The UN Statistics Division's M49 overview page assigns these places to Western Asia: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Georgia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the State of Palestine, the Syrian Arab Republic, Turkiye, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen. This group node anchors every atlas city already tied to one of those Western Asian countries, from ancient capitals such as Damascus, Baghdad and Jerusalem to present day metropolitan centers such as Istanbul, Dubai and Riyadh, so a reader can browse the region's urban settlements as one connected set instead of hunting country by country through the atlas's own country listing.