Q. Consider the following statements regarding the Middle East:

1 The Middle East broadly refers to the region stretching from Egypt in North Africa to Iran in West Asia, encompassing parts of Western Asia and North Africa.
2 The Middle East contains several strategic maritime chokepoints such as the Strait of Hormuz, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, and the Suez Canal corridor.
3 All countries of the Middle East have coastlines on either the Mediterranean Sea or the Persian Gulf.

Consider the following statements regarding Qatar:
1 It is a peninsula projecting into the Persian Gulf and shares its only land border with Saudi Arabia.
2 It lies to the west of Bahrain and is separated from it by the Gulf of Oman.
3 It possesses the world’s largest non-associated natural gas field, known as the North Field, which it shares with Iran as the South Pars field.
4 It shares maritime boundaries with Iran across the Persian Gulf.