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title: "New Regions: Middle East and Africa Expansion"
description: "Bringing edge infrastructure to underserved regions."
url: https://edge.network/latest/new-regions-middle-east-and-africa/
---

# New Regions: Middle East and Africa Expansion

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# New Regions: Middle East and Africa Expansion

Bringing edge infrastructure to underserved regions.

186

New PoPs

10

New Cities

2

New Regions

<20ms

Local Latency

Today we're excited to announce a major expansion of Edge CDN into the Middle East
and Africa. This expansion adds 186 new CDN points of presence across 10 cities, bringing
low-latency content delivery to regions that have historically been underserved by
traditional CDN providers.

## Why This Matters

For too long, users in the Middle East and Africa have experienced slow content delivery
from global CDN services. Static assets, images, and video were served from distant
edge locations in Europe or Asia, adding hundreds of milliseconds of latency. For
media-rich websites, video streaming, and e-commerce, this meant slower load times
and frustrated users.

With this expansion, we're changing that. Local CDN presence means your content is
cached and served from within the region, dramatically reducing latency and improving
the experience for hundreds of millions of users.

## New Regions

### Middle East

120 PoPs
Strategic CDN presence across the Gulf states and wider Middle East, delivering content at sub-20ms latency to one of the world's fastest-growing digital economies.

Dubai Tel Aviv Riyadh Doha Kuwait City

### Africa

66 PoPs
CDN edge locations across the African continent, serving over 1.4 billion people with low-latency content delivery.

Johannesburg Cape Town Lagos Nairobi Cairo

## What This Means For You

### Faster Content Delivery

Users in these regions now experience sub-20ms latency instead of 150ms+ when content was served from Europe.

### Local Caching

Content is cached at edge locations within the region, reducing origin fetches and improving cache hit rates.

### Better User Experience

Faster page loads, smoother video streaming, and snappier web applications for millions of users.

### Zero Configuration

Traffic is automatically routed to the nearest PoP. No changes needed — your content is already being served locally.

### Already Live

The new Middle East and Africa CDN regions are already active for all Edge CDN customers.
No action required on your part:

Traffic is automatically routed to the nearest PoP — no configuration needed
Your existing CDN zones immediately benefit from the new locations
Cache warming happens automatically as users request content
Zero egress fees apply to these regions, same as everywhere else

## Looking Ahead

This CDN expansion is part of our commitment to building a truly global content
delivery network. We believe everyone deserves fast access to content, regardless of
where they are. Over the coming months, we'll continue to add more edge locations in
these regions based on demand.

If you have specific requirements for locations not yet covered, we'd love to hear
from you. Our CDN expansion roadmap is driven by customer needs.

### Ready to Go Global?

Start delivering content to the Middle East and Africa with sub-20ms latency today.
All regions are available to every account at no extra cost.

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Have questions about our CDN coverage or need help optimising delivery?
[Contact our team](https://edge.network/contact) —
we're here to help you make the most of our global CDN.

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