Armenians are an indigenous people of the Armenian Highlands in Transcaucasia (the South Caucasus), on the northwestern edge of Asia—so they are typically described as West Asian or Caucasian rather than as a core Levantine “Middle Eastern” group. Encyclopaedia Britannica places Armenia just south of the Caucasus Mountains and notes that it marks the northwestern edge of Asia, bordered by Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran, and Turkey.
Historically and genetically, Armenians are also tied to the broader Near East: research in the European Journal of Human Genetics describes them as a culturally isolated population that inhabited a Near Eastern region between the Mediterranean, Black Sea, and Caucasus. Whether the label “Middle Eastern” fits depends on how that term is defined—some geopolitical references include Armenia, while others treat Armenians specifically as Caucasian or West Asian.