When I go at: http://translate.google.com/translate_t?sl=en&tl=ro and type: Middle East and click for translation I get: Orientul Mijlociu which is correct but if I type: middle east and click for translation I get: Romania So funny!
Maybe it detects your geo location and translate to that language? In that case it's not funny at all It's just Google trying to be smart.
I think it might be a joke of some users that suggested their own translation. This could probably be called Google-translation-bombing ...