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Israel, [a] officially the State of Israel, [b] is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. ... comprised a minority and fluctuated in size.
To the west of Israel is the Mediterranean Sea, which makes up the majority of Israel's 273 km (170 mi) coastline, [3] and the Gaza Strip. Israel has a small coastline on the Red Sea in the south. Israel's area is approximately 20,770 km 2 (8,019 sq mi), which includes 445 km 2 (172 sq mi) of inland water.
The Israel Central Bureau of Statistics ("CBS") definition of the Area of the State of Israel: [5] includes East Jerusalem since 1967, which Israel unilaterally annexed;
Maps show that Israel and the Gaza Strip would cover only fractions of Southern California and the Los Angeles area, respectively.
Israel's financial capital and technology center is Tel Aviv [2] and the proclaimed capital is Jerusalem, although the state's sovereignty over the city of Jerusalem is internationally unrecognized. [3] [4] About 43% of the world's Jews live in Israel today, the largest Jewish community in the world. [5]
This article lists the 73 localities in Israel that the Israeli Ministry of Interior has designated as a city council. It excludes the 4 Israeli settlements in the West Bank designated as cities, but occupied East Jerusalem is included within Jerusalem. The list is based on the current index of the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS).
Districts, Subdistricts and Natural Regions of the State of Israel, 2018 Population density by natural region, subdistrict, and district in 2018 (thicker border indicates higher tier) There are six main administrative districts of Israel, known in Hebrew as mekhozot (מְחוֹזוֹת; sing. מָחוֹז, makhoz) and in Arabic as mintaqah.
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