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This page identifies the current consensus around the modern location of this biblical place. The isobands you see on the map (gray areas with dark borders) attempt to give you confidence where a region is.
In addition to Israel, the boundaries of Canaan on this map appear to include most of the modern country of Lebanon, as well as small portions of modern-day Syria, Jordan, and the Sinai Peninsula (which is now controlled by Egypt).
The Israelites occupied and conquered Palestine, or Canaan, beginning in the late 2nd millennium bce, or perhaps earlier; and the Bible justifies such occupation by identifying Canaan with the Promised Land, the land promised to the Israelites by God.
Geographically, Canaan was situated in the ancient Near East, encompassing a region that roughly corresponds to modern-day Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and parts of Jordan and Syria. The boundaries of Canaan are described in several biblical passages.
The Canaanites were the inhabitants of ancient Canaan, a region that roughly corresponds to present-day Israel and Palestine, western Jordan, southern and coastal Syria, Lebanon, and continued up to the southern border of Turkey.
Canaan now encompasses the whole of present-day Israel, Gaza, Jordan, Palestine, the West Bank, and southern parts of modern-day Lebanon and Syria.
This map of ancient Israel features the biblical boundaries of the Land of Israel as described in Genesis 15:18 and Genesis 17:8. I assign the land you sojourn in to you and your offspring to come, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting holding. I will be their God.”
This page attempts to identify all the possible locations where this biblical place could be. The confidence levels add up to less than 100%, indicating that the modern location is uncertain. It's best to think about the confidences in relative rather than absolute terms.
A map of Canaan with the boundaries as indicated in the Bible's books of Numbers and Ezekiel.
Canaan is stated in Genesis 10:6 to have been a son of Ham and brother of Mizraim, or Egypt. This indicates the Mosaic period when the conquerors of the XVIIIth and XIXth Egyptian Dynasties made Canaan for a time a province of the Egyptian empire.