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A map considered by the British Cabinet in 1918 suggested that the Negev could be included in either Palestine or Egypt. [44] The 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement between Britain and France placed the Negev in Area B, "Arab state or states" under British patronage. [45]
Negev Mountains is a mountainous area in the north-western part of the Negev desert, in Israel. Mount Ramon is the summit of Negev Mountains and the highest point in southern Israel, reaching 1,037 metres (3,402 ft). Most of the area belongs to Negev Mountains Nature Reserve, the largest reserve in Israel. Its area is about 1,045,000 dunam. [1]
It covers most of the Negev desert, as well as the Arava valley. The population of the Southern District is 1,086,240 and its area is 14,185 km 2. Its population is 79.66% Jewish and 12.72% Arab (mostly Muslim), with 7.62% of other origins. [4] Geographical distribution of the main ethno-cultural communities in the Southern District in 2008. [5]
Module:Location map/data/Israel negev mt is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Southern Negev region of Israel. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Southern Israel is dominated by the Negev desert, covering some 16,000 square kilometres (6,178 sq mi), more than half of the country's total land area. The north of the Negev contains the Judean Desert , which, at its border with Jordan, contains the Dead Sea which, at −417 m (−1,368 ft) is the lowest point on Earth.
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Beersheba (/ b ɪər ˈ ʃ iː b ə / beer-SHEE-bə), officially Be'er-Sheva, [2] [a] is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel.Often referred to as the "Capital of the Negev", it is the centre of the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in Israel, the eighth-most populous Israeli city with a population of 214,162, [1] and the second-largest city in area (after Jerusalem ...
[138] [139] Only towards the end of this border dispute, from 1892 to 1906, was the Negev gradually separated as a distinct area from the rest of the Sinai Peninsula. It was also only during this time that the words "Negev" and "Negeb" entered the vocabulary as a toponym for a distinct region in languages such as English, German, and French. [140]