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Israel
GEOGRAPHY
Israel is located at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea.
It is bounded on the north by Lebanon, on the northeast by Syria,
on the east and southeast by Jordan, on the southwest by Egypt,
and on the west by the Mediterranean Sea . Before June 1967, the
area composing Israel (resulting from the armistice lines of 1949
and 1950) was about 20,700 square kilometers, which included 445
square kilometers of inland water. Thus Israel was roughly the
size of the state of New Jersey, stretching 424 kilometers from
north to south. Its width ranged from 114 kilometers to, at its
narrowest point, 10 kilometers. The area added to Israel after
the June 1967 War, consisting of occupied territories (the West
Bank--see Glossary--and the Gaza Strip) and annexed territories
(East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights) totaled an additional 7,477
square kilometers. The areas comprised the West Bank, 5,879 kilometers;
the Gaza Strip, 378; East Jerusalem, 70; and the Golan Heights,
1,150.
Data as of December 1988
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