!!!Israel: Geography
||Location|Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Egypt and Lebanon
||Geographic Coordinates|31 30 N, 34 45 E[{GoogleMap location='31.5,34.75' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''20,770 sq km\\''land: ''20,330 sq km\\''water: ''440 sq km__\\''We are unable to verify those figures from Factbook, since the 6 main sources we used for checking give different figures as follows:\\[Factbook|https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook]: 20770\\ [DBpedia|http://dbpedia.org]: 20769\\ [Geoname|http://www.geonames.org]: 20770\\ [Infoplease|http://www.infoplease.com]: 20770\\ [Britannica|http://www.britannica.com]: 21643\\ [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: 20770''__\\__Attempted Explanation__: Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''1,068 km\\''border countries: ''Egypt 208 km, Gaza Strip 59 km, Jordan 307 km, Lebanon 81 km, Syria 83 km, West Bank 330 km
||Coastline|273 km
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Dead Sea -408 m\\''highest point: ''Har Meron 1,208 m
||Highest Mountains|__Due to difference in mountain rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\ According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Har Karkom 1035 m; Mount Ramon 1035 m\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Har Meron 1208 m; Har Ramon 1037 m\\ \\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Terrain|Negev desert in the south; low coastal plain; central mountains; Jordan Rift Valley
||Natural Hazards|sandstorms may occur during spring and summer; droughts; periodic earthquakes
||Natural Resource|timber, potash, copper ore, natural gas, phosphate rock, magnesium bromide, clays, sand
||Land Use|''arable land: ''13.68%\\''permanent crops: ''3.69%\\''other: ''82.62% (2011)
||Climate|temperate; hot and dry in southern and eastern desert areas
||Irrigated Land|2,250 sq km (2004)
||Renewable Water Resources|1.78 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|limited arable land and natural freshwater resources pose serious constraints; desertification; air pollution from industrial and vehicle emissions; groundwater pollution from industrial and domestic waste, chemical fertilizers, and pesticides
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands, Whaling\\''signed, but not ratified: ''Marine Life Conservation
||Large Cities|__Due to difference in city rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Jerusalem; Tel Aviv; Haifa; Rishon LeZiyyon; Ashdod\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Jerusalem; West Jerusalem; Haifa; Tel Aviv; Ashdod\\\\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Cities|Geography/Asia/Israel/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|Lake Tiberias (Sea of Galilee) is an important freshwater source; the Dead Sea is the second saltiest body of water in the world (after Lake Assal in Djibouti); there are about 355 Israeli civilian sites including about 145 small outpost communities in the West Bank, 41 sites in the Golan Heights, and 32 in East Jerusalem (2010 est.)