Contains the lowest exposed land on Earth at the Dead Sea shore, roughly 430 m below sea level.
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Israel
State of Israel ยท ุฅุณุฑุงุฆูู
Asia
ยท Western Asia
0Population
20.77Kkmยฒ of land
$43.59KGDP / person
JerusalemCapital
- ISO codes
- IL ยท ISR
- Density
- 436 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Arabic, Hebrew
- Currency
- Israeli new shekel (ILS)
- Dial code
- +972
- Internet domain
- .il
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 30.9110ยฐ N, 34.8480ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Israeli
- UN region
- Western Asia
- Economy
- Developed region: nonG7
- Income group
- High income: OECD
- Total GDP
- $394.65B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 5
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By the numbers
How Israel stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
97th
of 242 ยท 0.12% of world population
Land area
153rd
of 242 ยท 0.01% of world land
GDP per person
35th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
27th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Israel
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 9,053,300 people, the 97th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.12 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 20,770 kmยฒ, making it the 153rd largest country here - about 8 times the size of Luxembourg.
Population density is about 436 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Jerusalem, at 31.78ยฐ N, 35.21ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 1,029,300.
Shares land borders with 4 countries: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Jerusalem.
The currency is the Israeli new shekel (ILS, symbol โช).
Has 2 official languages: Arabic and Hebrew.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Jerusalem
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UTC+03:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
32.0819ยฐ N, 34.7681ยฐ E
3.11M
2
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Jerusalem
Jerusalem
31.7784ยฐ N, 35.2066ยฐ E
1.03M
Land neighbours
4 countries share a border with Israel.