Sunday, July 25, 2021

David and Goliath Comparison of Israel and the World's Sizes

 Nadene Goldfoot                                         




     Middle East, African neighbors and Israel-Comparing Sizes 

Jerusalem consists of 48.3 square miles with a population of 874,186 in 2016

Tel Aviv consists of 20.08 square miles with a population of 435,855 in 2016

Gaza consists of 140.9 square miles with a population of 2,048,000 in 2020

The total area of the State of Israel is 22,145 sq.km (8,630 sq. miles),, now listed as 8,550 square miles of which 21,671 sq. km is land area. Israel is some 420 km in length and about 115 km across at the widest point. The country is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the southwest and the Mediterranean Sea to the west.  

                                                 

                           Ashkelon National Park

Ashkelon National Park is an Israeli national park along the shore of the Mediterranean Sea southwest of the city of Ashkelon. The national park is situated in the heart of ancient Ashkelon. Ashkelon or Ashqelon, also known as Ascalon, is a coastal city in the Southern District of Israel on the Mediterranean coast, 50 kilometres (31 miles) south of Tel Aviv, and 13 kilometres (8 miles) north of the border with the Gaza Strip. The ancient seaport of Ashkelon dates back to the Neolithic Age.                                 

                                            Mt. Heron:  

15 miles of hairpin turns make the 5,400-foot ascent too treacherous during inclement weather, but when the resort opens, Israeli and foreign tourists flock to see the white powder.  It shuts down when it snows.  

Mountains and plains, fertile land, and desert are often minutes apart. The width of the country, from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Dead Sea in the east, can be crossed by car in about 90 minutes; and the trip from Metulla, in the far North, to Eilat at the country's southern tip takes about nine hours.

                                                


ISRAEL'S LAND MASS IS ABOUT 1/625th (1/6) of 1% the size of the Arab World

5.5 million Israeli Jews:  300 million Middle Eastern Arabs and Muslims in 2010

Population by 2020, Says PA Report:  

The estimated number of Palestinians in the world at the end of 2012 is 11.6 million, of whom 4.4 million are in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem and 1.4 million live inside Israel.

Lebanon is 4,036 square miles, making it smaller than Israel ; population of 6,856            million in 2019    

Israel's territory is 8,019 square miles, making is smaller than : 

El Salvador of 8,123 square miles

                     


 New Jersey of 8,729 or 8,722,58 square miles to Israel of 8,355 square miles/ then 10,762 square miles including land not included today

Golan Heights from 448 to 695 square miles

Gaza Strip 139 square miles

West Bank of 2,262 square miles

Taiwan of 13,731 square miles

Jordan of 34,495 square miles

Syria of 71,498 square miles

United Kingdom of 94,525 square miles

                    


                                                                

Israel is about 18 times smaller than California.

California, USA of 158,302 square miles   

  The population of California is ~37.3 million people (28.6 million fewer people live in Israel).

Iraq of 169,235 of square miles

Morocco of 172,410 square miles

France of 211, 209 of square miles

United Arab Emirates (UAE)of 256.4 square miles

Turkey of 302,535 square miles

                      


Egypt of 390,100 square miles

Iran of 636,400 square miles

Sudan of 728,215 square miles:

   It is the third-largest country on the continent (after Algeria and Democratic Republic of the Congo) and the fifteenth-largest in the world.

Saudi Arabia of 830,000 square miles

                    


Algeria of 919,595 square miles

   the ninth-most populous country in Africa.

                             


United States of 3.797 million square miles

                                            

Resource:

Israel 101 produce by StandWithus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Heights

https://maps.cga.harvard.edu/cmes/Map_02.pdf

https://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/AboutIsrael/Maps/Pages/Israel-Size-and-Dimension.aspx

https://www.timesofisrael.com/welcome-to-mount-hermon-israels-only-ski-mountain-it-shuts-down-when-it-snows/

https://www.haaretz.com/pa-palestinians-to-outnumber-jews-by-2020-1.5285402

https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk02z59MbnONRaYV6jTN9uqhht-Jg7Q:1627227820226&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=size+of+new+jersey+in+square+miles+compared+to+israel,+pictures&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjEoMWByP7xAhVJ-Z

https://www.haaretz.com/pa-palestinians-to-outnumber-jews-by-2020-1.5285402

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx2tALUrOyE


                                                           




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