What is the land mass of Israel?

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Canaan or Kn�ʕan (Hebrew כְּנַעַן, Arabic کنعان, Septuagint Greek Χαναάν) is an ancient term for a region roughly corresponding to present-day Israel/Palestine including the West Bank, western Jordan, southern and coastal Syria and Lebanon continuing up to the border of modern Turkey.

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Various Canaanite sites have been excavated by archaeologists, most notably the Canaanite town of Ugarit, which was rediscovered in 1928. Much of the modern knowledge about the Canaanites stems from excavation in this area.

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Canaan is in the Middle East.

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The State of Israel is highly diverse in terms of geographies and biomes. The country is wholly bordered on the West by the Mediterranean and to the right the banks of the Jordan River. The South has the great Negev desert, while the its northeast has the high elevations and snow capped mountains of the Golan. Israel also spectacular canyons and badlands outside of Jerusalem, in addition to the Dead Sea and its unique chemistry and buoyancy. To its south the Red Sea port and shores of Eilat have coastal and marine landforms harboring immense biodiversity.

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If the term "mother land of Israel" means the land from which the ancient Israelites originated, the biblical answer would be the birthplace of Abraham - Mesopotamia, while the scholarly answer would be Canaan.

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Wayne T. Pitard (The Oxford History of the Biblical World, Before Israel) says that during the second millennium BCE, Canaan was the name often used for Palestine (the area west of the Jordan River), whose northern boundary fluctuated between southern and central Lebanon.

However, modern scholars generally use the term in referring to the wider region in Syria-Palestine where a substantial cultural continuum defined as Canaanite can be discerned. Encompassing western Palestine, most of Lebanon, and coastal Syria as far north as Ugarit, this more extensive area was never considered a political or cultural unit by its ancient inhabitants.

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It is in the Middle East between Egypt and Jordan, just south of Lebanon.

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The total area of Israel is slightly larger than Massachusetts, and slightly smaller than New Jersey.

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Part of the Ottoman Turkish Empire's did. Other parts of it

became Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, and Jordan.

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The land size is about 8,000 sq. miles