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The Southern District ( Hebrew: מחוז הדרום, Meḥoz HaDarom; Arabic: لواء الجنوب) is one of Israel 's six administrative districts, the largest in terms of land area but the most sparsely populated. It covers most of the Negev desert, as well as the Arava valley. The population of the Southern District is 1,086,240 and its ...
Eilat is located at the southernmost tip of Israel, at the southern end of the Arabah and the Negev Desert, adjacent to the Egyptian resort city of Taba to the south, the Jordanian port city of Aqaba to the east, and within sight of Haql, Saudi Arabia, across the gulf to the southeast. Eilat hosts numerous hotels, holiday resorts, and beaches.
Pages in category "Cities in Southern District (Israel)" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The city is home to the largest Moroccan and Karaite Jewish communities in Israel, [4] [5] and to the largest Georgian Jewish community in the world. [6] According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, Ashdod had a population of 226,827 in 2022, [1] with an area of 47,242 dunams (47.242 km 2; 18.240 sq mi).
Dimona ( Hebrew: דִּימוֹנָה, Arabic: ديمونا) is an Israeli city in the Negev desert, 30 kilometres (19 mi) to the south-east of Beersheba and 35 kilometres (22 mi) west of the Dead Sea above the Arava valley in the Southern District of Israel. In 2022 its population was 36,776. [1]
Name meaning. Boulevards/avenues. Sderot ( Hebrew: שְׂדֵרוֹת, pronounced [sdeˈʁot], lit. 'boulevards'; Arabic: سديروت, sometimes Romanized as "Sederot" [ 2]) is a western Negev city and former development town in the Southern District of Israel. In 2022, it had a population of 33,002.
That year, the city became part of the then-newly-established state of Israel. As of 2016, the city is a major seaport located on Israel's Mediterranean coastline in the Bay of Haifa covering 63.7 km 2 (24.6 sq mi). It lies about 90 km (56 mi) north of Tel Aviv and is the major regional center of northern Israel.
Often referred to as the "Capital of the Negev", it is the centre of the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in Israel, the eighth-most populous Israeli city with a population of 214,162, [1] and the second-largest city in area (after Jerusalem), with a total area of 117,500 dunams (45 mi 2 / 117.5 km 2).