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There are six main administrative districts of Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
, known in Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
 as mehozot (??????; singular: mahoz) and fifteen sub-districts known as nafot (????; singular: nafa). Each sub-district is further divided into natural regions, of which there are 50.

The Golan sub-district, which contains 4 natural regions, is included in this amount, although it is not recognized by the UN to be Israeli territory.






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There are six main administrative districts of Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
, known in Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
 as mehozot (??????; singular: mahoz) and fifteen sub-districts known as nafot (????; singular: nafa). Each sub-district is further divided into natural regions, of which there are 50.

The Golan sub-district, which contains 4 natural regions, is included in this amount, although it is not recognized by the UN to be Israeli territory. The Judea and Samaria Area, however, is not included, since Israel has not fully applied its jurisdiction there.

Jerusalem District

Jerusalem District
Jerusalem District

The Jerusalem District is one of Districts of Israel of Israel. Its land area is 652 km? . Its population of 868,500 includes 68.4% Jews and 29.8% Arabs ....
 (Mehoz Yerushalayim). Population: 868,500

District capital: Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....


North District

North District
North District (Israel)

The North District , is one of Israel's Districts of Israel. The North District has a land area of 4,478 km?, which increases to 4,638  km? when both land and water are included....
 (Mehoz HaTzafon). Population: 1,202,600

District capital: Nazareth
Nazareth

Nazareth is the capital and largest Cities in Israel in the North District . It also serves as an unofficial Arab capital for Israel's Arab citizens of Israel who make up the vast majority of the population there....


  • Zefat (sub-district) population: 98,000
  • Kinneret (sub-district) population: 98,100
  • Yizre'el (sub-district) population: 430,400
  • Akko (sub-district) population: 536,300
  • Golan (sub-district) population: 39,800


Haifa District

Haifa District
Haifa District

Haifa District is an administrative district surrounding the city of Haifa, Israel. The district is one of Districts of Israel of Israel, and the capital of it is Haifa....
 (Mehoz Heifa). Population: 865,200

District capital: Haifa
Haifa

Haifa is the largest city in North District Israel, and the List of Israeli cities in the country, with a population of over 264,900. Haifa has a mixed population of Jews and Arabs....


  • Haifa (sub-district) population: 529,500
  • Hadera (sub-district) population: 335,700


Center District

Center District
Center District (Israel)

The Center District of Israel is one of Districts of Israel, including most of the Sharon plain region. The district capital is Ramla. The district's largest city is Rishon LeZion....
 (Mehoz HaMerkaz). Population: 1,689,600

District capital: Ramla
Ramla

Ramla , is a city in central Israel with a mixed Arab and Jewish population. Ramla was founded circa 705?715 CE by the Umayyad Caliph Suleiman ibn Abed al-Malik....


  • Sharon (sub-district) population: 371,900
  • Petah Tikva (sub-district) population: 578,000
  • Ramla (sub-district) population: 267,600
  • Rehovot (sub-district) population: 472,100


Tel Aviv District

Tel Aviv District
Tel Aviv District

The Tel Aviv District is one of Districts of Israel of Israel with a population of 1.2 million residents. It is 99.0% Jewish and 1.0% Arab . The district's capital is Tel Aviv and the metropolitan area created by the Tel Aviv district and its neighboring cities is named Gush Dan....
 (Mehoz Tel Aviv). Population: 1,204,400

District capital: Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....


South District

South District
South District (Israel)

The South District is one of Israel's Districts of Israel, and is the largest in terms of land area as well as the most sparsely populated. It covers most of the Negev desert, as well as the Arabah valley....
 (Mehoz HaDarom). Population: 1,201,200

District Capital: Beersheba
Beersheba

Beersheba is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. Often referred to as the "Capital of the Negev", it is the seventh-largest city in Israel with a population of 186,100....
  • Ashkelon (sub district) population: 456,000
  • Be'er Sheva (sub-district) population: 565,300


Judea and Samaria Area

Judea and Samaria Area
Judea and Samaria

Judea and Samaria is the official Israeli term roughly corresponding to the territory usually known outside Israel as the West Bank. Jordan occupied the territory and annexed it in 1950....
 (Ezor Yehuda VeShomron). Population: 285,000 Israeli citizens (for Palestinians see Demographics of the West Bank)

Largest Israeli City: Modi'in Illit
Modi'in Illit

Modi'in Illit is an Israeli settlement and city in the foothills of the Judean Mountains, midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. It is often referred to as Kiryat Sefer , the name of the settlement?s original neighborhood....


This area is the geographical classification for Israeli settlement
Israeli settlement

Israeli settlements are communities inhabited by Israelis in territory that was captured during the 1967 Six-Day War. Such settlements currently exist in the West Bank, which is partially under Israeli military administration and partially under the control of the Palestinian National Authority, and in the Golan Heights, which are under Isr...
 in the West Bank
West Bank

The West Bank is the eastern Part of the Palestinian territories on the west bank of the River Jordan in the Middle East. To the west, north, and south the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel....
 other than East Jerusalem
East Jerusalem

East Jerusalem refers to the part of Jerusalem captured by Jordan in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and subsequently by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War....
 and the former Israeli Jordanian no man's land area near Latrun
Latrun

Latrun is a strategic hilltop in the Ayalon Valley overlooking the road to Jerusalem. It is located 15 kilometers west of Jerusalem and 14 kilometers southeast of Ramla....
. The area has been under Israeli control since the 1967 Six-Day War
Six-Day War

In the Six-Day War of June 5-10, 1967, Israel defeated the armies of the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. In Arabic, the war is called ....
 but not annexed by Israel. Many Israelis consider it part of the Land of Israel
Land of Israel

For other uses, see Israel The Land of Israel is the region which, according to the Hebrew Bible, was promised by God to the descendants of Abraham through his son Isaac and to the Israelites, descendants of Jacob, Abraham's grandson....
, but it is not considered part of the state of Israel by any nation or the UN. See Palestinian National Authority
Palestinian National Authority

The Palestinian National Authority is the administrative organization established to government parts of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip....
 for the Palestinian administration.

See also

  • Israel
    Israel

    Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
  • Geography of Israel
    Geography of Israel

    The geography of Israel is diverse, with desert conditions in the south, and snow-capped mountains in the north. Israel is located at at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea in the western Asia....
  • List of cities in Israel
    List of cities in Israel

    The following list of Israeli cities is based on the current index of the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Within Local government in Israel, an urban municipality can be granted a City council by the Israeli Ministry of Interior when its population exceeds 20,000....


External links

  • detailed breakdown of each district, sub-district, and natural region.