Size: About 20,700 square kilometers. Occupied territories comprise additional 7,477 square kilometers: West Bank, 5,879 Gaza Strip, 378 East Jerusalem, annexed in July 1980, 70 and Golan Heights, annexed in December 1981, 1,150.

Topography: Four general areas: coastal plaÍÍÍÍin--fertile, humid, and thickly populated--stretches along Mediterranean Sea central highlands including Hills of Galilee in north with country's highest elevation at Mt. Meron (1,208 meters), and arid Judean Hills in south Jordan Rift Valley with lowest point (399 meters below sea level) at Dead Sea and Negev Desert, which accounts for about half Israel's area.

Data as of December 1988