Map of Israel

Israel is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 31.5° N, 35.1° E. It shares land borders with 5 countries — Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria — and also has its own coastline. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Israel is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Israel shares land frontiers with the following 5 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Israel covers about 21,937 km² (8,470 sq mi). That makes it the 149th-largest country in the world by area and the 39th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 10 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 10,134,800, the 94th-largest in the world and the 31st-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.2% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Israel has an average population density of about 462 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 31st by population and 39th by area.

The seat of government is Jerusalem, and the official currency is the Israeli new shekel (ILS, ₪), and the main official languages are Arabic and Hebrew. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+02:00.

Israel carries the ISO country codes IL and ISR, dials on the international calling code +972 and uses the .il internet domain.

Israel shares its land borders with 5 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Egypt (capital Cairo, about 107,271,260 people), Syria (capital Damascus, about 25,620,000 people), Jordan (capital Amman, about 11,734,000 people), Lebanon (capital Beirut, about 5,490,000 people) and Palestine (capital Ramallah, about 5,483,450 people).

By area, Israel is larger than 2 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 31.5° N, 35.1° E and opens at zoom level 7, framing Israel within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Jerusalem. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Israel lies about 3,493 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Israel keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+02:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +02:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Israeli new shekel (ILS, ₪).

The official languages are Arabic and Hebrew, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +972 and websites commonly use the .il internet domain.

In short, Israel is a coastal country in Asia, sharing land borders with 5 countries. Its capital is Jerusalem. Israel has a population of about 10,134,800 and covers around 21,937 km² (8,470 sq mi), ranking it 94th in the world by population and 149th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Israel.

The flag of Israel has a white field with a blue hexagram — the Magen David — centered between two equal horizontal blue bands situated near the top and bottom edges of the field.

The flag of Israel is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.