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Map 1: United Nations-derived boundary map of Israel and the Israeli-occupied territories (2007, updated to 2018) The modern borders of Israel exist as the result both of past wars and of diplomatic agreements between the State of Israel and its neighbours, as well as an effect of the agreements among colonial powers ruling in the region before Israel's creation.
Israel–Jordan relations. Israel–Jordan relations are the diplomatic, economic and cultural relations between Israel and Jordan. The two countries share a land border, with three border crossings: Yitzhak Rabin/Wadi Araba Crossing, Jordan River Crossing and the Allenby/King Hussein Bridge Crossing, that connects the West Bank with Jordan ...
Geography of Jordan. Coordinates: 31°00′N 36°00′E. A map of Jordan. Jordan is situated geographically in West Asia, south of Syria, west of Iraq, northwest of Saudi Arabia, east of Israel and the Palestinian territory of the West Bank. The area is also referred to as the Middle or Near East.
Modern Israel is bounded to the north by Lebanon, the northeast by Syria, the east by Jordan and the West Bank, and to the southwest by Egypt. To the west of Israel is the Mediterranean Sea, which makes up the majority of Israel's 273 km (170 mi) coastline and the Gaza Strip. Israel has a small coastline on the Red Sea in the south.
Palestine (region) Palestine [i] is a geographical region in West Asia. It is usually considered to include modern-day Israel and the State of Palestine, though some definitions also include parts of northwestern Jordan. Other historical names for the region include Canaan, the Promised Land, the Land of Israel, or the Holy Land .
The Israel–Jordan peace treaty (formally the " Treaty of Peace Between the State of Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan "), [Note 1] sometimes referred to as the Wadi Araba Treaty, [1] is an agreement that ended the state of war that has existed between the two countries since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and established mutual ...
Transjordan, the East Bank, [1] or the Transjordanian Highlands ( Arabic: شرق الأردن ), is the part of the Southern Levant east of the Jordan River, mostly contained in present-day Jordan . The region, known as Transjordan, was controlled by numerous powers throughout history. During the early modern period, the region of Transjordan ...
Israel's 1949 Green Line (dark green) and demilitarized zones (teal) The Green Line or 1949 Armistice border [1] is the demarcation line set out in the 1949 Armistice Agreements between the armies of Israel and those of its neighbors ( Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. It served as the de facto borders of the ...