page_title: Israeli coastal plain
section_title: Regions
hierarchical_section_title: Israeli coastal plain / Regions
caption_attribution_description: English: View of the Tel Aviv beachfront from Jaffa.
context_page_description: Israel's Coastal Plain is the coastal plain along Israel's Mediterranean Sea coast, extending 187 kilometres north to south. It is a geographical region defined morphologically by the sea, in terms of topography and soil, and also in its climate, flora and fauna. It is narrow in the north and broadens considerably towards the south, and is continuous with the exception of the short section where Mount Carmel reaches almost all the way to the sea. The Coastal Plain is bordered to the east by - north to south - the topographically higher regions of the Galilee, the low and flat Jezreel Valley, the Carmel range, the mountains of Samaria, the hill country of Judea known as the Shephelah, and the Negev Mountains in the south. To the north it is separated from the coastal plain of Lebanon by the cliffs of Rosh HaNikra, which jut out into the sea from the Galilee mountains, but to the south it continues into the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula.
context_section_description: The coastal plain includes the following geographical regions (from north to south):
caption: Tel Aviv's coastline (seen from Jaffa) is highly urbanized
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