West BankGeography

Location:	Middle East, west of Jordan
Geographic coordinates:	32 00 N, 35 15 E
Map references:	Middle East
Area:	total: 5,860 sq km land: 5,640 sq km water: 220 sq km note: includes West Bank, Latrun Salient, and the northwest quarter of the Dead Sea, but excludes Mt. Scopus; East Jerusalem and Jerusalem No Man's Land are also included only as a means of depicting the entire area occupied by Israel in 1967
Area - comparative:	slightly smaller than Delaware
Land boundaries:	total: 404 km border countries: Israel 307 km, Jordan 97 km
Coastline:	0 km (landlocked)
Maritime claims:	none (landlocked)
Climate:	temperate; temperature and precipitation vary with altitude, warm to hot summers, cool to mild winters
Terrain:	mostly rugged dissected upland, some vegetation in west, but barren in east
Elevation extremes:	lowest point: Dead Sea -408 m highest point: Tall Asur 1,022 m
Natural resources:	arable land
Land use:	arable land: 16.9% permanent crops: 18.97% other: 64.13% (2001)
Irrigated land:	NA sq km
Natural hazards:	droughts
Environment - current issues:	adequacy of fresh water supply; sewage treatment
Geography - note:	landlocked; highlands are main recharge area for Israel's coastal aquifers; there are 244 West Bank settlements and 29 East Jerusalem settlements in addition to at least 20 occupied outposts (August 2003 est.)

More about West Bank:

The World Factbook 2005, by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

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