The Golan Heights, [c] or simply the Golan, is a basaltic plateau at the southwest corner of Syria. It is bordered by the Yarmouk River in the south, the Sea of Galilee and Hula Valley in the west, the Anti-Lebanon mountains with Mount Hermon in the north and Wadi Raqqad in the east.

2025年1月24日 · The Golan Heights is a hilly area overlooking the upper Jordan River valley on the west. The area was part of extreme southwestern Syria until 1967, when it came under Israeli military occupation, and in December 1981 Israel unilaterally annexed the …

The area of the Golan Heights held by Israel is around 1,200 sq. km. (500 sq. mi.). There are over 40,000 people living there, less than half of them Jewish and the rest Druze and a small Alawite minority.

The Golan Heights is composed of two geologically distinct areas divided by the Sa'ar River: the Golan Heights proper (approximately 1,070 sq. km.) and the slopes of the Mount Hermon range (approximately 100 sq. km.).

2023年8月29日 · The Golan Heights is a rocky plateau in south-western Syria, about 60km (40 miles) south-west of Damascus and covers about 1,000 sq km. It has a political and strategic significance which...

The Golan Heights is a plateau and a disputed land between Syria and Israel, which captured the area in the Six Day War of 1967. [6] The United Nations has voted to ask Israel to pull its troops out of the Golan Heights. [7] Syria and Israel still have not signed a …

The area of the Golan is roughly 38 miles long and varies in width from 9 to 16 miles (444 square miles). The Banyas River flows through the region and the Yarmuk River separates the Golan from Jordan.

Golan Heights, Arabic Al-Jawlān, Hilly area, southwestern Syria. It overlooks the upper Jordan River valley; its maximum elevation is 7,297 ft (2,224 m). It was occupied by the Israeli army during the Six-Day War of 1967. After the Arab-Israeli war of 1973, a UN buffer zone was established between Syrians and Israelis in the heights. In 1981 ...

2018年5月29日 · Situated between south Lebanon, south Syria, and northern Israel, the Golan Heights (in Arabic, al Jawlan) have an average altitude of 3,300 feet (1,000 m) and they cover an area of approximately 700 square miles (1,800 sq km). Their north-south length is 40 miles (65 km) and their east-west dimension varies between 7 to 15 miles (12 to 25 km).

2021年10月26日 · The area of the Golan Heights held by Israel is around 1,200 sq. km. (500 sq. mi.). There are over 40,000 people living there, less than half of them Jewish and the rest Druze and a small Alawite minority.