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Tel Aviv District

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Cities
  
10

Regional Councils
  
0

Area
  
186 km²

Capital
  
Tel Aviv

Local Councils
  
2

ISO 3166 code
  
IL-TA

Population
  
1.35 million (2014)

Tel Aviv District

Destinations
  
Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Herzliya, Israel National Trail

Clubs and Teams
  
Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C., Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C.

Points of interest
  
Yarkon Park, Palmach Museum, Beit Hatfutsot, Eretz Israel Museum, Yitzhak Rabin Center

Colleges and Universities
  
Tel Aviv University, Bar‑Ilan University, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Afeka College of Engineering, Ono Academic College

The Tel Aviv District (Hebrew: מָחוֹז תֵּל אָבִיב‎, Arabic: منطقة تل أبيب‎‎) is the smallest and most densely populated of six administrative districts of Israel with a population of 1.35 million residents. It is 99.0% Jewish and 1.0% Arab (0.7% Muslim, 0.3% Christian). It is also the only of the six districts to simultaneously not border the West Bank, Gaza Strip, or any international border, instead being surrounded on the north, east, and south by the Central District and on the west by the Mediterranean Sea. The population density of Tel Aviv district is 7,258/km2.

Map of Tel Aviv District, Israel

The district's capital is Tel Aviv and the metropolitan area created by the Tel Aviv district and its neighboring cities is locally named Gush Dan.

References

Tel Aviv District Wikipedia