Cities 10 Regional Councils 0 Area 186 km² | Local Councils 2 Population 1.35 million (2014) | |
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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(Text) CC BY-SA