Israel
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Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- IL
- ISO alpha-3
- ISR
- ISO numeric
- 376
- FIPS 10-4
- IS
- GeoNames ID
- 294640
Key facts
- Capital
- Jerusalem
- Area
- 20,770 km²
- Population
- 8,883,800
- Currency
- Shekel (ILS)
- Calling code
- +972
- Top-level domain
- .il
- Official languages
- he,ar-IL,en-IL,
Continent
- Name
- Asia
- Code
- AS
- In this dataset
- 51 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 31.5
- Longitude
- 34.75
- Min latitude
- 29.48969147300005
- Min longitude
- 34.24835085700005
- Max latitude
- 33.406721700000006
- Max longitude
- 35.88807255000012
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/IL?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 20770,
"capital": "Jerusalem",
"continent_code": "AS",
"currency_code": "ILS",
"iso3_code": "ISR",
"iso_code": "IL",
"name": "Israel",
"population": 8883800
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/IL/regions/v1/cities?country=IL/v1/postal-codes?country=IL/v1/timezones?country=IL
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- إسرائيل
- Chinese
- 以色列
- English
- Israel
- French
- Israël
- German
- Israel
- Hindi
- इजराइल
- Italian
- Israele
- Japanese
- イスラエル
- Korean
- 이스라엘
- Portuguese
- Israel
- Russian
- Израиль
- Spanish
- Israel
- Total language variants
- 147
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Asia/Jerusalem | UTC+02:00 | UTC+03:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- #######
- Pattern
^(\d{7}|\d{5})$
First-level administrative regions
- Central District
- Tel Aviv District
- Northern District
- Jerusalem
- Southern District
- Haifa
- Judea and Samaria Area
7 of 7 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Jerusalem | 971,800 |
| Tel Aviv | 432,892 |
| West Jerusalem | 400,000 |
| Haifa | 285,316 |
| Rishon LeTsiyyon | 258,535 |
| Petaẖ Tiqva | 253,529 |
| Netanya | 228,204 |
| Ashdod | 226,838 |
| Bnei Brak | 214,444 |
| H̱olon | 196,282 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 1,846
- First-level regions
- 7
- Postal codes
- 0
- Name languages
- 147
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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