Editing Geography of Israel (section)

===Coastal plain===
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The Israeli Coastal Plain stretches from the Lebanese border in the north to [[Gaza City|Gaza]] in the south, interrupted only by Cape Carmel at [[Haifa Bay]].<ref name="topog">{{cite web | url=http://countrystudies.us/israel/35.htm | title=Israel Topography | publisher=U.S. Library of Congress | access-date=8 April 2008}}</ref> It is about {{convert|40|km|mi|0|sp=us}} wide at Gaza and narrows toward the north to about {{convert|5|km|mi|1|sp=us}} at the Lebanese border.<ref name="topog" /> The region is [[fertility (soil)|fertile]] and [[humidity|humid]] (historically [[malaria]]l) and is known for its [[citrus]] [[orchard]]s and [[wine|viticulture]].<ref name="topog" /> The plain is traversed by several short streams. From north to south these are: Kishon, Hadera, Alexander, Poleg, and Yarkon. All of these streams were badly polluted, but in the last ten years much work has been done to clean them up.{{dubious|Starting to count – when?|date=January 2017}} Today the Kishon, Alexander and Yarkon again flow year round, and also have parks along their banks.<ref name="restoration of rivers">{{cite web |url= http://www.sviva.gov.il/bin/en.jsp?enPage=e_BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=Zone&enDispWho=Examples_River&enZone=River_Restoration& |title=River Restoration |work=Israel Ministry of the Environment |access-date=29 July 2011}}</ref>

Geographically, the region is divided into five sub-regions. The northernmost section lays between the Lebanese border, the [[Western Galilee]] to the east, and the sea. It stretches from [[Rosh HaNikra (kibbutz)|Rosh HaNikra]] in the north and down to [[Haifa]], Israel's third-largest city. It is a fertile region, and off the coast there are many small islands.<ref name="go">{{cite web |url= http://www.goisrael.com/Tourism_Eng/Tourist+Information/Discover+Israel/Geographic+Regions/The+coastal+plain.htm |title= The coastal plain |access-date= 26 January 2008 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110906215023/http://goisrael.com/Tourism_Eng/Tourist+Information/Discover+Israel/Geographic+Regions/The+coastal+plain.htm |archive-date= 6 September 2011 |url-status= dead }}</ref> Along the [[Mount Carmel]] range is Hof HaCarmel, or the Carmel Coastal Plain. It stretches from the point where Mount Carmel almost touches the sea, at Haifa, and down to [[Nahal Taninim]], a stream that marks the southern limit of the Carmel range. The [[Sharon Plain]] is the next section, running from Nahal Taninim (south of [[Zikhron Ya'akov]]) to [[Tel Aviv]]'s [[Yarkon River]]. This area is Israel's most densely populated. South of this, running to Nahal Shikma, is the Central Coastal Plain, also known as the Western [[Negev]]. The last segment is the Southern Coastal Plain, which extends south around the [[Gaza Strip]]. It is divided into two – in the north, the [[HaBesor Stream|Besor]] region, a [[savanna]]-type area with a relatively large number of communities, and south of it the Agur-[[Halutza]] region, which is very sparsely populated.<ref name="go" />