Galilee

==Subregions==
The definition of Galilee varies depending on the period, author, and point of view (geological, geographical, administrative). Ancient Galilee consisted in broad terms of the Upper and Lower Galilee. Today the northwestern part of the Upper Galilee is in Southern Lebanon, with the rest being in Israel. The Israeli Galilee is often divided into these subregions, which often overlap:
* [[Upper Galilee]] extends from the Beit HaKerem Valley northwards into southern Lebanon. Its eastern border is the [[Hula Valley]] and the Sea of Galilee separating it from the Golan Heights. To the west it reaches to the Coastal Plain which separates it from the Mediterranean.
* [[Lower Galilee]] covers the area north of the Valleys ([[Jezreel Valley|Jezreel]], [[Harod Valley|Harod]] and [[Beth Shean Valley]]) and south of the [[Beit HaKerem Valley]]. Its borders to the east on the [[Jordan Rift Valley]]. It contains the Arab city of [[Nazareth]] and the village of [[Cana]].
* The "[[Galilee Panhandle]]" ({{lang-he|אצבע הגליל}}, ''Etzba HaGalil'', lit. "Finger of Galilee") is a [[Salient (geography)|panhandle]] along the [[Hulah Valley]], squeezed between the Lebanese border and the Golan Heights; it contains the towns of [[Metulla]] and [[Qiryat Shemona]], the [[Dan River (Israel)|Dan]] and part of the [[Nahal Hermon|Banias]] rivers.

The following subregions are sometimes regarded, from different points of view, as distinct from the Galilee, for instance the entire Jordan Valley including the Sea of Galilee and its continuation to the south as one geological and geographical unit, and the Jezreel, Harod, and Beit She'an valleys as "the northern valleys".
* The [[Hula Valley]]
* The [[Korazim Plateau]]
* The [[Sea of Galilee]] and its valley
* The [[Jordan Valley (Middle East)|Jordan Valley]] from the southern tip of the Sea of Galilee down to Beit She'an
* The [[Jezreel Valley]], including in its eastern part, the Harod Valley, which stretches between [[Afula]] and the Beit She'an Valley
* The [[Beit She'an Valley]] at the junction of the Jordan Valley and the extended Jezreel Valley
* [[Mount Gilboa]]
* The '''Western Galilee''' is a modern Israeli term, which in its minimal definition refers to the coastal plain just west of the Upper Galilee, also known as Plain of Asher or Plain of the Galilee, which stretches from north of Acre to [[Rosh HaNikra (kibbutz)|Rosh HaNikra]] on the [[Blue Line (Lebanon)|Israel-Lebanon border]], and in the common broad definition adds the western part of Upper Galilee, and usually the northwestern part of Lower Galilee as well, corresponding more or less to Acre sub-district or the [[Northern District (Israel)|Northern District]].