Tel Aviv District

Tel Aviv District
Tel Aviv District
	District of Israel
- transcription(s)
• Hebrew	מָחוֹז תֵּל אָבִיב
Cities	10
Local Councils	2
Regional Councils	0
Capital	Tel Aviv
Government
• Appointee	Carmit Fenton
Area
• Total	186 km2 (72 sq mi)

The Tel Aviv District (Hebrew: מָחוֹז תֵּל אָבִיב;) is the smallest and most densely populated of six administrative districts of Israel with a population of 1.35 million residents.^[2] It is 98.9% Jewish and 1.10% Arab (0.7% Muslim, 0.4% Christian).

The district's capital is Tel Aviv, one of the two largest cities in Israel and the country's economic, business and technological capital. The metropolitan area created by the Tel Aviv district and its neighboring cities is locally named Gush Dan.

It is the only one of the six districts not to border either the occupied West Bank or an international border, 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 7,259/km2.

Administrative sub-regions[]

Cities	Local Councils
Tel Aviv-Yafo Bat Yam Bnei Brak Givatayim Herzliya Holon Kiryat Ono Or Yehuda Ramat Gan Ramat HaSharon	Azor Kfar Shmaryahu

List of cities and towns in Tel Aviv district[]

Pop Rank	Name	Population	Land Area (Dunams)	Founded	City Since
1	Tel Aviv-Yafo	438,818	51,788	1909	1921
2	Holon	190,838	18,927	1940	1950
3	Bnei Brak	188,964	7,343	1924	1950
4	Ramat Gan	153,674	13,229	1921	1950
5	Bat Yam	129,100	8,167	1926	1958
6	Herzliya	93,116	21,850	1924	1960
7	Giv'atayim	58,509	3,246	1922	1959
8	Ramat HaSharon	45,066	16,792	1923	2002
10	Kiryat Ono	38,596	4,112	1939	1992
9	Or Yehuda	36,536	5,141	1949	1988
11	Azor	12,570	2,415	1948
12	Kfar Shmaryahu	1,911	2,665	1937
13	Glil Yam (Hof HaSharon RC)	500	-	1943
14	Mikveh Israel	432	3,300	1870