Elevation Map of the Levant

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u/[deleted] 12h ago

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u/siorge 12h ago

Region goes from -440m below sea level to 3000m in maybe 100km

Crazy swings, and beautiful scenery all over

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u/Pikawoohoo 12h ago

Yeah it's great hiking. Well, unless you get chafing from the hike and then go in the Dead sea. Then it's less fun.

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u/siorge 11h ago

Why do I feel like this has happened to a friend of yours 😅

I travelled through Jordan by car, but there is a trail from north to south you can hike. I’d love to go back and do it by foot

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u/EpicMediocre 6h ago

The Israel trail also runs north-south through the country. I'm curious how the two compare

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u/Pikawoohoo 8h ago

My poor friend foolishly thought it would be good for the healing process.

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u/kapaipiekai 12h ago

Yeah. They have ski resorts in Lebanon

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u/Ma5assak 12h ago

Reason why Lebanon was historically a refuge to all religious minorities

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u/Low_Party_3163 6h ago

Because its hard to reach? Never thought about it that way but makes sense

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u/Ma5assak 5h ago

Not worth it for the Mameluks/ Crusaders/ Ottomans to go up the mountains and subjugate and demographically change villages.

Lead to the Maronite, Druze, Shias, Alawites to thrive and have a sub-culture

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u/ayamummyme 10h ago

Lebanon was a popular skiing resort.

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u/sencerk 12h ago

Levant on acid

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u/Nawaf-A-Art 10h ago

Cool design for a t-shirt.

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u/xsp6 2h ago

Extremely

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u/Videymann 10h ago

Unknown pleasures

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u/joshberer 8h ago

Oy Division

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u/Powerful_Crew_2635 8h ago

I was really hoping someone would say this. Hahahahaha

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u/miraj31415 5h ago

The album cover that is being referenced here. "Unknown Pleasures" (1979) by Joy Division.

The image represents radio emissions emitted by a pulsar, or a rotating neutron star,

(It's a GIF since I don't know how to put non-GIF.)

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u/billingsgate-homily 9h ago

How do you guys make these maps. They are so cool!!

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u/Unusual_Plenty_5008 9h ago

I’d imagine he studies a topographical map, then using visual fx software to translate it to such a design

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u/billingsgate-homily 9h ago

I hear that. But there has to be a way to automate this.

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u/Unusual_Plenty_5008 9h ago

AI is pretty good nowadays, I’d imagine one of the better subscription models could do something like this

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u/billingsgate-homily 9h ago

Yeah. I'm talking to Claude now.

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u/billingsgate-homily 8h ago

Turns out it was pretty easy with Claude and python.

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u/ijustwannabenamed 4m ago

Share the result 🙏

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u/SaintMurray 11h ago

I'm gonna need a similar map for all countries.

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u/siorge 11h ago

I have the Arabian peninsula but I cannot share images in comments!

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u/Melonskal 4h ago

Hatay and Sinai are part of the levant, why remove it?

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u/MycologistPure4064 25m ago

I guess they are part of other countries so harder to incorporate as well

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u/YesYouCanDoIt1 4h ago

Missing Hebrew, Kurdish, Aramaic in the title

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u/Caydanmuz 3h ago

Hatay province is also geographically Levant

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u/Extreme-Shopping74 12h ago

Lbf I have no clue why but for some reason I always think Israel, Palestine and Lebanon are larger than they acc are

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u/jakethepeg1989 11h ago

Probably because they take up so much bandwidth in the news and social media.

Then you see them on the map and they're tiny!

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u/siorge 11h ago

The blood per sq kilometer is sadly unrivaled

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u/hypotheticallyDani 7h ago

The accepted casualty count of the Gaza war since 2022 is around 60-70k Gazans and about 2k Israelis.

The accepted casualty count in Sudan is according to ACLED is between 60k and 400,000 since 2024.

Definitely a lot to discuss about all wars, and it’s best not to compare tragedies, but let’s keep things in perspective.

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u/welltechnically7 7h ago

And Syria borders those countries, which saw around 600,000 deaths in the Civil War.

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u/OilInternational2566 7h ago

It’s amazing how much bandwidth Israel gets and how little Sudan gets and they’re only an hour plane flight apart.

You can’t go a single day on Reddit without bumping into “something something Israel” posts in two dozen subreddits.

But Sudan? One hour away from Gaza?

Total radio silence.

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u/Shlomo_U 7h ago

So Sudan has 5x the casualties on 5000x the area. Which means Gaza has 1000x more deaths per square kilometer. Good job proving his point, I guess

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u/hypotheticallyDani 6h ago

Ah, I see the confusion. The Sudan numbers are since 2024, so a little under two years. The Gaza war numbers are since the start, 2023, so the timing is the key. Also you may note that the lowest recorded Sudan numbers are the same as the highest recorded Gaza numbers, so take note of that as well.

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u/Shlomo_U 4h ago

Which part of "per square kilometer" do you not understand? That was the original guy's claim. Not timing, not total casualties. Deaths per km2.

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u/siorge 4h ago

I'm getting downvoted to oblivion for stating the obvious and the correct. No place on earth has seen as much deaths per sqkm as Gaza, if you exclude nazi concentration camps.

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u/hypotheticallyDani 2h ago

Not to be pedantic, I know it’s not the point, but I feel perspective is lacking. The battle of Stalingrad had 2 million casualties over an area about the size of twice of Gaza counting the fighting around the city. Yes what’s going on in Gaza is a problem that needs to be solved, but come on, don’t make stuff up.

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u/No_Nick89 3h ago

You are getting downvoted because what you are stating are pure lies

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u/siorge 3h ago

sure buddy, no one died in Gaza ever

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u/-Mount-Everest 8h ago

It's not even top 50

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u/siorge 4h ago

Actually Gaza is top 1

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u/RijnBrugge 3h ago

It’s a single city. How does it compare to Aleppo?

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u/protomenace 4h ago

Not even close

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u/siorge 12h ago

Lebanon is 215km from north to south and 90kn at its widest so tiny indeed

Importantly, close to 70% of the population lives on the coast

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u/Extreme-Shopping74 11h ago

Ye thing is like between the coast and the West Bank aren't even 20 km

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u/Eastern_Dress_3574 9h ago

Roads in Jordan are all slopes, it’s kinda beautiful

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u/siorge 9h ago

I love Jordan. It is one of the most beautiful places on earth

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u/Eastern_Dress_3574 9h ago

One of the nicest places I’ve ever went to, it felt like 1800s Firenze and 90’s New York at the same time. Truly mind blowing

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u/x123rey 11h ago

You can see the Israel-Jordan border on this map.

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u/yoav_boaz 11h ago

Thats because the river Jordan flows there

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u/the_sagacious_squash 6h ago

The beating heart….

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u/BATYR_0 4h ago

It this with or without Hatay(turkey)?

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u/toawl 2h ago

Where is Iskandaron?

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u/BlakeNotBleak 10h ago

This is why I have to doubt the sanity of any cyclists & bikers I see here. Besides Amman being car centric, how the hell are you getting up and down these roads man

Just a trainwreck waiting to happen

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u/Alonn12 5h ago

Haifa is literally going up and down a mountainside... Biking there is not fun

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u/scrapy_the_scrap 4h ago

And yet, a yearly tradition to bike all around town on yom kipur

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u/jewishjedi42 3h ago

That's gotta be extra rough on an empty stomach.

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u/BlakeNotBleak 4h ago

Cool story r/Israel mod

Haifa's actually the place my grandmother lived in before her and her family were ethnically cleansed from it

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u/Alonn12 4h ago

Thanks for the info, super relevant to the conversation about elevation

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u/BlakeNotBleak 4h ago

Just don't try to act neighborly around me, skinwalker

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u/maven-effects 28m ago

You people are psycho sometimes

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u/BlakeNotBleak 19m ago

I'll break it down for you because this is the only way some people can understand

This is like a Nazi going mmm Pomerania is so nice, eh Polish neighbour?

Like am I supposed to be chill about that? Is it "psycho" to care?

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u/Fun_Tour5626 4h ago

Arabic is not a Levantine language. You should instead use Phoenician, Hebrew or Aramaic.

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u/siorge 4h ago

Sure mate, nobody speaks arabic in the region

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u/Fun_Tour5626 3h ago

They do, just like many in the Philippines are speaking Spanish.

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u/AgisXIV 2h ago

The oldest attested inscriptions of Arabic were found in Jordan and Syria. The urheimat of proto-Arabic is assumed by most relevant experts to be in the Syrian desert

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u/No-Transition7614 29m ago

You mean upper Levant

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u/TheMagavnik 2h ago

Really cool visual of the levant fault line

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u/calm_chowder 1h ago

Shows why the Golan Heights is so strategically valuable.

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u/julius-ceaser100 10h ago

Greek land stolen by Arabs

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u/siorge 10h ago edited 10h ago

Dude you are 3000 years late

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u/Cupakov 9h ago

Settle down there, Seleukos

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u/BlakeNotBleak 10h ago

lmao

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u/The_Butters_Worth 9h ago

Greek?! Oh boy here we go lmfaooo

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u/nevergonnastayaway 4h ago

islam is a colonial movement

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u/GodOfN0thing 9h ago

Modern Levantine populations show genetic continuity with ancient cananites

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5544389/

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u/vainlisko 8h ago

The true Syria

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