Modern-day Nazareth is nestled in a hollow plateau some 1,200 feet (350 m) above sea level, located between 1,600-foot (490 m) high hills that form the most southerly points of the Lebanon mountain range.

It is about 25 km from the Sea of Galilee and about 9 km west from Mount Tabor.

According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, Nazareth had a population of app. 65,000 in 2005.

The vast majority of its residents are Arab citizens of Israel, 31.3% of whom are Christians and 68.7% of whom are Muslims. Many claim the Christian population is reducing in Nazareth and the surrounding areas, while other faiths increase.

Nazareth forms a metropolitan area which includes the Arab local councils of Yafa an-Naseriyye to the south, Reineh, Mashhad and Kafr Kanna to the north, Iksal and the adjacent city of Nazareth Illit to the east which has a population of 40,000 Jews.

Together, the Nazareth metropolitan area has a population of approximately 185,000 of which over 145,000 are Arabs.

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