Negev
The Negev (נגב, Standard Hebrew Négev / Nágev, Tiberian Hebrew Néḡeḇ / Nāḡeḇ; Arabic النقب an-Naqab) is the desert region of southern Israel. In Biblical Hebrew Négev means south.
Geographically, the over 13,000km² Negev forms an inverted triangle whose western side is continuous with the desert of the Sinai peninsula, and whose eastern border is the Wadi Arabah.
Its central city is Beersheba (pop. around 200,000), in the north. The southern end is at the Gulf of Eilat and the resort town of Eilat. Other towns include Dimona and Mizpe Ramon, and a number of Bedouin towns, including Rahat and Machtesh Ramon ("Ramon Crater"). The last is the biggest of all, in fact - it is probably the largest natural craters on earth (it was not formed by asteroid impact).
