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Map of Canaan, with the border defined by Numbers 34:1–12 shown in red.

Canaan (Northwest Semitic '; Phoenician: ; Biblical Hebrew: / '; Masoretic: / '; / Kan‘ān) is a historical Semitic-speaking region roughly corresponding to the Levant (modern-day Israel, Palestinian territories, Lebanon, and the western parts of Jordan and Syria). Canaan was of geopolitical importance in the Late Bronze Age Amarna period as the area where the spheres of interest of the Egyptian, Hittite Empire and Assyrian Empires converged. Canaan is historically attested throughout the 4th millennium BC; the later Amarna Letters use ', while sources of the Egyptian New Kingdom mention numerous military campaigns conducted in '. In modern usage, the name is often associated with the Hebrew Bible, where the "Land of Canaan" extends from Lebanon southward to the "Brook of Egypt" and eastward to the Jordan River Valley.

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