Biblical place

Where was Canaan?

The promised land in broad outline and one of the Bible’s central geographies of inheritance, struggle, and identity.

First appears in Genesis 10:19 · 16 books · 63 chapters

Overview

Canaan is the broad land of promise in the Old Testament, a geography of inheritance, conflict, settlement, and covenant memory.

Canaan is represented in the local geography layer as Canaan. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in Genesis 10:19 and is mentioned across 16 books, with 101 verse references collected into the glossary index.

Nearby biblical places

Nazareth

About 8 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Galilee

About 18 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Samaria

About 56 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Jericho

About 100 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Jerusalem

About 110 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Where it sits on the map

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How to get to Canaan today

Find the traditionally identified site on a modern map.

Canaan is a regional name, not a single destination. Today it is best understood as the southern Levant: the lands around Israel, the Palestinian territories, Lebanon, western Jordan, and nearby southwestern Syria.

Canaan is treated here as a wider landscape centered on this study point.

This is a study aid, not live travel advice. Borders, permits, local access, and the exact identification of biblical landscapes can change.

Modern orientation

Canaan

32.767°N · 35.333°E

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