Along the Mediterranean Sea, there is a coastal strip which boarders Egypt in the South-west and Israel in the North-west. This coastal strip is known as Gaza strip. This strip is 25 miles or 41 kilometers long and the width of the strip is 4–7.5 miles or 12 kilometers. The total area of Gaza strip is about 139 miles or 360 square kilometer. This territory is known as Gaza and almost 1.4 million Palestinian Arabs reside there.