Galilee (Hebrew: הגליל ha-Galil, lit:cyliner, circuit, district; Arabic: الجليل al-Jaleel), is a large region in northern Israel which overlaps with much of the administrative Northern District of the country. Traditionally divided into Upper Galilee, Lower Galilee, and Western Galilee, the region makes up one-third of Israel, extending from Biblical Dan to the north, at the base of Mount Hermon, along Mount Lebanon to the ridges of Mount Carmel and Mount Gilboa to the south, and from the Jordan Valley to the east across the plains of the Jezreel Valley and Akko to the shores of the Mediterranean and Israel's coastal plain in the west.