The State of Palestine lays claim to a region on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
Palestine ( فلسطين , , ; Παλαιστίνη , Palaistinē ; Palaestina Hebrew : פלשתינה Palestina ) is a geographic region in Western Asia between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River . State of Palestine . The State of Palestine claims the West Bank ( bordering Israel and Jordan ) and Gaza Strip ( bordering Israel and Egypt ) with East Jerusalem as the designated capital . The historic region of Syria ( Hieroglyphic Luwian : Sura/i ; Συρία in modern literature called Greater Syria , Syria-Palestine , or the Levant ) is an area located east of the Mediterranean sea . In Late Antiquity Syria meant a region located to the East of the Mediterranean Sea , West of the Euphrates River , North of the Arabian Desert and South of the Taurus Mountains , thereby including modern Syria , Lebanon , Jordan , Israel , the State of Palestine and parts of Southern Turkey namely the Hatay Province and the Western half of the Southeastern Anatolia Region .