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The Jordan River (in traditional English River Jordan ) ( Hebrew : נְהַר הַיַּרְדֵּן nehar hayarden ; Arabic : نَهْر الْأُرْدُنّ nahr al-urdun ) is a 251-kilometre (156 mi) -long river in West Asia flowing to the Dead Sea . Israel and the West Bank border the river to the west, while the Golan Heights and Jordan lie to its east. Both Jordan and the West Bank take their names from the river.
The river has a major significance in Judaism and Christianity and, to a more moderate degree, Islam , as the site where the Israelites crossed into the Promised Land and where Jesus of Nazareth was baptised by John the Baptist .
The streams coming together to create the River Jordan in its upper basin are, west to east: