{"id":186230,"date":"2026-04-05T10:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186230\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T10:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:58:10","slug":"the-scale-of-the-war-in-the-middle-east-in-five-maps-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186230\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scale of the War in the Middle East in Five Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The geographic scale<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-intro svelte-1vwrn6m\">To show the extent of the war that the United States and Israel started with Iran, the maps in this article overlay the region onto different parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"svelte-1cwi5ed\">Drag the globe or region to compare the area in different places.<\/p>\n<p>Extent of the attacks<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-intro svelte-1vwrn6m\">The strikes carried out by both sides in the war have stretched across a vast area of more than four million square miles, as seen in this map overlaid onto Europe.<\/p>\n<p> Targets hit in the war <\/p>\n<p class=\"svelte-io46bz\">Feb. 28 to April 2<\/p>\n<p>In comparison with Ukraine<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-intro svelte-1vwrn6m\">Russia has been trying to control parts of Ukraine for more than a decade. Iran is nearly three times the size of Ukraine and has more than double its population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-wrapper_meta g-text-align-left svelte-fkyd84\" style=\"--g-caption-display:inline;--g-caption-margin-bottom:0;\"> Note: Areas controlled by Russia and reclaimed by Ukraine are as of April 2.  <\/p>\n<p>Strait of Hormuz<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-intro svelte-1vwrn6m\">Iran attacked ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping route through which a fifth of the world\u2019s oil supply moves. This map overlays the strait over the New York City area.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon, the other front<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-intro svelte-1vwrn6m\">Israel\u2019s army has demanded evacuations in areas of southern Lebanon and Beirut, which are comparable in size to New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The geographic scale To show the extent of the war that the United States and Israel started with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-186230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}