Beersheba (Hebrew: "Be-er Sheva"; Arabic: "Bir es Sabe") at the foot of the Judean Hills, was built on the eastern bank of the Wadi es Saba, which joins the Wadi Ghazzeh at Bir el Esani, before stretching to the Mediterranean Sea. Located at the north-west end of a flat, treeless plain about long by wide, the town is surrounded by rocky hills and outcrops. To the north–north–east, away on the southern edge of the Judean Hills, the Tuweiyil Abu Jerwal rises to behind the town, overlooking it by ; lower hills range east and south, with a spur of the plateau of Edom on the south-east, extending towards the town.