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Yarkon Park

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “large urban park”. Today it says “park in tel aviv”.
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Public park in Tel Aviv, Israel This article is about the public park near the mouth of the Yarkon River. Yarkon Park ( , Park HaYarkon ) is a large park in Tel Aviv , Israel , with about sixteen million visits annually.1 Named after the Yarkon River which flows through it, the park includes extensive lawns , sports facilities, botanical gardens , an aviary , a water park , two outdoor concert venues and lakes . The park covers an area of 3.5 km² . At 375 hectares, it is slightly larger than Central Park in New York , and double the size of Hyde Park, London .

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large urban park

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park in tel aviv

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