The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of Western Asia. In its narrowest sense, which is in use today in archaeology and other cultural contexts, it is equivalent to a stretch of land bordering the Mediterranean in southwestern Asia, i.e. the historical region of Syria, which includes present-day Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and most of Turkey southwest of the middle Euphrates. Its overwhelming characteristic is that it represents the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia. In its widest historical sense, the Levant included all of the Eastern Mediterranean with its islands; that is, it included all of the countries along the Eastern Mediterranean shores, extending from Greece to Cyrenaica in eastern Libya.

लेवंट या बिलाद अश-शाम या शाम पश्चिमी एशिया का भूमध्य सागर के पूर्वी छोर से लगा हुआ एक ऐतिहासिक क्षेत्र है। यह सीरिया पर केन्द्रित है, परन्तु लेबनान, जॉर्डन, इज़राइल, फ़िलिस्तीन, सायप्रस और दक्षिणी तुर्की के कुछ भाग भी इसमें सम्मिलित हैं। कभी-कभी इराक़ का पश्चिमी भाग और सीनाई प्रायद्वीप भी इसके अंग माने जाते हैं।