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The 20 cities selected for the Southern portion of the map are from The Southern Levant (Cisjordan) during the Late Bronze Age (2013) by Nava Panitz-Cohen (University of Jerusalem):

Attempts to reconstruct the number of city-states and particularly to define the nature of their borders, have resulted in conflicting views, ranging from a number of 13–14 (Finkelstein 1996), or 17–18 (Bunimovitz 1989: 131–62), to 22–27 (Helck 1971; Gonen 1992b: 214; Na’aman 1997; Falconer and Savage 2003). A proposed modus vivendi is the round number of c.20 suggested in wake of the recent petrographic study of the Amarna tablets (Goren, Finkelstein, and Na’aman 2004: 320). The different evaluations are based on variable definitions of what constitutes a city-state (Hansen 2000), as well as on the question whether there was a ‘no man’s land’ or fuzzy border between them (Na’aman 1997: 606–7) or whether it was a tightly organized system with no sparsely inhabited or poorly controlled border zones (Finkelstein 1996: 225–6; Goren, Finkelstein, and Na’aman 2004: 322).

For a different selection of cities, copied from Finkelstein's The Forgotten Kingdom: The Archaeology and History of Northern Israel see this map: File:CarteCanaanAuBronzeRécent.jpg.

For the Northern portion, I used the map below, removing all cities that did not existed in the Bronze Age.