Both a person — Ham's cursed son (9:25-27), father of Sidon and Heth (10:15) — and, in Genesis's 'genealogy is geography' idiom (see the Genesis 10 notes), the land his descendants settle: the promised land itself, entered by Abram at 12:5 and central to the rest of the Bible.
Approximate. Drawn from the boundary list of Numbers 34 — the Mediterranean on the west, the Jordan and the Dead Sea on the east, the Wadi of Egypt and the wilderness of Zin on the south — which is the Bible's own definition of the land, not a political border that ever existed on the ground. The northern limit ('Lebo-hamath') is the least certain edge and is drawn conservatively.
📍 Canaan (the land and its ancestor) — modern-day Roughly modern Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and Jordan
🗺️ No ancient-world overlay on the shelf yet for this site — a period map
showing how the region actually looked in the biblical world gets added here as Mr. Librarian curates one,
the same way the encyclopedia's film shelf grows.
▶ No films on the shelf yet — archaeology and geography videos get added here as Mr. Librarian finds good ones.