Palestine
The Palestinian territories, also known as Palestine or the State of Palestine, consists of two physically separate entities, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, in the Middle East.
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Palestine
- Type: Country with 5,410,000 residents
- Description: political entity that enjoys incomplete recognition as a state, located in West Asia
- Also known as: “‘Палестинські’ території в Ізраїлі”, “Autoritatea Națională Palestiniană”, “Autoritatea Palestiniană”, “Autorité nationale palestinienne”, “Autorité palestinienne”, “Civitas Palestinae”, “Estado sa Palestina”, “Estadong Palestino”, “Estádu ning Palestina”, “Estat di Palestene”, “Êtat d‘ Palestène”, “État dé Palestène”, “État palestinien”, “Falastin Davlati”, “falestina”, “falestine”, “Filistin Devleti”, “Istado ng Palestina”, “Istadong Palestino”, “ma Palisin”, “ma Pilasin”, “Mokuʻāina ʻo Palekekine”, “occupied Palestinian Territory”, “oPT”, “Otoritas Nasional Palestina”, “Otoritas Palestina”, “PA”, “Palaestina”, “Palestayn”, “Palestène”, “Palestiinalaisalue”, “Palestiinalaishallinto”, “Palestiinan valtio”, “Palestinensesch Autonomiegebidder”, “Palestinian Authority”, “Palestinian Naitional Authority”, “Palestinian National Authority”, “Palestinian state”, “Palestinian State”, “Palestinian territories”, “Palestinian Territories”, “Palestinian Territory”, “Palestinong Estado”, “Palestinos autonomija”, “Palestinska država”, “Palestinska staten”, “Palestinske teritorije”, “Palestinský stát”, “Palestínsky štát”, “Palestynse Nasionale Owerheid”, “Palestynse Owerhede”, “Palestynse Owerheid”, “Palistain”, “Palistayn”, “Palistina”, “Pihak Berkuasa Negara Palestin”, “PLE”, “PS”, “PSE”, “Ståt Palestina”, “Stat Palestinjan”, “Stat tal-Palestina”, “State of Palestine”, “statul Palestina”, “statul palestinian”, “Terra Santa”, “Whenua o Paratinia”, “Whenua oPirihitia”, “y Phalasteen”, “Арабські території в Ізраїлі”, “Палестин мемлекеті”, “Палестинска народна самоуправа”, “Палестинска самоуправа”, “Палестинское государство”, “Палесцінская дзяржава”, “ПиластӀина пачхьалкх”, “Территория Арабского государства”, “הרשות הפלסטינית”, “מדינת פלסטין”, “الدولة الفلسطينية”, “السلطة الفلسطينية”, “السلطة الوطنية الفلسطينية”, “دولة فيليسطين”, “دوله فلسطين”, “ފަލަސްޠީން”, “ފަލަޞްޠީން”, “फिलिस्तीन राज्य”, “ফিলিস্তিন রাষ্ট্র”, “பலத்தீன்”, “பலஸ்தீனம்”, “பாலசுதீன நாடு”, “பாலத்தீன நாடு”, “பாலத்தீனம்”, “பாலஸ்தீன நாடு”, “பாலஸ்தீன்”, “പലസ്തീൻ (രാജ്യം)”, “ประเทศปาเลสไตน์”, “អាជ្ញាធរជាតិប៉ាឡេស្ទីន”, “អាជ្ញាធរប៉ាឡេស្ទីន”, “ᏆᎴᏍᏗᏂ”, “팔레스타인국”, and “巴勒斯坦领土”
- Language: Arabic
- Neighbors: Egypt, Israel, and Jordan
- Categories: region, sovereign state, state with limited recognition, Mediterranean country, and locality
- Location: Middle East, Asia
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Latitude of center
31.8776° or 31° 52′ 39″ north
Longitude of center
35.2112° or 35° 12′ 40″ east
Population
5,410,000
Area
5,970 km² (2,305 miles²)
Elevation
868 metres (2,848 feet)
Capital
East Jerusalem
Currency
Shekel (ILS)
Phone code
970
Internet domain
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Palestine” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Filastin”
- Afrikaans: “Palestina”
- Afrikaans: “Staat Palestina”
- Akan: “Palestaen West Bank ne Gaza”
- Albanian: “Palestina”
- Albanian: “Palestinë”
- Albanian: “Shteti i Palestinës”
- Amharic: “ፍልስጥኤም”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Παλαιστίνη”
- Angika: “फिलिस्तीन”
- Arabic: “الأراضي الفلسطينية”
- Arabic: “دولة فلسطين”
- Arabic: “فلسطين”
- Aragonese: “Estau de Palestina”
- Aragonese: “Palestina”
- Armenian: “Պաղեստին”
- Assamese: “পেলেষ্টাইন”
- Assamese: “ফিলিস্তিন”
- Asturian: “Estáu de Palestina”
- Avaric: “ПилистӀин”
- Avaric: “ФилистІин”
- Azerbaijani: “Fələstin Dövləti”
- Azerbaijani: “Fələstin”
- Bambara: “Palesitini”
- Bashkir: “Фәләстин Дәүләте”
- Basque: “Palestina”
- Basque: “Palestinako Estatua”
- Batak Mandailing: “Palestina”
- Bavarian: “Stoot Palästina”
- Belarusian: “Дзяржава Палестына”
- Belarusian: “Дзяржава Палесціна”
- Belarusian: “Палесціна”
- Bengali: “ফিলিস্তিন অঞ্চল”
- Bengali: “ফিলিস্তিন”
- Betawi: “Palestèn”
- Bhojpuri: “फिलिस्तीन”
- Bosnian: “Palestina”
- Breton: “Palestina”
- Breton: “Stad Palestina”
- Breton: “Tiriadoù Palestina”
- Bulgarian: “Държава Палестина”
- Bulgarian: “Палестина”
- Burmese: “ပါလက်စတိုင်း”
- Burmese: “ပါလက်စတိုင်းနိုင်ငံ”
- Catalan: “Estat de Palestina”
- Catalan: “Palestina”
- Catalan: “Territoris Palestins”
- Cebuano: “Palestina”
- Central Bikol: “Estado kan Palestina”
- Central Kurdish: “دەوڵەتی فەلەستین”
- Chechen: “Палестина пачхьалкх”
- Chechen: “ПалестӀина”
- Cherokee: “ᏍᎦᏚᎩ ᎾᎿ ᏆᎴᏍᏗᏂ”
- Chinese: “巴勒斯坦”
- Chinese: “巴勒斯坦國”
- Church Slavic: “Палєстїна”
- Cornish: “Palestin”
- Corsican: “Statu di Palestina”
- Crimean Tatar: “Filistin Dewletí”
- Crimean Tatar: “Filistin”
- Croatian: “Država Palestina”
- Croatian: “Palestina”
- Czech: “Palestina”
- Czech: “Palestinská autonomní území”
- Czech: “Stát Palestina”
- Dagbani: “State of Palestine”
- Danish: “Palæstina”
- Danish: “Staten Palæstina”
- Dhivehi: “ފަލަސްޠީނު”
- Dhivehi: “ފަލަސްޠީނުގެ ދައުލަތް”
- Dimli (individual language): “Fılıstin”
- Dutch: “Palestijnse Gebieden”
- Dutch: “Palestina”
- Dutch: “Staat Palestina”
- Dzongkha: “པེ་ལིསི་ཊི་ནི་ཡན་ཊེ་རི་ཐོ་རི”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دولة فلسطين”
- Esperanto: “Palestino”
- Esperanto: “Ŝtato Palestino”
- Estonian: “Palestiina Riik”
- Estonian: “Palestiina”
- Ewe: “Palestinia nutome”
- Extremaduran: “Estau de Palestina”
- Extremaduran: “Palestina”
- Fanti: “Palestina”
- Faroese: “Palestina”
- Fiji Hindi: “Palestine”
- Fijian: “Palisitaina”
- Finnish: “Palestiina”
- French: “État de Palestine”
- French: “Palestine”
- French: “Territoires palestiniens”
- Friulian: “Palestine”
- Fulah: “Palestiin Sisjordani e Gaasaa”
- Gagauz: “Palestina”
- Galician: “Estado de Palestina”
- Galician: “Palestina”
- Ganda: “Palesitayini”
- Georgian: “პალესტინა”
- Georgian: “პალესტინის სახელმწიფო”
- German: “Palästina”
- German: “Palästinensische Autonomiegebiete”
- German: “Staat Palästina”
- Gorontalo: “Negara Palestina”
- Greek: “Κράτος της Παλαιστίνης”
- Greek: “Παλαιστίνη”
- Greek: “Παλαιστινιακά Εδάφη”
- Greek: “Παλαιστινιακές Περιοχές”
- Guarani: “Paletína”
- Guianese Creole French: “Léta di Palestin”
- Guianese Creole French: “Palestin”
- Gujarati: “પેલેસ્ટાઇન”
- Gujarati: “ફિલસ્ટીન”
- Hakka Chinese: “Palestine Koet”
- Hausa: “Ƙasar Falasɗinu”
- Hausa: “Palasɗinu”
- Hausa: “State of Palestine”
- Hawaiian: “Mokuʻāina o Palekekine”
- Hawaiian: “Palekekine”
- Hebrew: “השטחים הפלסטיניים”
- Hebrew: “מדינה פלסטינית”
- Hebrew: “פלסטין”
- Hindi: “फ़िलिस्तीन राज्य”
- Hindi: “फ़िलिस्तीन”
- Hindi: “फ़िलिस्तीनी क्षेत्र”
- Hungarian: “Palesztin Autonóm Területek”
- Hungarian: “Palesztina”
- Iban: “Palestin”
- Icelandic: “Palestína”
- Icelandic: “Palestínuríki”
- Ido: “Palestinana stato”
- Ido: “Stato Palestina”
- Igbo: “Ọchịchị Palestaịn”
- Igbo: “Palestinian Territories”
- Iloko: “Estado ti Palestina”
- Inari Sami: “Palestiina”
- Indonesian: “Palestina”
- Indonesian: “Teritorial Palestina”
- Interlingua: “Stato de Palestina”
- Inupiaq: “Palisin”
- Irish: “an Phalaistín”
- Irish: “Stát na Palaistíne”
- Italian: “Palestina”
- Italian: “Stato di Palestina”
- Italian: “Territori palestinesi”
- Italian: “Territori Palestinesi”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Palestain”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Stiet a Palistain”
- Japanese: “パレスチナ”
- Japanese: “パレスチナ国”
- Japanese: “パレスチナ自治区”
- Japanese: “パレスチナ領土”
- Javanese: “Nagara Palèstina”
- Javanese: “Negara Palèstina”
- Javanese: “Palestina”
- Javanese: “Palèstina”
- Jèrriais: “Êtat dé Palestène”
- Kabiyè: “Palɛstiinii”
- Kabyle: “Falesṭin”
- Kadazan Dusun: “Palestin”
- Kannada: “ಪ್ಯಾಲೆಸ್ಟೈನ್”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ಟೇಟ್ ಆಫ್ ಪ್ಯಾಲೆಸ್ಟೈನ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Palestina”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Филистин кърал”
- Kashmiri: “ریاستِ فلسطیٖن”
- Kashmiri: “فَلَستیٖن”
- Kashubian: “Palestina”
- Kashubian: “Palestinskô”
- Kazakh: “Палестина мемлекеті”
- Kazakh: “Палестина”
- Khmer: “ប៉ាឡេស្ទីន”
- Khmer: “រដ្ឋប៉ាឡេស្ទីន”
- Kikuyu: “Palestine”
- Kikuyu: “Ukingo wa Magharibi na Ukanda wa Gaza wa Palestina”
- Kinaray-A: “Palestina”
- Kinyarwanda: “Palestine”
- Kirghiz: “Палестина мамлекети”
- Kirghiz: “Палестина Мамлекети”
- Kirghiz: “Палестина”
- Komering: “Palestina”
- Kongo: “Palestine”
- Korean: “팔레스타인 영토”
- Korean: “팔레스타인”
- Korean: “팔레스티나국가”
- Kurdish: “Dewleta Filistînê”
- Kurdish: “Filistîn”
- Ladin: “Stat de Palestina”
- Ladino: “Estado de Palestina”
- Lao: “ປາເລດສະຕິນ”
- Lao: “ລັດປາແລັດສະໄຕ”
- Latin: “Civitas Palaestinae”
- Latvian: “Palestīna”
- Latvian: “Palestīnas Valsts”
- Lezghian: “Гьукумат Палестина”
- Lezghian: “Палестина”
- Ligurian: “Stâto de Palestìnn-a”
- Lingala: “Palɛsine”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Filastin”
- Literary Chinese: “巴勒斯坦”
- Literary Chinese: “巴勒斯坦國”
- Lithuanian: “Palestina”
- Lithuanian: “Palestinos valstybė”
- Lombard: “Stat de Palestina”
- Low German: “Palestina”
- Lower Sorbian: “Palestina”
- Luba-Katanga: “Palesine”
- Luxembourgish: “Palestina”
- Macedonian: “Држава Палестина”
- Macedonian: “Палестина”
- Magahi: “फिलिस्तीन”
- Malagasy: “Palestina”
- Malay: “Negara Palestin”
- Malay: “Palestin”
- Malay: “نݢارا فلسطين”
- Malayalam: “പലസ്തീൻ രാജ്യം”
- Malayalam: “പലസ്തീൻ”
- Malayalam: “പലസ്തീൻ”
- Maltese: “il-Palestina”
- Maltese: “Palestina”
- Manx: “Steat y Phalasteen”
- Maori: “Parihitini”
- Maori: “Whenua o Parihitini”
- Marathi: “पॅलेस्टाईन”
- Mazanderani: “فلسطین”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Palestine Guók”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Palestine Kok”
- Minangkabau: “Nagara Palestina”
- Mingrelian: “პალესტინაშ სახენწჷფო”
- Moksha: “Кирдемастор Палестина”
- Mongolian: “Палестин Улс”
- Mongolian: “Палестин”
- Moroccan Arabic: “دولة فلسطين”
- Moroccan Arabic: “فلسطين”
- Nepali: “प्यालेस्टाइन राज्य”
- Nepali: “प्यालेस्टाइन”
- Nepali: “प्यालेस्टाइन”
- North Levantine Arabic: “دولة فلسطين”
- North Ndebele: “Palestinian West Bank and Gaza”
- Northern Frisian: “Palestiina”
- Northern Sami: “Palestina”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Palestinsk territorium”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Staten Palestina”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Palestina”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Palestinsk territorium”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Staten Palestina”
- Norwegian: “Palestina”
- Nyanja: “Palestine”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Estat de Palestina”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܦܰܠܶܣܬܺܝܢܰܐ”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Rice of Palestīn”
- Oriya: “ପାଲେଷ୍ଟାଇନ”
- Oriya: “ପାଲେଷ୍ଟାଇନ୍”
- Ossetian: “Палестинæ”
- Ossetian: “Палестинæйы паддзахад”
- Pali: “फिलिस्तीन”
- Pampanga: “Palestína”
- Panjabi: “ਫਿਲੀਸਤੀਨ”
- Papiamento: “Palestina”
- Persian: “دولت فلسطین”
- Persian: “فلسطین”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Stait o‘ Palestiin”
- Polish: “Autonomia Palestyńska”
- Polish: “Palestyna”
- Polish: “Państwo Palestyna”
- Pontic: “Παλαιστίνη”
- Portuguese: “Estado da Palestina”
- Portuguese: “Palestina”
- Portuguese: “Territórios Palestinianos”
- Pushto: “فلسطين”
- Quechua: “Palestina”
- Quechua: “Palistina Mama Llaqta”
- Quechua: “Phalistina mamallaqta”
- Rakhine: “ပါလက်စတိုင်းနိုင်ငံ”
- Romanian: “Palestina”
- Romanian: “Statul Palestina”
- Romanian: “Teritoriile palestiniene”
- Romansh: “Palestina”
- Rundi: “Palesitina Wesitibanka na Gaza”
- Russian: “Государство Палестина”
- Russian: “Палестина”
- Russian: “Палестинские территории”
- Russian: “Территории Палестины”
- Rusyn: “Палестина”
- Sango: “Sêse tî Palestîni”
- Santali: “ᱯᱮᱞᱮᱥᱴᱟᱭᱤᱱ”
- Saraiki: “فلسطین”
- Sardinian: “Istadu de Palestina”
- Scots: “State o Palestine”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Palastain”
- Serbian: “Држава Палестина”
- Serbian: “Палестина”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Palestina”
- Shan: “မိူင်းပႃးလဵတ်ႈသတၢႆး”
- Shona: “Palestine”
- Sicilian: “Statu di Palistina”
- Silesian: “Palestyna”
- Sindhi: “فلسطين جي رياست”
- Sindhi: “فلسطين”
- Sinhala: “පලස්තීන රාජ්යය”
- Sinhala: “පලස්තීනය”
- Skolt Sami: “Palestiin”
- Slovak: “Palestína”
- Slovak: “Palestínske územia”
- Slovenian: “Palestina”
- Somali: “Dawlada Falastiin”
- Somali: “Falastiin”
- South Azerbaijani: “فیلیسطین دؤولتی”
- Spanish: “Palestina”
- Spanish: “Territorios Palestinos”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴼⴰⵍⵉⵙⵟⵉⵏ”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴼⵉⵍⵉⵙⵟⵉⵏ”
- Swahili: “Palestina”
- Swati: “IPhalestina”
- Swedish: “Palestina”
- Swedish: “Palestinska områden”
- Swiss German: “Staat Palästina”
- Sylheti: “ꠚꠤꠟꠤꠍ꠆ꠔꠤꠘ”
- Tagalog: “Estado ng Palestina”
- Tagalog: “Palestina”
- Tai Nüa: “ᥛᥫᥒᥰ ᥙᥣᥰ ᥘᥥᥖ ᥔᥣ ᥖᥣᥭᥰ”
- Tajik: “Давлати Фаластин”
- Talysh: “Fələstin”
- Tamil: “பலத்தீன் நாடு”
- Tamil: “பாலஸ்தீனம்”
- Tatar: “Фәләстин дәүләте”
- Tatar: “Фәләстыйн”
- Telugu: “పాలస్తీనా”
- Tetum: “Palestina”
- Thai: “ปาเลสไตน์”
- Thai: “รัฐปาเลสไตน์”
- Tigrinya: “ፍልስጤም”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Palesitaine”
- Tunisian Arabic: “دولة فلسطين”
- Turkish: “Filistin”
- Turkmen: “Filistin Döwleti”
- Turkmen: “Palestina”
- Tyap: “Pa̱la̱sti̱n (a̱byin)”
- Tyap: “Pa̱la̱sti̱n”
- Uighur: “پەلەستىن”
- Ukrainian: “Палестина”
- Ukrainian: “Палестинська держава”
- Ukrainian: “Території Палестини”
- Upper Sorbian: “Palestina”
- Urdu: “دولت فلسطین”
- Urdu: “ریاستِ فلسطین”
- Urdu: “فلسطین”
- Uzbek: “Falastin davlati”
- Uzbek: “Falastin”
- Venetian: “Pałestina”
- Vietnamese: “Nhà nước Palestine”
- Vietnamese: “Palestine”
- Vlaams: “Palestina”
- Vlaams: “Stoat Palestina”
- Volapük: “Palästinän”
- Võro: “Palõstiina”
- Walloon: “Estat d‘ Palestene”
- Walloon: “Palestene”
- Welsh: “Gwladwriaeth Palesteina”
- Welsh: “Palesteina”
- West Coast Bajau: “Palestin”
- Western Armenian: “Պաղեստին”
- Western Frisian: “Palestina”
- Western Frisian: “Steat Palestina”
- Western Panjabi: “دولت فلسطین”
- Wu Chinese: “巴勒斯坦国”
- Yakut: “Палестина судаарыстыбата”
- Yiddish: “פאלעסטינע”
- Yoruba: “Orílẹ̀-èdè Palẹstínì”
- Yoruba: “Palẹsítínì”
- Yue Chinese: “巴勒斯坦國”
- Zeeuws: “Palestina (land)”
- Zeeuws: “Palestina”
- Zulu: “i-Palestine”
- Zulu: “i-State of Palestine”
- “ma Pilisin”
- “Palestina”
- “Tlahtohcāyōtl Palestina”
- “फिलिस्तीन”
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