Palestine

The Palestinian territories, also known as Palestine or the State of Palestine, consists of two physically separate entities, the and the , in the .
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The is a Palestinian territory in the . The capital and largest city is Gaza. Portions of this page may be out of date because the situation on the ground changes quickly.

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is a small city located some 10 km south of the Old City of within the , in an "Area A" zone administered by the Palestinian Authority.

or Ram Allah is a small city in the region of the Palestinian Territories, located 15 km north of . Since the inception of the Palestinian National Authority, has acted as the de facto capital city of the Palestinian administration.

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The is an area located in the between and , to the north of the . It forms the larger half of the semi-autonomous Palestinian Territories, the smaller half being the .

Palestine

Latitude of center
31.8776° or 31° 52′ 39″ north
Longitude of center
35.2112° or 35° 12′ 40″ east
Population
4,570,000
Area
5,970 km² (2,305 miles²)
Elevation
868 metres (2,848 feet)
Capital
East Jerusalem
Currency
Shekel (ILS)
Phone code
.ps
Internet domain
970
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9680050863
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
6254930
Wiki­data ID
Q219060
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Palestine” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: Filastin
  • Afrikaans: Palestina
  • Afrikaans: Palestynse Nasionale Owerheid
  • Afrikaans: Palestynse Owerhede
  • Afrikaans: Palestynse Owerheid
  • 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: الدولة الفلسطينية
  • Arabic: السلطة الفلسطينية
  • Arabic: السلطة الوطنية الفلسطينية
  • Arabic: دولة فلسطين
  • Arabic: فلسطين
  • Aragonese: Estau de Palestina
  • Aragonese: Palestina
  • Armenian: Պաղեստին
  • Assamese: পেলেষ্টাইন
  • Assamese: ফিলিস্তিন
  • Asturian: Estáu de Palestina
  • Asturian: Palestina
  • Avaric: ПилистӀин
  • Avaric: ФилистІин
  • Azerbaijani: Fələstin Dövləti
  • Azerbaijani: Fələstin
  • Bambara: Palesitini
  • Bashkir: Фәләстин Дәүләте
  • Basque: Palestina
  • Basque: Palestinako Estatua
  • Batak Mandailing: Palestina
  • Bavarian: Palästina
  • Bavarian: Palästinensische Autonomiegebiete
  • Bavarian: Stoot Palästina
  • Belarusian: Дзяржава Палестына
  • Belarusian: Дзяржава Палесціна
  • Belarusian: Палесціна
  • Belarusian: Палесцінская дзяржава
  • Bengali: ফিলিস্তিন অঞ্চল
  • Bengali: ফিলিস্তিন রাষ্ট্র
  • Bengali: ফিলিস্তিন
  • Betawi: Palestèn
  • Bhojpuri: फिलिस्तीन
  • Bosnian: Palestina (država)
  • Bosnian: Palestina
  • Breton: Palestina
  • Breton: Stad Palestina
  • Breton: Tiriadoù Palestina
  • Bulgarian: Държава Палестина
  • Bulgarian: Палестина (държава)
  • Bulgarian: Палестина
  • Burmese: ပါလက်စတိုင်း
  • Burmese: ပါလက်စတိုင်းနိုင်ငံ
  • Catalan: Estat de Palestina
  • Catalan: Palestina
  • Catalan: Territoris Palestins
  • Cebuano: Estado sa Palestina
  • Cebuano: Palestina
  • Cebuano: Palestine
  • Cebuano: Palestinian National Authority
  • Central Bikol: Estado kan Palestina
  • Central Kurdish: دەوڵەتی فەلەستین
  • Chechen: Палестина пачхьалкх
  • Chechen: ПалестӀина
  • Chechen: ПиластӀина пачхьалкх
  • Cherokee: ᏆᎴᏍᏗᏂ
  • Cherokee: ᏍᎦᏚᎩ ᎾᎿ ᏆᎴᏍᏗᏂ
  • Chinese: Palestine Kok
  • Chinese: 巴勒斯坦
  • Chinese: 巴勒斯坦國
  • Church Slavic: Палєстїна
  • Cornish: Palestayn
  • Cornish: Palestin
  • Corsican: Palestina
  • Corsican: Palistina
  • Corsican: Statu di Palestina
  • Corsican: Statu di Palistina
  • Crimean Tatar: Filistin Dewletí
  • Crimean Tatar: Filistin
  • Croatian: Država Palestina
  • Croatian: Palestina
  • Croatian: Palestinska država
  • Czech: Palestina
  • Czech: Palestinská autonomní území
  • Czech: Palestinský stát
  • Czech: Stát Palestina
  • Dagbani: State of Palestine
  • Danish: Palæstina
  • Danish: Staten Palæstina
  • Dhivehi: ފަލަސްޠީނު
  • Dhivehi: ފަލަސްޠީނުގެ ދައުލަތް
  • Dhivehi: ފަލަސްޠީން
  • Dhivehi: ފަލަޞްޠީން
  • Dimli (individual language): Fılıstin
  • Dutch: Palestijnse Gebieden
  • Dutch: Palestina
  • Dutch: PS
  • Dutch: PSE
  • Dutch: Staat Palestina
  • Dzongkha: པེ་ལིསི་ཊི་ནི་ཡན་ཊེ་རི་ཐོ་རི
  • Egyptian Arabic: دولة فلسطين
  • Egyptian Arabic: دوله فلسطين
  • Esperanto: Palestino
  • Esperanto: Ŝtato Palestino
  • Estonian: Palestiina Riik
  • Estonian: Palestiina
  • Ewe: Palestinia nutome
  • Extremaduran: Estau de Palestina
  • Extremaduran: Palestina
  • Faroese: Palestina
  • Fiji Hindi: Palestine
  • Fijian: Palisitaina
  • Finnish: Palestiina (valtio)
  • Finnish: Palestiina
  • Finnish: Palestiinalaisalue
  • Finnish: Palestiinalaishallinto
  • Finnish: Palestiinan valtio
  • French: Autorité nationale palestinienne
  • French: Autorité palestinienne
  • French: État de Palestine
  • French: État palestinien
  • 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 (Léta)
  • Guianese Creole French: Palestin
  • Gujarati: પેલેસ્ટાઇન
  • Gujarati: ફિલસ્ટીન
  • Hakka Chinese: Palestine Koet
  • Hausa: Ƙasar Falasɗinu
  • Hausa: Palasɗinu
  • Hausa: State of Palestine
  • Hawaiian: Mokuʻāina ʻo Palekekine
  • Hawaiian: Mokuʻāina o Palekekine
  • Hawaiian: Palekekine
  • Hebrew: הרשות הפלסטינית
  • Hebrew: השטחים הפלסטיניים
  • Hebrew: מדינה פלסטינית
  • Hebrew: מדינת פלסטין
  • Hebrew: פלסטין
  • Hindi: पैलेस्टाइन
  • Hindi: फिलिस्तीन राज्य
  • Hindi: फ़िलिस्तीन राज्य
  • Hindi: फ़िलिस्तीन
  • Hungarian: Palesztin Autonóm Területek
  • Hungarian: Palesztina
  • Iban: Palestin
  • Icelandic: Palestína
  • Icelandic: Palestínuríki
  • Ido: Palestinana stato
  • Igbo: Ọchịchị Palestaịn
  • Igbo: Palestinian Territories
  • Iloko: Estado ti Palestina
  • Indonesian: Negara Palestina
  • Indonesian: Otoritas Nasional Palestina
  • Indonesian: Otoritas Palestina
  • 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: Palistain
  • 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: Palèstina
  • Kabiyè: Palɛstiinii
  • Kabyle: Falesṭin (Awanek)
  • Kabyle: Falesṭin
  • Kadazan Dusun: Palestin
  • Kannada: ಪ್ಯಾಲೆಸ್ಟೈನ್
  • Kannada: ಸ್ಟೇಟ್ ಆಫ್ ಪ್ಯಾಲೆಸ್ಟೈನ್
  • Kara-Kalpak: Palestina
  • Karachay-Balkar: Филистин кърал
  • Kashmiri: ریاستِ فلسطیٖن
  • Kashmiri: فَلَستیٖن
  • Kashubian: Palestinskô
  • Kazakh: Палестин мемлекеті
  • Kazakh: Палестина мемлекеті
  • Kazakh: Палестина
  • Khmer: ប៉ាឡេស្ទីន
  • Khmer: រដ្ឋប៉ាឡេស្ទីន
  • Kikuyu: Palestine
  • Kikuyu: Ukingo wa Magharibi na Ukanda wa Gaza wa Palestina
  • Kinyarwanda: Palestine
  • Kirghiz: Палестина мамлекети
  • Kirghiz: Палестина Мамлекети
  • Kirghiz: Палестина
  • Komering: Palestina
  • Kongo: Palestine
  • Korean: 팔레스타인 영토
  • Korean: 팔레스타인
  • Korean: 팔레스타인국
  • Korean: 팔레스티나국가
  • Kurdish: Dewleta Filistînê
  • Kurdish: Filistîn
  • Ladin: Stat de Palestina
  • Ladino: Estado de Palestina
  • Lao: ປາເລດສະຕິນ
  • Lao: ລັດປາແລັດສະໄຕ
  • Latin: Civitas Palaestinae
  • Latin: Civitas Palestinae
  • Latin: Palaestina
  • Latin: Palestina
  • Latvian: Palestīna
  • Latvian: Palestīnas Valsts
  • Latvian: PLE
  • Latvian: PSE
  • Lezghian: Гьукумат Палестина
  • Lezghian: Палестина
  • Ligurian: Stâto de Palestìnn-a
  • Lingala: Palɛsine
  • Lingua Franca Nova: Filastin
  • Literary Chinese: 巴勒斯坦
  • Lithuanian: Palestina (valstybė)
  • Lithuanian: Palestina
  • Lithuanian: Palestinos autonomija
  • Lithuanian: Palestinos valstybė
  • Lombard: Stat de Palestina
  • Low German: Palestina
  • Low German: Ståt Palestina
  • Lower Sorbian: Palestina
  • Luba-Katanga: Palesine
  • Luxembourgish: Palestina
  • Luxembourgish: Palestinensesch Autonomiegebidder
  • Macedonian: Држава Палестина
  • Macedonian: Палестина (држава)
  • Macedonian: Палестина
  • Malagasy: Palestina (fanjakana)
  • Malagasy: Palestina
  • Malay: Negara Palestin
  • Malay: Palestin (negara)
  • Malay: Palestin
  • Malay: Pihak Berkuasa Negara Palestin
  • Malay: نݢارا فلسطين
  • Malayalam: പലസ്തീൻ (രാജ്യം)
  • Malayalam: പലസ്തീൻ രാജ്യം
  • Malayalam: പലസ്‌തീൻ
  • Malayalam: പലസ്തീൻ
  • Maltese: il-Palestina
  • Maltese: Palestina
  • Maltese: Stat Palestinjan
  • Maltese: Stat tal-Palestina
  • Manx: Steat y Phalasteen
  • Manx: y Phalasteen
  • Maori: Parihitini
  • Maori: Whenua o Paratinia
  • Maori: Whenua o Parihitini
  • Maori: Whenua oPirihitia
  • 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: دولة فيليسطين
  • Moroccan Arabic: فلسطين
  • Narom: Êtat d‘ Palestène
  • Narom: État dé Palestène
  • Narom: Êtat dé Palestène
  • Narom: Palestène
  • 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: Palestina (stat)
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Palestina
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Palestinsk territorium
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Staten Palestina
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Palestina
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Palestinsk territorium
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Staten Palestina
  • Norwegian: Palestina
  • Occitan (post 1500): Estat de Palestina
  • Occitan (post 1500): Palestina
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): Rice of Palestīn
  • Oriya: ପାଲେଷ୍ଟାଇନ
  • Oriya: ପାଲେଷ୍ଟାଇନ୍
  • Ossetian: Палестинæ (паддзахад)
  • Ossetian: Палестинæ
  • Ossetian: Палестинæйы паддзахад
  • Pali: फिलिस्तीन
  • Panjabi: ਫਿਲੀਸਤੀਨ
  • Papiamento: Palestina
  • Persian: دولت فلسطین
  • Persian: فلسطین
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: Palestiin
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: Stait o‘ Palestiin
  • Polish: Autonomia Palestyńska
  • Polish: Palestyna (państwo)
  • Polish: Palestyna
  • Polish: Państwo Palestyna
  • Pontic: Παλαιστίνη
  • Portuguese: Estado da Palestina
  • Portuguese: Palestina
  • Portuguese: Terra Santa
  • Portuguese: Territórios Palestinianos
  • Pushto: فلسطين
  • Quechua: Palestina
  • Quechua: Palistina Mama Llaqta
  • Quechua: Phalistina mamallaqta
  • Rakhine: ပါလက်စတိုင်းနိုင်ငံ
  • Romanian: Palestina
  • Romanian: Statul Palestina
  • Romanian: Statul palestinian
  • Romanian: Teritoriile palestiniene
  • Romansh: Palestina
  • Rundi: Palesitina Wesitibanka na Gaza
  • Russian: Государство Палестина
  • Russian: Палестина
  • Russian: Палестинские территории
  • Russian: Палестинское государство
  • Russian: Территории Палестины
  • Russian: Территория Арабского государства
  • Rusyn: Палестина (штат)
  • Rusyn: Палестина
  • Sango: Sêse tî Palestîni
  • Santali: ᱯᱮᱞᱮᱥᱴᱟᱭᱤᱱ
  • Saraiki: فلسطین
  • Sardinian: Istadu de Palestina
  • Sardinian: Palestina
  • Scots: Palestine
  • Scots: Palestinian Naitional Authority
  • Scots: PS
  • Scots: PSE
  • Scots: State o Palestine
  • Scottish Gaelic: Palastain
  • Serbian: Држава Палестина
  • Serbian: Палестина
  • Serbian: Палестинска народна самоуправа
  • Serbian: Палестинска самоуправа
  • Serbo-Croatian: Palestina (država)
  • Serbo-Croatian: Palestina
  • Shan: မိူင်းပႃးလဵတ်ႈသတၢႆး
  • Shona: Palestine
  • Sicilian: Palistina
  • Sicilian: Statu di Palistina
  • Silesian: Palestyna (państwo)
  • Silesian: Palestyna
  • Sindhi: فلسطين جي رياست
  • Sindhi: فلسطين
  • Sinhala: පලස්තීන රාජ්‍යය
  • Sinhala: පලස්තීනය
  • Slovak: Palestína
  • Slovak: Palestínske územia
  • Slovak: Palestínsky štát
  • Slovenian: Država Palestina
  • Slovenian: Palestina
  • Somali: Dawlada Falastiin
  • Somali: Falastiin
  • South Azerbaijani: فیلیسطین دؤولتی
  • Spanish: Estado de Palestina
  • Spanish: Palestina
  • Spanish: Territorios Palestinos
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⴼⴰⵍⵉⵙⵟⵉⵏ
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⴼⵉⵍⵉⵙⵟⵉⵏ
  • Swahili: Palestina
  • Swati: IPhalestina
  • Swedish: Palestina (stat)
  • Swedish: Palestina
  • Swedish: Palestinska områden
  • Swedish: Palestinska staten
  • Swedish: Staten Palestina
  • Sylheti: ꠚꠤꠟꠤꠍ꠆ꠔꠤꠘ
  • Tagalog: Estado ng Palestina
  • Tagalog: Estadong Palestino
  • Tagalog: Istado ng Palestina
  • Tagalog: Istadong Palestino
  • Tagalog: Palestayn
  • Tagalog: Palestina
  • Tagalog: Palestine
  • Tagalog: Palestinian State
  • Tagalog: Palestinian territories
  • Tagalog: Palestinong Estado
  • Tagalog: Palistayn
  • Tagalog: State of Palestine
  • Tai Nüa: ᥛᥫᥒᥰ ᥙᥣᥰ ᥘᥥᥖ ᥔᥣ ᥖᥣᥭᥰ
  • Tajik: Давлати Фаластин
  • Talysh: Fələstin
  • Tamil: பலத்தீன் நாடு
  • Tamil: பலத்தீன்
  • Tamil: பலஸ்தீனம்
  • Tamil: பாலசுதீன நாடு
  • Tamil: பாலத்தீன நாடு
  • Tamil: பாலத்தீனம்
  • Tamil: பாலஸ்தீன நாடு
  • Tamil: பாலஸ்தீனம்
  • Tamil: பாலஸ்தீன்
  • Tatar: Фәләстин Дәүләте
  • Tatar: Фәләстыйн
  • Telugu: పాలస్తీనా
  • Tetum: Palestina
  • Thai: ประเทศปาเลสไตน์
  • Thai: ปาเลสไตน์
  • Thai: รัฐปาเลสไตน์
  • Tigrinya: ፍልስጤም
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): Palesitaine
  • Tosk Albanian: Staat Palästina
  • Tunisian Arabic: دولة فلسطين
  • Turkish: Filistin Devleti
  • Turkish: Filistin
  • Turkmen: Filistin Döwleti
  • Turkmen: Palestina
  • Tyap: Pa̱la̱sti̱n (a̱byin)
  • Tyap: Pa̱la̱sti̱n
  • Uighur: پەلەستىن
  • Ukrainian: ‘Палестинські’ території в Ізраїлі
  • Ukrainian: Арабські території в Ізраїлі
  • Ukrainian: Палестина
  • Ukrainian: Палестинська держава
  • Ukrainian: Території Палестини
  • Upper Sorbian: Palestina
  • Urdu: دولت فلسطین
  • Urdu: ریاستِ فلسطین
  • Urdu: فلسطین
  • Uzbek: Falastin davlati
  • 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: Estat di 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
  • Yoruba: State of Palestine
  • Yue Chinese: 巴勒斯坦國
  • Zeeuws: Palestina (land)
  • Zeeuws: Palestina
  • Zulu: i-Palestine
  • Zulu: i-State of Palestine
  • ma Palisin
  • ma Pilasin
  • ma Pilisin
  • Palestina
  • Palõstiina
  • Tlahtohcāyōtl Palestina
  • फिलिस्तीन

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Palestine”. Photo: KlausFoehl, CC BY-SA 3.0.