Palestine
Palestine (officially State of Palestine) is a country in Western Asia, with its capital at Ramallah, and is home to roughly 5.3M people.
Arabic is the official language; the currency in circulation is Egyptian pound (E£) and Israeli new shekel (₪) and Jordanian dinar (JD); people from here are called Palestinian.
> INTEL_
> NOTABLE_
- »Jericho is among the oldest continuously inhabited settlements known.
> BORDERS_
Palestine touches three neighbours: Egypt to the southwest, Israel to the southwest and Jordan to the southeast. Directions run from one centre to the other.
> THE CAPITAL_
Ramallah serves as the administrative seat of the Palestinian Authority, while Jerusalem is the declared capital.
> SCALE_
6,077 km² (2,346 sq mi), 165th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Brunei.
Population 5,289,152, 123rd of 198 on file. That averages 870 per km² (2,254 per sq mi).
> THE FLAG_
The pan-Arab colours of the 1916 Arab Revolt, black, white and green with a red triangle, adopted as the Palestinian flag in 1964.
Easily confused with Western Sahara and Jordan.
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