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.
- »Jericho is among the oldest continuously inhabited settlements known.
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.
Ramallah serves as the administrative seat of the Palestinian Authority, while Jerusalem is the declared capital.
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 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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