Palestinian Territory Country Info - Asia

Description and Basic Information

Palestinian Territory with its capital East Jerusalem is located in Asia (Middle East, west of Jordan). It covers some 5,971 square kilometres (slightly smaller than Delaware) with 3,800,000 citizens. Arabic is the language used by the people in Palestinian Territory. It is charing borders with Jordan and Israel.

Palestinian Territory consist of two physically separate entities, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and are not considered part of any sovereign nation. Trek along the path that took Joseph and Mary from Nazareth to Bethlehem. Walk along the settings that the Patriarch Abraham wandered through during his journey across the Levant region. The Abraham trail is a joint project with branches in Turkey, Jordan, Israel and Palestine.

Pictures from Capital (East Jerusalem)

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About Palestinian Territory

The landscape features mostly rugged dissected upland, some vegetation in west, but barren in east. The average density of population is about 636 per km². The climate in Palestinian Territory can be described as temperate with temperature and precipitation vary with altitude, warm to hot summers, cool to mild winters. Potential threats by nature are droughts.

To reach someone in Palestinian Territory dial +970 prior to a number. There are 360,400 installed telephones. And there are 2,405,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".ps". The following list are the 2 regions/states in Palestinian Territory we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total population grew at a rate of 3.29% (or by 52,779 citizens). With 5,390 deaths and 58,170 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at 3.29%. 0 persons more in total immigrated to the country than emmigrated.

An overview of age distribution in Palestinian Territory: Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.