Explore Palestinian Territory in Asia - Palestinian Territory Tourism Info
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.
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Efrata from Nahal Pirim
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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 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 country consists of 2 regions/states which are listed below.
Regions/States of Palestinian Territory
Demographic Information
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.
Birthrate
The number of people born in Palestinian Territory has declined over the last 10 years by 3.6 births per thousand from 39.5 in 2001 to 36.3 in 2010. Currently, 58,170 children are born each year.
Natural Deathrate
The number of people naturally dying in Palestinian Territory has declined over the last 10 years by 0.8 deaths per thousand from 4.2 in 2001 to 3.4 in 2010. Currently, 5,390 people die each year.
Natural Population Growth
Population, Migration and Growth: The population in Palestinian Territory is growing at an rate of 3.29% (or by 52,779 citizens). Each year 0 people enter this country (or 0.00 per thousand citizens) - making it an immigration country. This leads to an absolute natural increase rate of the population of 3.29%. Or an total increase of 52,779 citizens.
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.
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