Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan · PSWhere is Palestine?
Palestine is grouped in the World Bank's Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan region. A capital is not listed in the imported metadata. Representative coordinates are not available for this profile.
How large is Palestine?
EqualAtlas calculates a consistent spherical area from the same Natural Earth boundary geometry used for the map. For Palestine, that mapped area is approximately 6,336 square kilometres, ranking #170 among 238 mapped country and territory profiles. It may differ slightly from figures published by national statistical offices because coastlines, inland water and territorial definitions vary by dataset.
People and place
Palestine had a World Bank population value of 5,413,596 in 2025. Using the displayed mapped area, that is about 854.4 people per square kilometre. Area and population answer different questions, so EqualAtlas keeps their reference methods visible rather than combining them into an unexplained ranking.
For wider context, the latest imported World Bank GDP value is $17.2B for 2025, ranking #136 among 185 profiles with data. This current-dollar measure should not be read as a cost-of-living or household-income comparison.
The latest imported life expectancy at birth value is 69.2 years for 2024, ranking #158 among 215 profiles with data. It is a period estimate based on prevailing mortality rates, not a prediction for an individual person.
Population and economic data: World Bank Open Data. Boundary geometry: Natural Earth via world-atlas. Data and methods are explained on the data sources page.
Countries and territories closest in mapped area
These are the three profiles whose mapped areas are nearest to Palestine under the same geometry and spherical calculation.
French Southern Territories
Cyprus
Brunei