8 Facts About Palestine State

Palestine, officially the State of Palestine, is a Western Asian country.

The Palestine Liberation Organization governs it and claims the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

However, Israel has occupied its claimed territory since the 1967 Six-Day War.

Palestine State is located in the eastern Mediterranean. The Gaza Strip is approximately 365 km² in size, while the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is approximately 5,655 km². These territories are divided by Israel.

Not every country recognises Palestine as a sovereign state. The State of Palestine is not recognised as a sovereign state by all United Nations member states. The State of Palestine is currently classified as a "non-member observer state" by the United Nations. However, as of April 2022, 138 of the 193 UN member states, the Holy See, and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic have officially recognised Palestine as a state.

The Palestinian State has a young population. The median age of the Palestinian population is 20.8 years, according to Worldometers.

The diaspora accounts for half of the Palestinian population.

Palestine has three UNESCO World Heritage Sites. UNESCO has inscribed three Palestinian sites on its World Heritage List, and 14 more are under consideration on the Tentative List. One site is the Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativity and the Pilgrimage Route, Bethlehem, which has been identified as the birthplace of Jesus by Christian tradition since the 2nd century. Another site is Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town, which is home to the Al-Ibrahimi Mosque/The Tomb of the Patriarchs, whose buildings are in a compound built in the first century AD to protect the patriarch Abraham/Ibrahim and his family's tombs. Another site is Palestine: Land of Olives and Vines - Cultural Landscape of Southern Jerusalem, Battir, which is described as "an outstanding example of traditional land-use" by UNESCO and represents many centuries of culture and human interaction with the environment.