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Palestinians

Palestinians
(الفلسطينيون, al-Filasṭīniyyūn)
Total population
c. 12.37 million
Regions with significant populations
 State of Palestine 4,750,000
 – West Bank 2,930,000
 – Gaza Strip 1,880,000
 Jordan 2,100,000–3,240,000
 Israel 1,750,000 (60% self-identify as Palestinians according to a 2012 study)
 Syria 526,744 (2011) refugees
 Chile 500,000
 Lebanon 449,957 (2014) refugees
 Saudi Arabia 400,000
 Qatar 295,000
 United States 255,000
 United Arab Emirates 91,000
 Germany 80,000
 Kuwait 80,000
 Egypt 70,000
 El Salvador 70,000
 Brazil 59,000
 Libya 59,000
 Iraq 57,000
 Canada 50,975
 Yemen 29,000
 Honduras 150-200,000.
 United Kingdom 20,000
 Peru 15,000
 Mexico 13,000
 Colombia 12,000
 Pakistan 10,500
 Netherlands 9,000
 Australia 7,000 (rough estimate)
 Sweden 7,000
 Algeria 4,030
Languages
Palestinian territories and Israel:
Palestinian Arabic, Hebrew, English, Neo-Aramaic, and Greek
Diaspora:
Other varieties of Arabic, the vernacular languages of other countries in the Palestinian diaspora
Religion
Majority: Sunni Islam
Minority: Christianity, Samaritanism,Druze, Shia Islam, non-denominational Muslims
Related ethnic groups
Other Levantines, other Semitic-speaking peoples, Jews (Ashkenazim, Mizrahim, Sephardim), Assyrians, Samaritans, other Arabs, and other Mediterranean peoples.
Country or region Population
Palestinian Territories (Gaza Strip and West Bank including East Jerusalem) 4,420,549
Jordan 2,700,000
Israel 1,318,000
Chile 500,000 (largest community outside the Arab world)
Syria 434,896
Lebanon 405,425
Saudi Arabia 327,000
The Americas 225,000
Egypt 44,200
Kuwait (approx) 40,000
Other Gulf states 159,000
Other Arab states 153,000
Other countries 308,000
TOTAL 10,574,521

The Palestinian people (Arabic: الشعب الفلسطيني‎‎, ash-sha‘b al-Filasṭīnī), also referred to as Palestinians (Arabic: الفلسطينيون‎‎, al-Filasṭīniyyūn, Hebrew: פָלַסְטִינִים‎) or Palestinian Arabs (Arabic: العربي الفلسطيني‎‎, al-'arabi il-filastini), are an ethnonational group comprising the modern descendants of the peoples who have lived in Palestine over the centuries, including Jews and Samaritans, and who today are largely culturally and linguistically Arab. Despite various wars and exoduses (such as that in 1948), roughly one half of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in historic Palestine, the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Israel. In this combined area, as of 2005, Palestinians constituted 49% of all inhabitants, encompassing the entire population of the Gaza Strip (1.865 million), the majority of the population of the West Bank (approximately 2,785,000 versus close to 500,000 Jewish Israeli citizens which includes about 200,000 in East Jerusalem), and 20.8% of the population of Israel proper as Arab citizens of Israel. Many are Palestinian refugees or internally displaced Palestinians, including more than a million in the Gaza Strip, three-quarters of a million in the West Bank, and about a quarter of a million in Israel proper. Of the Palestinian population who live abroad, known as the Palestinian diaspora, more than half are stateless lacking citizenship in any country. Between 2.1 and 3.24 million of the diaspora population live in neighboring Jordan, over 1 million live between Syria and Lebanon, a quarter of a million in Saudi Arabia, with Chile's half a million representing the largest concentration outside the Arab world.


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