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By The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Last Updated: Jun 9, 2025

Source: Britannica

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Quick Facts

Population:

(2025 est.) 4,209,0001

Official Name(S):

West Bank; Al-Ḍaffah al-Gharbiyyah (Arabic); Ha-gadah Ha-maʾaravit (Hebrew)

Total Area (Sq Km):

5,660

Total Area (Sq Mi):

2,185

Arabic:

Al-Ḍaffah al-Gharbiyyah

Geography

The principal Palestinian municipalities of the West Bank are Jenin, Nablus, and Ramallah north of Jerusalem and Bethlehem and Hebron (Al-Khalīl) south of Jerusalem. Jericho (Arīḥā) is the chief municipality of the Jordan River valley. Tulkarm, which straddles the armistice border, serves as a hub—albeit a restricted one—between the northern municipalities of the West Bank and the Tel Aviv metropolitan area in Israel. Several small universities in the West Bank (founded or attaining university status in the 1970s) enroll mostly Palestinian students.

Many Palestinians were displaced after the 1948 and 1967 wars. About 300,000 Palestinians (most of whom were originally from territory captured by Israel in 1948) left the impoverished West Bank for Transjordan (later Jordan) during the year after the 1948 war; and about 380,000 Palestinians fled the West Bank after it was captured by the Israelis in 1967. Between 1967 and 1977 an estimated 6,300 Palestinians were evicted from East Jerusalem and replaced by Jewish immigrants, and more than 10,000 others lost their residency rights between 1995 and 2010.

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