Map of Palestine

Open Palestine on the map — framed on the country itself, not on every far-off island it holds — and look at it by population density, by the historical maps of its region, or with the open data below.

Facts

As the source states them, in the source’s own words.

CapitalRamallah
Area6,220 km²
CurrencyEGP (Egyptian pound)
LanguagesArabic

Source: mledoze/countries, IANA Time Zone Database, Natural Earth admin-0. Licence: ODbL 1.0, public domain.

Historical maps

IntMap’s historical maps of the regions this outline lies in, on every date the map draws them. A region is a frame on the map, not a statement that Palestine existed then: the names on each map are the ones the historical records give.

Map of the Middle East Map of Africa

Dated events in this outline

Events of IntMap’s war record dated to a place inside today’s outline of Palestine. Each links to the page of its calendar day, which opens the map on that day.

  1. 1917

    Battle of Rafa — the last Ottoman post in Sinai falls and the campaign crosses the frontier

    World War I · IntMap’s war record

    9 January →
  2. 1917

    First Battle of Gaza — the town is all but taken and then given back the same evening

    World War I · IntMap’s war record

    26 March →
  3. 1917

    Second Battle of Gaza — a frontal attack with gas and tanks fails in three days

    World War I · IntMap’s war record

    17 April →
  4. 1917

    Third Battle of Gaza — the town falls at the third attempt and the road to Jerusalem opens

    World War I · IntMap’s war record

    1 November →
  5. 1918

    Battle of Nablus — the Ottoman Seventh and Eighth Armies are broken in the Judean hills

    World War I · IntMap’s war record

    19 September →
  6. 1948

    Battles of Latrun

    Arab–Israeli Wars · IntMap’s war record

    24 May →
  7. 1955

    The Gaza raid — the reprisal operations begin

    Arab–Israeli Wars · IntMap’s war record

    28 February →
  8. 1957

    The withdrawal is completed and the United Nations Emergency Force takes over Gaza and Sharm el-Sheikh

    Arab–Israeli Wars · IntMap’s war record

    8 March →

Open data about Palestine

The datasets IntMap may share about Palestine, each under its own terms. The values are in one file: api/v1/countries/PSE.json

country-facts

ODbL 1.0, public domain · Requires: credit · share-alike

Credit: mledoze/countries, IANA Time Zone Database, Natural Earth admin-0

health

CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike · non-commercial

Credit: WHO Global Health Observatory — UHC service coverage index & IHR SPAR (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO), World Bank Open Data

mobility

ODbL 1.0, public domain, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike

Credit: OpenFlights — airline route database (country-pair route counts for the pandemic simulator; snapshot of June 2014, no longer updated; ODbL 1.0), OurAirports, World Bank Open Data, Country facts — mledoze/countries (capital, currency, languages, land borders, UN membership, demonym; ODbL 1.0, build time only)

What this page states

The outline, the name and the code are Natural Earth’s (admin-0, public domain), the set IntMap’s map draws countries from. The map opens on the frame the app’s country search uses for it: the country itself, not every far-off island it holds.

A historical map is listed when its region’s frame overlaps this outline. It is listed for the place, not for the country: the borders on it are what the historical records draw.

An event is listed when the point the war record gives it falls inside this outline — a fact about the point, not about which state held the place at the time.

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