Map of Palestine

Palestine is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 31.9° N, 35.2° E. It shares land borders with 3 countries — Egypt, Israel and Jordan — and also has its own coastline. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Palestine is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Palestine shares land frontiers with the following 3 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Palestine covers about 6,220 km² (2,402 sq mi). That makes it the 165th-largest country in the world by area and the 45th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 4 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 5,483,450, the 119th-largest in the world and the 37th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Palestine has an average population density of about 882 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 37th by population and 45th by area.

The seat of government is Ramallah and Jerusalem, and the official currency is the Egyptian pound (EGP, E£), and the main official language is Arabic. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+02:00.

Palestine carries the ISO country codes PS and PSE, dials on the international calling code +970 and uses the .ps, فلسطين. internet domain.

Palestine shares its land borders with 3 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Egypt (capital Cairo, about 107,271,260 people), Jordan (capital Amman, about 11,734,000 people) and Israel (capital Jerusalem, about 10,134,800 people).

By area, Palestine is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 31.9° N, 35.2° E and opens at zoom level 8, framing Palestine within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Ramallah. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Palestine lies about 3,541 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Palestine keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+02:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +02:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

Palestine recognises more than one official currency: Egyptian pound (EGP, E£), Israeli new shekel (ILS, ₪) and Jordanian dinar (JOD, JD).

The official language is Arabic, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +970 and websites commonly use the .ps, فلسطين. internet domain.

In short, Palestine is a coastal country in Asia, sharing land borders with 3 countries. Its capital is Ramallah and Jerusalem. Palestine has a population of about 5,483,450 and covers around 6,220 km² (2,402 sq mi), ranking it 119th in the world by population and 165th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Palestine.

The flag of Palestine has three equal horizontal stripes of black, white, and green overlaid by a red triangle issuing from the hoist.

The flag of Palestine is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.