Districts of Palestine

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Updates: 

ISO 3166-2 Newsletter Number I-3 was published on 2002-08-20. It adds a country header for "Palestinian Territory, Occupied", with no subdivisions reported, to bring the two standards documents (3166-1 and 3166-2) into conformity.

The United Nations Statistics Division has decided to establish "Occupied Palestinian Territory" as a country name. The policy of the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency  is to issue a new country code for any entity thus recognized. ISO had already reserved the code PS for a possible future Palestinian state. On October 1, 1999, the Maintenance Agency published update V-2 to International standard ISO 3166-1. This update announces that the code has actually been assigned. The French name associated with the new country code is "Territoire palestinien occupé".

The Global Statistics  site has posted this information about Palestine. The source it cites is "The Palestinian Population, Housing and Establishment Census - 1997, Final Results", Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.

Country overview: 

The Gaza Strip and the West Bank are listed under Palestine in this work, merely because the international standard has issued a code for "Occupied Palestinian Territory". No inference should be drawn about the actual or rightful status of these territories.

The status of this area is currently in flux. The government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority both exercise control, to varying extents, over various parts of the territories.

Other names of country: 

1. Danish: De Palæstinensiske Selvstyreområder
2. Dutch: Palestina, Staat Palestina
3. Finnish: Palestiina
4. French: Palestine f, Territoire m Palestinien Occupé
5. German: Palästina n, Palästinensische Autonomiegebiete np
6. Icelandic: Palestína
7. Italian: Autorità f Palestinese, Palestina
8. Norwegian: Palestina
9. Portuguese: Palestina, Estado m da Palestina f (formal)
10. Spanish: Cisjordania y Franja de Gaza, Palestina
11. Turkish: Filistin

Primary subdivisions: 

Palestine is divided into two districts.

Further subdivisions:

See the Governorates of Palestine page.

Territorial extent: 

Gaza and the West Bank are two discontiguous blocks of land. Gaza is a narrow strip along the Mediterranean Sea; West Bank lies immediately to the west of the Jordan River.

Other names of subdivisions: 

Gaza: Gaza Strip (variant)
West Bank: Judea and Samaria (used by Israeli authorities); Northern (variant)