
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.

| Short name | PALESTINE |
| ISO code | PS |
| FIPS code | GZ, WE |
| Languages | Arabic (ar) |
| Time zone | +2 ~ |
| Capital |
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.


Palestine is divided into two districts.
| District | HASC | FIPS | Population | Area(km.²) | Area(mi.²) | Capital |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gaza | PS.GZ | GZ | 1,022,207 | 363 | 140 | Gaza |
| West Bank | PS.WE | WE | 1,873,476 | 5,879 | 2,270 | Ariha (Jericho) |
| 2 districts | 2,895,683 | 6,242 | 2,410 | |||
| ||||||
See the Governorates of Palestine page.

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.

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