State of Palestine
Asia Occidental
Ancient · Resilient · Sacred
Jericho, in the West Bank, is considered the world's oldest continuously inhabited city, with evidence of permanent settlement going back 11,000 years — making it older than the wheel.
Más allá de la capital, las principales ciudades son Gaza City, Hebron, Nablus — cada una un centro de cultura regional, economía e historia. Ramallah serves as the Palestinian Authority's administrative capital in the West Bank, while Jerusalem is the claimed capital of a future Palestinian state — the city of Ramallah has developed a cosmopolitan café culture and cultural infrastructure (including the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music and the Ramallah Cultural Palace) that asserts urban normality under occupation conditions.
El idioma oficial es árabe, que refleja el patrimonio cultural del país y lo conecta con una amplia comunidad internacional. Internacionalmente, Palestine se contacta mediante el código +970. Palestinians maintain cultural identity through the nakba (catastrophe) of 1948 — when 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes during Israel's founding — as a foundational collective memory transmitted through family stories, the preservation of house keys from abandoned villages, and a political claim to return that the second and third generations born in exile maintain as an identity anchor.
Palestine comparte sus fronteras con Egipto, Jordania, Israel. El tráfico rodado circula por la derecha, en consonancia con la convención de
La vida económica y cotidiana se rige por la zona horaria de UTC+02:00, alineando el país con sus vecinos regionales.
Musakhan — chicken roasted over taboon flatbread layered with caramelised onions, sumac, and toasted pine nuts — is considered Palestine's national dish, a preparation whose sumac-sharp flavour and the distinctive taboon clay oven bread connect the dish to specific Palestinian agricultural and baking traditions that the refugees who left in 1948 carried in their culinary memory to Lebanon, Jordan, and further diaspora destinations.
Football is Palestine's primary sport, with the national team competing in AFC qualification representing a state not recognised by all FIFA members — but the marathon through the West Bank (the Palestine Marathon held since 2013, the world's only marathon under military occupation, with a route deliberately not forming a closed loop because of checkpoint restrictions on movement) uses sport as a statement of territorial existence.
The Palestinian landscape of olive groves — some trees over 2,000 years old, identified by Palestinian families as ancestral property — is not only agricultural but existential: the olive harvest is both economic activity and territorial assertion in areas where settlers have uprooted trees and blocked access to land, making the olive a symbol of Palestinian rootedness more powerful than any explicitly political monument.