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Gaza Strip. The Egypt–Palestine border, [1] also called Egypt–Gaza border, is the 12-kilometre (7.5-mile) long border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. There is a buffer zone along the border which is about 14 kilometres (8.7 miles) long. The Rafah Border Crossing is the only crossing point
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Demographics of the State of Palestine Population pyramid of the State of Palestine in 2020 Population 1,997,328 (Gaza Strip – 2022 est.) 3,000,021 (West Bank – 2022 est.) Growth rate 2.02% (Gaza Strip – 2022 est.) 1.69% (West Bank – 2022 est.) Birth rate 27.67 births/1,000 population (Gaza ...
[8] [300] This leads to the Gaza Strip having an unusually high proportion of children in the population, with 43.5% of the population being 14 or younger and a median age in 2014 of 18, compared to a world average of 28, and 30 in Israel. The only countries with a lower median age are countries in Africa such as Uganda where it was 15.
The area is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Maps show that Israel and the Gaza Strip would cover only fractions of Southern California and the Los Angeles area, respectively.
Egypt borders Libya to the west, Palestine and Israel to the east and Sudan to the south (with a current dispute over the halaib triangle). Egypt has an area of 1,010,408 km 2 (390,121 sq mi). [1] [2] The longest straight-line distance in Egypt from north to south is 1,420 km (880 mi), while that from east to west measures 1,275 km (792 mi).
In 1967, war broke out between Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Syria. During the conflict, which became known as the Six-Day War, Israel seized Gaza and held it for nearly 40 years until 2005, when it ...
It is between the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea to the south, and is a land bridge between Asia and Africa. Sinai has a land area of about 60,000 km 2 (23,000 sq mi) (6 percent of Egypt's total area) and a population of approximately 600,000 people. [1]