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The Gaza Strip is 41 kilometres (25 miles) long, from 6 to 12 km (3.7 to 7.5 mi) wide, and has a total area of 365 km 2 (141 sq mi). [27] [9] With around 2 million Palestinians [9] on approximately 365 km 2 (141 sq mi) of land, Gaza has one of the world's highest population densities.
Gaza, [b] also called Gaza City, is a city in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. As of 2022, it was the largest city in the State of Palestine, with 590,481 inhabitants in 2017. The city is spread across an area of 45 square kilometres (17 sq mi). Gaza is one of the principal coastal cities in the country, home to Palestine's only port.
It has a total land area of 6,020 square kilometres (2,320 sq mi) while its population exceeds five million people. Its proclaimed capital is Jerusalem, while Ramallah serves as its administrative center. Gaza City was its largest city prior to evacuations in 2023. [2] [3]
With over two million Palestinians living within roughly 140 square miles, Gaza is “one of the world’s most densely populated territories”, with half of its occupants under the age of 19 ...
The urban area around Gaza City is home to nearly 2 million people living in an 88-square-mile expanse, which is about 21,000 people per square mile.
Gaza is a narrow strip of land, only about 25 miles long and seven miles wide – just over twice the size of Washington DC. To its west lies the Mediterranean Sea, to its north and east is Israel ...
By 2022, the population of the Gaza strip had increased to an estimated 2,375,259, [155] corresponding to a density of more than 6,507 people per square kilometre. Both Israeli and Palestinian statistics include Arab residents of East Jerusalem in their reports.
The U.N. estimates that most of Gaza’s 2.2 million people are now confined to an area of roughly 15 square miles — about two-thirds the size of Manhattan — causing crowded conditions and a ...