Palestinians

Ethnic group native to the Palestine region in Southwest Asia
Intangible ethnic_group Q201190
Palestinians
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Summary

Palestinians is an ethnic group[1]. Palestinians ranks in the top 1% of ethnic group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (20,560 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country of citizenship: Palestine[3]
  • Native language: Arabic[4]
  • Religion or worldview: Islam[5], Christianity[6], Judaism[7]
  • Country: Palestine[8]
  • Instance of: human population[9], ethnonational group[10]
  • Subclass of: people[11], Arabs of Palestine[12]
  • Part of: Arabs[13]
  • Commons category: People of Palestine[14]
  • Has part(s): Palestinians in Jordan[15], Palestinians in Syria[16], Palestinians in Lebanon[17], Palestinian refugee[18], Present absentee[19], Palestinian diaspora[20], Arab citizens of Israel[21], Palestinian Baha'is[22], Assyrians in Palestine[23], Palestinian Metawalis[24], Druze in Mandatory Palestine[25], Palestinian bedouin[26], Palestinian Christians[27], Kurds in Palestine[28]
  • Residence: Mandatory Palestine[29]
  • Topic's main category: Category:People from Palestine[30]
  • Commons gallery: Palestinians[31]
  • Described at URL: http://www.mar.umd.edu/assessment.asp?groupId=66603[32], http://www.mar.umd.edu/assessment.asp?groupId=66302[33], http://www.mar.umd.edu/assessment.asp?groupId=66003[34]
  • Population: 14,300,000[35]
  • Languages spoken, written or signed: Arabic[36]
  • Topic has template: Template:Palestinians[37]
  • Demonym: فلسطيني[38], فلسطينية[39]
  • Native label: فلسطينيون[40], فلسطينيّين[41]
  • History of topic: origin of the Palestinians[42], history of the Palestinian people[43], history of Palestinian nationality[44]
  • Indigenous to: Palestine[45]
  • Female form of label: فلسطينية[46]
  • Male form of label: فلسطيني[47]

Why It Matters

Palestinians has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[48] Palestinians is known by 82 alternative names across languages and contexts.[49]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [48] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [49] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 26d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → palestinian-arabs, palestinians, palestinian-arab
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: palestinian-arab, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289951432|palestinian arab (#289951432)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harpe"
  2. 4w ago · Bischrob · 2026-09-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sociomap id → SM256650
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Sociomap id: SM256650, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1789071553872"
  3. 9w ago · איש הישראלי · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → people, Arabs of Palestine
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Subclass of: Arabs of Palestine"
  4. 10w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → palestinian-arabs, palestinians, palestinian-arab
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: palestinian-arabs, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289951433|palestinian arabs (#289951433)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Har"
  5. 15w ago · ~2026-37046-04 · 2026-06-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Montage image → Palestinian infobox.jpg
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Montage image: Palestinian_infobox.jpg"
  6. 16w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2vysmO
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/37385|batch #37385]]: Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) (P14541)"
  7. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0266963-palestinsti-Arabove
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0266963-palestinsti-Arabove, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  8. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Montage image → Palestinian infobox.jpg
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007560755405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
  9. 20w ago · ~2026-30677-38 · 2026-05-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Flag image → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Flag image: Flag of Palestine.svg"
  10. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    Montage image → Palestinian infobox.jpg
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 20170, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  11. 23w ago · ~2026-26527-11 · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    Native label → فلسطينيون, فلسطينيّين
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Native label: فلسطينيّين"
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