West Bank

West Bank

The West Bank is the larger of the two Palestinian territories that make up Palestine. A landlocked territory located on the western bank of the Jordan River near the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in West Asia's Levant region, it is bordered by Jordan and the Dead Sea to the east, and by Israel to the south, west, and north. Since 1967, the territory has been under Israeli occupation, which is illegal under international law. The territory first emerged in the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War as a region occupied and subsequently annexed by Jordan. Jordan ruled the territory until the 1967 Six-Day War, when it was occupied by Israel. Since then, Israel has administered the West Bank as the Judea and Samaria Area. Jordan continued to claim the territory as its own until 1988.

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• Entity:  Infobox

• Languages:  Arabic, Hebrew
• Religion:  Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Samaritanism
• Currency:  Israeli Shekel (Ils), Jordanian Dinar (Jod)
• Wikidata description:  Palestinian Territory On The Western Bank Of The Jordan River, Occupied By Israel
• Wikidata label:  West Bank
• Wikidata aliases:  West Bank, Cisjordan, Judea And Samaria, Westbank

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