East Jerusalem, capital of Palestine: facts and figures

Palestine claims East Jerusalem as its capital; Ramallah is its administrative seat. The city's status is disputed. The United Nations supports East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian State in a negotiated two-State solution. The population figure is the 2021 total of 607,100 residents, including all population groups, from the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research.

Key figures

Climate through the year

East Jerusalem averages 10.0 °C in winter and 24.9 °C in summer. January is the coldest month of the year and July the warmest, and the city receives 298 mm of precipitation in an average year.

Nearest capitals

Distances are great-circle distances between city centres, which is what the Capitals game measures when it tells you how far a guess was from the answer. Jerusalem is the closest capital to East Jerusalem.

How to remember it

Reading a figure once rarely fixes it in memory. Attach East Jerusalem to a place and a number you already know: it is 1 km from Jerusalem, and it is the 131st largest capital in the atlas. Then practise retrieving it. DailyGeo Capitals gives you one mystery capital a day with distance, direction, language and population clues, the memorising method explains the review schedule, and the capitals index lists all 175.

To see how Palestine compares with every other country on figures like these, the richest countries by GDP per capita ranks them on geopolitix, a country-ranking game by the same maker as DailyGeo.

Sources

• City population and coordinates: DailyGeo's own game data, the same figures the Capitals game plays with. Population follows the urban area rather than the commune, which is why no density is quoted.
• Temperature and rainfall: ten-year means (2015 to 2024) computed from ERA5 reanalysis, retrieved through Open-Meteo. Hersbach, H., et al. (2020). The ERA5 global reanalysis. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.
• Elevation: terrain height at the city's coordinates in the Copernicus DEM, read through Open-Meteo rather than taken from a curated claim.
• Time zone: resolved from the same coordinates.
• Country figures: the World Bank, latest reported year for each series: Country GDP, GDP per capita, Country population, Life expectancy, Internet users.
• This capital elsewhere: Wikipedia, UNdata, Wikidata.
• Method and limits: How this data was collected explains how each figure was collected and what it does not cover.

The short answer

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