Palestine vs United Kingdom

United Kingdom is 39 times larger than Palestine — 243,610 against 6,220 km². United Kingdom is 13 times more populous than Palestine — 69,487,000 against 5,413,596 people.

Side by side

Population density

Palestine is 3.1 times more densely populated than United Kingdom — 870 against 285 people per km². Density is where area and population interact, and it often reverses the impression the headline figures give — a large country with a small population can feel emptier than a small crowded one by an enormous margin.

Practical differences

• They drive on opposite sides — Palestine on the right, United Kingdom on the left.
• Different currencies: the Israeli new shekel and the British pound.
• Different continents — Asia and Europe.

Palestine

The territory is in two separate parts: the West Bank, about 5,860 km², and the Gaza Strip, about 360 km². The West Bank includes the northern shore of the Dead Sea, the lowest exposed land on Earth at roughly 430 m below sea level. Jericho, in the Jordan Valley, is among the oldest continuously inhabited settlements known, with remains going back around 11,000 years.

United Kingdom

Made up of Great Britain, the north-east of Ireland and around 6,000 smaller islands. No point in the UK is more than about 113 km from the sea. Ben Nevis, the highest point, is 1,345 m, which is modest — but the country has around 31,000 km of coastline once every inlet is counted.

Neutral facts only. Nothing here addresses politics, government, economics or which country is preferable in any respect — population is the one figure that dates, and it carries its year.