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Refugees and also Jordanian citizens
Ethnic group
Palestinians in Jordan
refers mainly to those with
Palestinian refugee
status currently residing there. Sometimes the definition includes Jordanian citizens with full
Palestinian origin
. Most Palestinian ancestors came to
Jordan
as Palestinian refugees between 1947 and 1967.
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Today, most Palestinians and their descendants in Jordan are naturalized, making Jordan the only Arab country to fully integrate the Palestinian refugees of 1948, as the
West Bank
was
annexed
and held by Jordan between 1948 and 1967.
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Population
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In Jordan, there is no official census data for how many inhabitants are Palestinians and it rather depends on the definition of who is a Palestinian.
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Some 2.18 million Palestinians were registered as refugees in 2016.
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As of 2014, around 370,000 live in
ten refugee camps
, with the biggest one being
Baqa'a refugee camp
with over 104,000 residents, followed by
Al-Wehdat refugee camp
with over 51,500 residents.
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Minority Rights Group International
estimated that there are around 3 million Palestinians in Jordan.
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Palestinians are overwhelmingly concentrated in northern and central Jordan, specifically in the
Amman Governorate
,
Zarqa Governorate
and
Irbid Governorate
.
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Notable people
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This is a list of notable Palestinians in Jordan and people of Palestinian ancestry:
- Anwar Nusseibeh
, politician
- Ahmad Toukan
, politician
- Amer Shafi
, footballer
- Emad Hajjaj
, cartoonist
- Hassan Abdel-Fattah
, footballer
- Ibrahim Nasrallah
, poet and novelist
- Princess Firyal of Jordan
, princess
- Samir al-Rifai
, politician
- Queen Alia of Jordan
, third wife of
King Hussein
- Queen Rania of Jordan
, wife of
King Abdullah II
- Hanan Al-Agha
, plastic artist
- Eyad Nassar
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]
, actor
See also
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Bibliography
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References
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