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 Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...

as Palestinian refugees between 1947 and 1967. Today, most Palestinians and their descendants in Jordan are fully naturalized, making Jordan the only Arab country to fully integrate the Palestinian refugees of 1948. 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. Some 2.18 million Palestinians were registered as refugees in 2016. 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 Amman New Camp (Wihdat) with over 51,500 residents. Palestinians are overwhelmingly concentrated in northern and central Jordan, specifically in the Amman Governorate, Zarqa Governorate and

Irbid Governorate Irbid or Irbed ( ar, إربد) is a governorate in Jordan, located north of Amman, the country's capital. The capital of the governorate is the city of Irbid. The governorate has the second largest population in Jordan after Amman Governorate, ...

Notable people

This is a list of notable Palestinians in Jordan and people of Palestinian ancestry: *

Anwar Nusseibeh Anwar Bey Nuseibeh ( ar, أنور نسيبة) Anwar Bey Nuseibeh (1913–1986) was a leading Palestinian who held several major posts in the Jordanian Government before Israel took control of East Jerusalem and the West Bank in the 1967 war. Af ...

, politician *

Ahmad Toukan Ahmad Toukan (Ahmad Tuqan) ( ar, أحمد طوقان; 15 August 1903 – 5 January 1981) was a Jordanian political leader of Palestinian descent who was the 20th Prime Minister of Jordan from 26 September 1970 to 28 October 1970. Overview Tuqa ...

, 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 Alia Al-Hussein ( ar, علياء الحسين, born Alia Bahauddin Toukan (); 25 December 1948 – 9 February 1977) was the Queen of Jordan and the third wife of King Hussein from their marriage in 1972 until her death in a helicopter crash in s ...

, third wife of King Hussein * Queen Rania of Jordan, wife of King Abdullah II * Hanan Al-Agha, plastic artist * , actor

Bibliography

* * * Sayigh Yusuf, 1984, Al-Urdunn wa-l-Filastiniyyun, Dirasah fi Wihdat al-Masir aw al-Sira’ al-Hatmi (Arabic), London, Riyad El-Rayyis Books

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Progress, challenges, diversity - Insights into the socio-economic conditions of Palestinian refugees in Jordan
2013

Fafo Foundation The Fafo Research Foundation, also known as the Fafo Foundation or just Fafo ( no, Forskningsstiftelsen Fafo), is a Norwegian research foundation and owner of the research institute: The ''Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research.'' The ins ...

report {{Demographics of Jordan Ethnic groups in Jordan Middle Eastern diaspora in Jordan

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