Palestinians in Jordan refers mainly to those with

Palestinian refugee Palestinian refugees are citizens of Mandatory Palestine, and their descendants, who fled or were expelled from their country, village or house over the course of the 1948 Palestine war and during the 1967 Six-Day War. Most Palestinian refug ...

status currently residing there. Sometimes the definition includes Jordanian citizens with full Palestinian origin. Most Palestinian ancestors came to

Jordan Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter ...

as Palestinian refugees between 1947 and 1967. 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 The West Bank is located on the western bank of the Jordan River and is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip) that make up the State of Palestine. A landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...

was

annexed Annexation, in international law, is the forcible acquisition and assertion of legal title over one state's territory by another state, usually following military occupation of the territory. In current international law, it is generally held to ...

and held by Jordan between 1948 and 1967.

Population

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 The Baqa'a refugee camp (), first created in 1968, lies 20 km north of the Jordanian capital Amman, and is home to around 100,000 Palestinians, Palestinian refugees who are registered as such with the United Nations.UNWRA''Baqa'a refugee c ...

with over 104,000 residents, followed by

Al-Wehdat refugee camp Amman New Camp, usually known as the Al-Wehdat or Al-Wihdat camp (), which is located in the Hay Al Awdah neighbourhood in southeast Amman, the capital city of Jordan, occupies a , Of the ten recognized Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan, Al-We ...

with over 51,500 residents.

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estimated that there are around 3 million Palestinians in Jordan. Palestinians are overwhelmingly concentrated in northern and central Jordan, specifically in the

Amman Governorate Amman Governorate, officially known as Muhafazat al-Asima (, English language, English translation: the Capital Governorate), is one of the governorates in Jordan. The governorate's capital is the city of Amman, which is also the country's capi ...

Zarqa Governorate Zarqa Governorate ( ''Muħāfazat az-Zarqāʔ'', local dialects ''ez-Zergā'' or ''ez-Zer'a'') is the third largest governorate in Jordan by population. The capital of Zarqa governorate is Zarqa City, which is the largest city in the governorate. ...

and

Irbid Governorate Irbid or Irbed () 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, and the highest ...

Notable people

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

Anwar Nusseibeh Anwar Bey Nuseibeh () 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. After the Six Day War h ...

, politician *

Ahmad Toukan Ahmad Toukan (; 15 August 1903 – 5 January 1981) was a Jordanian political leader of Palestinian descent. He was briefly the 20th Prime Minister of Jordan from 26 September 1970 to 28 October 1970, during a crackdown that drove the PLO gueri ...

, politician *

Amer Shafi Amer Shafi Mahmoud Sabbah (; born 14 February 1982) is a Jordanian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Club career Shafi began his career as a midfielder and later on became a goalkeeper. After playing many years for Al-Yarmouk, he j ...

, footballer *

Emad Hajjaj Emad Hajjaj () is a Palestinian-Jordanian editorial cartoonist. He is best known for his work in '' Al Ra'i'' and the ''Jordan Times'' daily newspapers. Early life Emad was born in Jordan's West Bank in 1967. He received his art education at Y ...

, cartoonist *

Hassan Abdel-Fattah Hassan Abdel-Fattah Mahmoud Al-Mahsiri () is a Jordanian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. International goals :''Scores and results list Jordan's goal tally first.'' Participation in International Tourname ...

, footballer *

Ibrahim Nasrallah Ibrahim Nasrallah (; 2 December 1954), the winner of the Arabic Booker Prize (2018), was born in 1954 to Palestinian parents who were evicted from their land in Al-Burayj, Palestine in 1948. He spent his childhood and youth in a refugee camp ...

, poet and novelist *

Princess Firyal of Jordan Princess Firyal ( Firyal Irshaid ; born 1945) is a Jordanian humanitarian and philanthropist. She became a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in 1992, working on programs for education and protection of world heritage. She is a board member at the Inte ...

, princess *

Samir al-Rifai Samir al-Rifai (; 30 January 1901 –12 October 1965) was a Jordanian politician and statesman who served several terms as the 8th Prime Minister of Jordan. Al-Rifai served under Kings Abdullah I, Talal and Hussein: *Minister of Finance from 1 ...

, politician * Queen Alia of Jordan, third wife of

King Hussein Hussein bin Talal (14 November 1935 – 7 February 1999) was King of Jordan from 1952 until his death in 1999. As a member of the Hashemite dynasty, the royal family of Jordan since 1921, Hussein was traditionally considered a 40th-generati ...

Queen Rania of Jordan Rania Al Abdullah (born Rania Al-Yassin, 31 August 1970) is Queen of Jordan as the wife of King Abdullah II. Rania's domestic activities include education, youth, environmental, and health initiatives. Globally, she has campaigned for educati ...

, wife of

King Abdullah II Abdullah II (Abdullah bin Hussein; born 30 January 1962) is King of Jordan, having ascended the throne on 7 February 1999. He is a member of the Hashemites, who have been the reigning royal family of Jordan since 1921, and is traditionally reg ...

* Hanan Al-Agha, plastic artist *

Eyad Nassar Eyad Nassar (born November 9, 1971) is a Jordanian actor. He has gained widespread recognition for his roles in Egyptian cinema and television series. Nassar was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and raised in Amman, Jordan. He voiced the character Ba ...

, actor *

Musa Al-Taamari Mousa Mohammad Sulaiman Al-Taamari (; born 10 June 1997) is a Jordanian professional footballer who plays as a right winger for club Rennes and the Jordan national team. In the 2023 Asian Cup, he led his country to their first ever final. Mous ...

, football player * Zeyne, singer

Bibliography

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

References

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

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report {{Demographics of Jordan Ethnic groups in Jordan West Asian diaspora in Jordan

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