Palestine Census Completed

The Associated Press, Jerusalem

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“Palestine has a total population of 757,182, according to the figures of the census of three months ago. This figure equals approximately the population of the city of Boston as given by the official count in 1920. Ten per cent of the people in Palestine are given as Christian; 11 per cent as Jews, and 79 per cent—”

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The whole question, answered by a wire service in 1923. Seven hundred and fifty-seven thousand, one hundred and eighty-two people, counted by the government that ran the place, and translated for American readers into a city they knew. The size of Boston.

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"Palestine Census Completed," The Madison Courier, 13 March 1923. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1923-001. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1923-001

This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American and Anglophone newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1812 to 2022. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.

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