anything more than approximate estimates of the population.
The population of Palestine (exclusive of Trans-jordania and exclusive of the British garrison) is estimated as follows (1922):
| Moslems | 583,188 |
| Christians | 84,559 |
| Jews | 79,293 |
| Druses | 7,034 |
| Metawileh | 160 |
| Baha'is | 158 |
| Samaritans | 157 |
| Total, | 754,549 |
The Moslem total includes not only Arabs and Syrians, but a number of Circassian, Magharbeh (North African) and Bosnian immigrants and a few Turkoman nomads.
The Christian total includes adherents of the Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Greek Uniate (Melchite), Anglican, Armenian (Gregorian), Armenian Uniate, Jacobite, Jacobite Uniate (Syrian), Coptic, Abyssinian, Abyssinian Uniate, Maronite, Chaldaean (Nestorian Uniate), Lutheran and other Churches.
The British population (exclusive of the garrison) is estimated at 1,100 souls.
The density of the population is about 80 to the square mile.
Principal Towns.—The following towns have a population of 10,000 and over (the figures are approximate):
| Population. | |
| Jerusalem | 64,000 |
| Jaffa | 45,100 |
| Haifa | 39,000 |
| Nablus | 20,600 |
| Hebron | 16,300 |
| Gaza | 15,000 |
| Safed | 12,500 |
| Ramleh | 10,000 |
