In June 2024, a claim circulated online that Google had "removed" Palestine from Google Maps: This X post (archived) had gained 252,300 views as of this writing. "Google, #PutPalestineBack on the ...

Historic Palestine map [Al Jazeera] The outline map of historic Palestine represents the geographical area associated with the region before the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.

Prior to 1948, Palestine was held under a British mandate after the U.K. seized the region from the Ottoman Empire during World War I and issued the Balfour Declaration in 1917, promising to ...

Palestinian Arabs inhabited the area because the Ottoman Empire controlled most of the land bordering the Mediterranean Sea — including the Israel and Palestine territories — from 1516-1918.

When searching for "Palestine" on Google Maps, the map zooms in on the Israel-Palestine region, and both the Gaza Strip and West Bank territories are labeled and separated by dotted lines. But ...