Mandatory Palestine Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Land ownership by type==== The land owned privately and collectively by Jews, Arabs and other non-Jews can be classified as urban, rural built-on, cultivable (farmed), and uncultivable. The following chart shows the ownership by Jews, Arabs and other non-Jews in each of the categories. {|class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;" |+ Land ownership of Palestine (in square kilometres) on 1 April 1943 |- ! Category !! Arab / non-Jewish ownership !! Jewish ownership !! Total |-<!-- Original figures in dunams, now converted to km2.ha --> |align="left"| Urban || {{rnd|76662/1000|2}} || {{rnd|70111/1000|2}} || {{rnd|146773/1000|2}} |- |align="left"| Rural built-on || {{rnd|36851/1000|2}} || {{rnd|42330/1000|2}} || {{rnd|79181/1000|2}} |- |align="left"| Cereal (taxable) || {{rnd|5503183/1000|2}} || {{rnd|814102/1000|2}} || {{rnd|6317285/1000|2}} |- |align="left"| Cereal (not taxable) || {{rnd|900294/1000|2}} || {{rnd|51049/1000|2}} || {{rnd|951343/1000|2}} |- |align="left"| Plantation || {{rnd|1079788/1000|2}} || {{rnd|95514/1000|2}} || {{rnd|1175302/1000|2}} |- |align="left"| Citrus || {{rnd|145572/1000|2}} || {{rnd|141188/1000|2}} || {{rnd|286760/1000|2}} |- |align="left"| Banana || {{rnd|2300/1000|2}} || {{rnd|1430/1000|2}} || {{rnd|3730/1000|2}} |- |align="left"| Uncultivable || {{rnd|16925805/1000|2}} || {{rnd|298523/1000|2}} || {{rnd|17224328/1000|2}} |-style="background:#f2f2f2; font-weight:bold" |align="left"| Total | {{rnd|24670455/1000|2}} || {{rnd|1514247/1000|2}} || {{rnd|26184702/1000|2}} |- |colspan="7" style="background:#e9e9e9;font-size:90%;"| Data is from Survey of Palestine (vol. II, p. 566).<ref name=AngloAmCom/><ref>[http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Articles/Story1000.html Ownership of land in Palestine, Share of Palestinan (sic) Arabs and Jews as of 1 April 1943, prepared by the British Mandate for the United Nations] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929194842/http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Articles/Story1000.html |date=29 September 2018 }} Survey of Palestine Retrieved 25 August 2014</ref> By the end of 1946, Jewish ownership had increased to 1624 km<sup>2</sup>.<ref>''ibid'', Supplement p30.</ref> |} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page