Palestinian Salvadorans
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Palestinian Salvadorans (Spanish: Salvadoreños Palestinos; Arabic: فلسطينيو السلفادور), are Salvadoran citizens of Palestinian descent or Palestine-born people residing in El Salvador. There are approximately 100,000 Salvadorans with Palestinian ancestry.[2]
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Total population | ||||
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100,000 [1] | ||||
Regions with significant populations | ||||
San Salvador | ||||
Languages | ||||
Spanish · Palestinian Arabic | ||||
Religion | ||||
Christianity · 95%, Islam 5% . | ||||
Related ethnic groups | ||||
Other Arab Salvadoran |
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The Palestinian community in El Salvador is the second largest in Central America.
The first Palestinians arrived in the late 19th, but they continued to arrive in the early 20th century, during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, thousands of Palestinians arrived in El Salvador.