West Bank

The West Bank Administrative Region (Arabic: محافظة الضفة الغربية الادارية) is one of the five administrative regions of Palestine, so named because it forms the west bank of the River Jordan. With fourteen counties, it has the most counties of the five administrative regions, including the agglomerated city-county of Jerusalem which acts as the national capital. It has the second-largest population of the regions, after the Mediterranean Region.