Countries Recognising the State of Palestine

 

Sweden is the first EU member state in Western Europe to recognise the Palestinian state.

Seven EU members in eastern European and the Mediterranean have already recognised a Palestinian state - Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Malta, Poland, and Romania.

Non-EU member Iceland is the only other western European nation to have done so.

Of the 193 member states of the United Nations, 135 (69.9%) have recognized the State of Palestine as of Sep 27,2013