Palestinians in Egypt refers to the Palestinian refugees who fled to Egypt during the 1948 Palestine war, and their descendants, as well as Palestinians expelled from Jordan, following the events of Black September. Some Palestinians and their descendants have never been naturalized and so keep the distinct status of Palestinian refugee. Other Palestinians, mostly Christians, received Egyptian citizenship through marriage with Egyptian nationals or by other means.
There was also an earlier wave of Palestinian immigration, in which Palestinian Christians settled in Egypt during the Ottoman era, along with Lebanese and Syrians, forming what was known as the "Shawam" (شوام) community.
Estimates of the size of the Palestinian population in Egypt range from 270,245 to 300,000.