How did the 1947 United Nations partition plan propose to divide Palestine?

In November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 181, which proposed the partition of Palestine into independent Arab and Jewish states, with an economic union between them.12

Key components of the plan included:

• Territorial Division: The plan allotted slightly more than half of the land west of the Jordan River to the Jewish state. The town of Gaza and its surrounding territory were designated to be part of the Arab state.23
• Jerusalem: The city of Jerusalem and its environs, including Bethlehem, were to be established as a corpus separatum ("separate entity") governed by a special international regime under the administration of the United Nations.142

The proposal was accepted by the Jewish community but rejected by the Arab community. The plan was never implemented, as the British mandate ended on May 15, 1948, and the region was immediately engulfed in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.1234