Refugee Camp - Notable Camps

Notable Camps

Notable refugee camps:

• Camps in the east of Chad, such as Breidjing Camp, hosting approximately 250,000 refugees from the Darfur region in Sudan (since 2002)
• Buduburam refugee camp, home to more than 12,000 Liberians (opened 1990)
• Camps in the south of Chad, hosting approximately 50,000 refugees from Central African Republic
• Dadaab refugee camps in North Eastern Kenya
• Palestine refugee camps (opened from 1948 and forward)
• Camps on the Thai-Cambodian border between 1979 and 1993: Nong Samet, Nong Chan, Sa Kaeo, Site Two, Khao-I-Dang
• Philippine Refugee Processing Center for Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian refugees fleeing wars in Indochina.
• Four Sahrawi refugee camps near Tindouf, Algeria (opened circa 1976)
• Camps for Sri Lankan Tamils, 110,000 in India in 1998, and more than 560,000 internally displaced
• Israeli immigrant camps (1947–1950) and Ma'abarot transition camps (1950–1963) to accommodate Jewish refugees and immigrants in Israel.
• Niatak refugee camp of Afghan refugees in Iran.
• Lampedusa immigrant reception center for refugees, asylum seekers and illegal immigrants on the Italian island of Lampedusa.
• Ras Ajdir refugee camp on Libyan-Tunisian border, housing more than 30,000 Libyan refugees(opened 2011)
• Hatay Province (Turkey) camps for refugees of the Syrian civil war (opened 2011)
• Dzaleka Refugee Camp in the Dowa District of Malawi.