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.

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