Jabal el-Hussein camp

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Jabal el-Hussein camp مخيم الحسين
Refugee camp

Jabal el-Hussein camp Location in Jordan
Coordinates: 31°57′52″N 35°54′23″E / 31.96444°N 35.90639°E / 31.96444; 35.90639
Country	Jordan
Governorate	Amman Governorate
Area
• Total	0.42 km² (0.16 sq mi)
Population (2019)
• Total	32,000
Time zone	UTC+2 (Eastern European Standard Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (Arabia Standard Time)

Jabal el-Hussein camp (Arabic: مخيم الحسين) is one of the 10 officially recognized UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. It is located outside of the Abdali area district of Amman.^[1]

It is one of the first four camps in Jordan founded to accommodate refugees from the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight,^[1] the others being Irbid camp, Al-Wehdat refugee camp and Zarqa Camp.

References

Palestine refugee camps locations and populations as of 2015^[1]

Gaza Strip
518,000 UNRWA refugees

West Bank
188,150 UNRWA refugees

Syria
319,958 UNRWA refugees

Lebanon
188,850 UNRWA refugees

Jordan
355,500 UNRWA refugees

Zarqa	20,000
Jabal el-Hussein	29,000
Amman New (Wihdat)	51,500
Souf	20,000
Baqa'a	104,000
Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti camp)	22,000
Irbid	25,000
Jerash	24,000
Marka	53,000
Talbieh	8,000
Al-Hassan	?
Madaba	?
Sokhna	?

References

^ "Camp Profiles". unrwa.org. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. Retrieved 2 July 2015.

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