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Refugee camp in Amman Governorate, Jordan
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.
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 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 | |
| Aqabat Jaber | 6,400 |
| Ein as-Sultan | 1,900 |
| Far'a | 7,600 |
| Fawwar | 8,000 |
| Jalazone | 11,000 |
| Qalandia | 11,000 |
| Am'ari | 10,500 |
| Deir 'Ammar | 2,400 |
| Dheisheh | 13,000 |
| Aida | 4,700 |
| Al-Arroub | 10,400 |
| Askar | 15,900 |
| Balata | 23,600 |
| 'Azza (Beit Jibrin) | 1,000 |
| Ein Beit al-Ma' (Camp No. 1) | 6,750 |
| Tulkarm | 18,000 |
| Nur Shams | 9,000 |
| Jenin | 16,000 |
| Shu'fat | 11,000 |
| Silwad |
| Birzeit |
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| Sabinah | 22,600 |
| Khan al-Shih | 20,000 |
| Nayrab | 20,500 |
| Homs | 22,000 |
| Jaramana | 18,658 |
| Daraa | 10,000 |
| Hama | 8,000 |
| Khan Danoun | 10,000 |
| Qabr Essit | 23,700 |
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| Unofficial camps |
| Ein Al-Tal | 6,000 |
| Latakia | 10,000 |
| Yarmouk | 148,500 |
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| Bourj el-Barajneh | 17,945 |
| Ain al-Hilweh | 54,116 |
| El Buss | 11,254 |
| Nahr al-Bared | 5,857 |
| Shatila | 9,842 |
| Wavel | 8,806 |
| Mar Elias | 662 |
| Mieh Mieh | 5,250 |
| Beddawi | 16,500 |
| Burj el-Shamali | 22,789 |
| Dbayeh | 4,351 |
| Rashidieh | 31,478 |
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| Former camps |
| Tel al-Zaatar | ? |
| Nabatieh | ? |
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| 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 | ? |
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| 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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