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Tel al-Sultan Refugee Camp

Tel al-Sultan or Tall as-Sultan is one of eight Palestinian refugee camps in the Gaza Strip. It is located in the just north of city and .
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  • Type: Suburb with 24,400 residents
  • Description: refugee camp in Rafah Governorate
  • Also known as: “Tel al-Sultan refugee camp” and “Tell es-Sultan”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bnei Atzmon and Slav.

Ruins
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was an Israeli settlement previously in the , later moved to the before being destroyed in 2005.

Ruins
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was an Israeli settlement in the Gush Katif settlement bloc, located in the south-west edge of the that existed until 2005.

Ruins
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Rafiah Yam was an Israeli settlement in the that existed until 2005.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Canada Camp and Rafah Refugee Camp.

Locality
was a Palestinian refugee camp in the northern near , formed in 1972 and evacuated in 2000. The Camp was named after the Canadian contingent of the United Nations Emergency Force, which formerly had a camp at the location.

Suburb
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Rafah Camp is one of eight Palestinian refugee camps in the . It is located in the along the Gaza–Egypt border. It was established in 1949 and currently forms part of the city of . is situated 3 km south of Tel al-Sultan Refugee Camp.

Town
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is a city in the southern , , and the capital of the . It is located 30 kilometers south-west of . In 2017, had a population of 171,889. is situated 4 km south of Tel al-Sultan Refugee Camp.

Tel al-Sultan Refugee Camp

Latitude
31.30901° or 31° 18′ 32″ north
Longitude
34.24317° or 34° 14′ 35″ east
Population
24,400
Open location code
8G3P865V+J7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 329780744
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­refugee_site
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Wiki­data ID
Q7679994
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Tel al-Sultan Refugee Camp” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مخيم تل السلطان”
  • Arabic: “معسكر تل السلطان”
  • Basque: “Tel al-Sultan”
  • Catalan: “Tel al-Sultan”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەمپی تەل سووڵتان”
  • Chinese: “特尔苏丹难民营”
  • Chinese: “特爾蘇丹”
  • Danish: “Tel al-Sultan-lejren”
  • Dutch: “Tall as-Sultan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مخيم تل السلطان”
  • French: “camp de réfugiés de Tel al-Sultan”
  • French: “Camp de réfugiés de Tel al-Sultan”
  • French: “Tel al-Sultan”
  • Hebrew: “מחנה פליטים תל א-סולטאן”
  • Hebrew: “תל א-סולטאן”
  • Indonesian: “Tel al-Sultan”
  • Japanese: “テル・アッスルターン難民キャンプ”
  • Japanese: “テル・アル・スルタン難民キャンプ”
  • Japanese: “テル・アル＝スルタン難民キャンプ”
  • Korean: “탈 앗 술딴”
  • Kurdish: “Kampa Tel Essultan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tel al-Sultan”
  • Norwegian: “Tel al-Sultan”
  • Polish: “Muchajjam Tall as-Sultan”
  • Russian: “Тель-аль-Султан”
  • Slovenian: “begunsko taborišče Tel al-Sultan”
  • Slovenian: “taborišče Tel al-Sultan”
  • Spanish: “Campamento de Tel al-Sultán”
  • Urdu: “تل السلطان”
  • Uzbek: “Tel-al-Sultan”

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