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Rafah Refugee Camp

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 .
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  • Type: Suburb with 139,000 residents
  • Description: refugee camp in Rafah Governorate
  • Also known as: “Rafah Camp”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rafah and Rafah Border Crossing.

Ruins
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was a city in North Sinai and Egypt's eastern border with the , . It is the capital of center in , and is situated on the eastern Mediterranean coast of Egypt.

Border checkpoint
Photo: Gigi Ibrahim, Public domain.
The or Rafah Crossing Point is the sole crossing point between and 's and Gaza's sole border point with a country other than . is situated 3½ km south of Rafah Refugee Camp.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rafah and Canada Camp.

Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo.
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.

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
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 Rafah Camp. is situated 3 km north of Rafah Refugee Camp.

Rafah Refugee Camp

Latitude
31.28299° or 31° 16′ 59″ north
Longitude
34.25344° or 34° 15′ 12″ east
Population
139,000
Open location code
8G3P77M3+59
Open­Street­Map ID
node 505097503
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­refugee_site
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Wiki­data ID
Q2037471
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Rafah Refugee Camp” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مخيم رفح”
  • Catalan: “Camp de Rafah”
  • Chinese: “拉法難民營”
  • Dutch: “Rafah Camp”
  • Estonian: “Rafahi põgenikelaager”
  • Estonian: “Rafaḩi põgenikelaager”
  • French: “Camp de Rafah”
  • French: “Rafah camp”
  • French: “Rafah”
  • Hebrew: “מחנה הפליטים רפיח”
  • Hebrew: “מחנה רפיח”
  • Indonesian: “Kamp Rafah”
  • Japanese: “ラファフ・キャンプ”
  • Japanese: “ラファ難民キャンプ”
  • Korean: “라파흐 난민촌”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rafahleiren”
  • Norwegian: “Rafahleiren”
  • Persian: “اردوگاه رفح”
  • Polish: “Muchajjam Rafah”
  • Romanian: “Tabăra de refugiați Rafah”
  • Spanish: “Campamento de Rafah”
  • Ukrainian: “Рафах”
  • Uzbek: “Rafah lageri”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Rafah Refugee Camp”. Photo: DYKT Mohigan, CC BY 2.0.