Marka camp
The Marka refugee camp is one of six emergency camps erected in 1968 to shelter 15,000 Palestinian refugees fleeing the West Bank and the Gaza Strip due to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan
- Also known as: “Hitteen camp”, “Hitten camp”, “Marka refugee camp”, and “Schneller camp”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Al-Zarqa’a Refugee Camp and Zarqa.
Al-Zarqa’a Refugee Camp
Suburb
Zarqa Camp is one of the 10 officially recognized UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. It is located outside of Zarqa. It was the first Palestine refugee camp to be established in Jordan, in 1949, and one of the four camps founded to accommodate the refugees of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight. Al-Zarqa’a Refugee Camp is situated 9 km northeast of Marka camp.
Zarqa
Photo: Yazan4HD, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Zarqa is the capital of Zarqa Governorate in Jordan. Its name means "the blue ". It had a population of 635,160 inhabitants in 2015, and is the second most populous city in Jordan after Amman.
Jabal el-Hussein camp
Neighborhood
Jabal el-Hussein camp is one of the 10 officially recognized UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. It is located outside of the Abdali area district of Amman. Jabal el-Hussein camp is situated 10 km southwest of Marka camp.
Marka camp
- Categories: refugee camp, Palestinian refugee camp, and locality
- Location: Zarqa Governorate, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.0074° or 32° 0′ 27″ northLongitude
36.02002° or 36° 1′ 12″ eastOpen location code
8G4R224C+X2OpenStreetMap ID
node 7542395887OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=refugee_siteOpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodWikidata ID
Q6770543
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Satellite Map
Discover Marka camp from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Marka camp” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مخيم الرصيفة”
- Arabic: “مخيم حطين”
- Arabic: “مخيم شنلر”
- Arabic: “مخيم ماركا”
- Bengali: “মার্কা শরণার্থী শিবির”
- Dutch: “Marka refugee camp”
- French: “camp de Marka”
- French: “Camp de Marka”
- French: “camp Hitteen”
- French: “camp Hitten”
- French: “camp Schneller”
- Hebrew: “מחנה חיטין”
- Persian: “اردوگاه پناهندگان مارکا”
- Persian: “اردوگاه مارکا”
- Polish: “Muchajjam Hittin”
- Spanish: “Campamento de Marka”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Khirbat al Rusayfah and Wadi al Henu.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include عدنان صلاحات and المؤسسة العسكرية - سوق الحزام.
Curious Neighborhoods to Discover
Uncover intriguing neighborhoods from every corner of the globe.
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 “Marka camp”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.