Tulkarm Refugee Camp
Tulkarm Camp is a Palestinian refugee camp north of the West Bank in the city of Tulkarm, established in 1950 on 0.18 km2 by the UNRWA. It is the second largest refugee camp in the West Bank, as well as one of the most densely populated.Photo: WalidHsein, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Suburb with 9,930 residents
- Description: refugee camp in Tulkarm, Palestine
- Also known as: “Tulkarm Camp”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Martyr Dr. Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital and Alfadliyah secondary boys school.
Martyr Dr. Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Mohammad Hijjawi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Martyr Dr. Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital or Tulkarm Governmental Hospital is a government hospital in Tulkarm, West Bank, Palestine. It is under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tulkarm and Iktaba.
Tulkarm
Photo: Mohammad Hijjawi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tulkarm is a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank, on the border between Israel and the West Bank. Its population was about 82,000 in 2017.
Iktaba
Village
Iktaba is a Palestinian town located four kilometers Northeast of the city of Tulkarm in the Tulkarm Governorate in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 2,665 inhabitants in 2007 and 2,997 by 2017.
Nur Shams
Village
Photo: أمين, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nur Shams is a Palestinian refugee camp in the Tulkarm Governorate in the northwestern West Bank, located three kilometres east of Tulkarm. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Nur Shams had a population of 6,479 inhabitants in 2007 and 6,423 by 2017.
Tulkarm Refugee Camp
- Categories: refugee camp, Palestinian refugee camp, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Tulkarm Governorate, West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.31378° or 32° 18′ 50″ northLongitude
35.03532° or 35° 2′ 7″ eastPopulation
9,930Open location code
8G4Q827P+G4OpenStreetMap ID
node 920077429OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbWikidata ID
Q12241562
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Tulkarm Refugee Camp” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مخيم طولكرم”
- Central Kurdish: “کەمپی توولکەرم”
- Chinese: “图勒凯尔姆难民营”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مخيم طولكرم”
- French: “Camp de Tulkarem”
- Hebrew: “מ.פ. טולכרם”
- Hebrew: “מחנה הפליטים טולכרם”
- Persian: “اردوگاه پناهندگان طولکرم”
- Persian: “اردوگاه طولکرم”
- Polish: “Muchajjam Tulkarm”
- Polish: “Obóz Tulkarm”
- Spanish: “Campamento de Tulkarem”
- Uzbek: “Tulkarm lageri”
- “Tulkarm Camp”
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