Canada Camp
Canada Camp was a Palestinian refugee camp in the northern Sinai near Rafah, 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.Places of Interest
Highlights include Rafah and Bnei Atzmon.
Rafah
Ruins
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Rafah is a city in North Sinai and Egypt's eastern border with the Gaza Strip, Palestine. It is the capital of Rafah center in North Sinai Governorate, and is situated on the eastern Mediterranean coast of Egypt.
Bnei Atzmon
Ruins
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Bnei Atzmon was an Israeli settlement previously in the Sinai Peninsula, later moved to the Gaza Strip before being destroyed in 2005. Bnei Atzmon is situated 3½ km north of Canada Camp.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yamit and Al-Mawasi.
Yamit
Locality
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Yamit was an Israeli settlement in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula with a population of about 2,500 people. Yamit was established during Israel's occupation of the peninsula from the end of the 1967 Six-Day War until that part of the Sinai was handed over to Egypt in April 1982, as part of the terms of the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty. Yamit is situated 7 km west of Canada Camp.
Al-Mawasi
Village
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Al-Mawasi is a fertile area for agriculture in the Gaza Strip. It is along the coast and has many sand dunes. Al-Mawasi is fourteen kilometers long and one kilometer wide, making up about 3% of the Gaza Strip. Al-Mawasi is situated 7 km north of Canada Camp.
Khan Yunis Camp
Suburb
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The Khan Yunis refugee camp, also called Khan Yunis Camp, is a Palestinian refugee camp in the Khan Yunis Governorate just west of the city of Khan Yunis and two kilometers east of the Mediterranean coast in the southern Gaza Strip. Khan Yunis Camp is situated 8 km northeast of Canada Camp.
Canada Camp
- Type: Locality
- Description: Palestinian refugee camp
- Category: refugee camp
- Location: North Sinai Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
31.29166° or 31° 17′ 30″ northLongitude
34.23918° or 34° 14′ 21″ eastOpen location code
8G3P76RQ+MMOpenStreetMap ID
node 330149744OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q2268577
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Persian—“Canada Camp” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مخيم كندا”
- Catalan: “Camp Canadà”
- Dutch: “Canada Camp”
- French: “Camp Canada”
- French: “Canada Camp”
- Hebrew: “מחנה הפליטים קנדה”
- Persian: “اردوگاه کانادا”
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