Middle East
Jordan
Zarqa Governorate

Al-Zarqa’a Refugee Camp

Zarqa Camp is one of the 10 officially recognized UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in . It is located outside of . 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.
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  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: Palestinian refugee camp in Zarqa Governorate, Jordan
  • Also known as: “Zarqa camp” and “Zarqa Camp”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zarqa and Marka camp.

Photo: Yazan4HD, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the capital of in . 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 .

Neighborhood
The Marka refugee camp is one of six emergency camps erected in 1968 to shelter 15,000 Palestinian refugees fleeing the and the due to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. is situated 9 km southwest of Al-Zarqa’a Refugee Camp.

Al-Zarqa’a Refugee Camp

Latitude
32.0581° or 32° 3′ 29″ north
Longitude
36.09192° or 36° 5′ 31″ east
Open location code
8G4R335R+6Q
Open­Street­Map ID
way 431486611
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­refugee_site
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Wiki­data ID
Q47069718
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Polish—“Al-Zarqa’a Refugee Camp” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الزرقاء مخيم”
  • Arabic: “مخيم الزرقاء”
  • French: “camp de Zarqa”
  • French: “Camp de Zarqa”
  • Persian: “اردوگاه زرقا”
  • Polish: “Muchajjam az-Zarka”

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