Irbid camp

Irbid Camp مخيم إربد
Refugee camp
32°33′N 35°51′E / 32.550°N 35.850°E / 32.550; 35.850
Country	Jordan
Governorate	Irbid Governorate
Area
• Total	0.24 km2 (0.09 sq mi)
Population  (2019)
• Total	29,000
Time zone	UTC+2 (Eastern European Standard Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (Arabia Standard Time)

Irbid Camp (Arabic: مخيم إربد) is one of the 10 officially recognized UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. It is located outside of Irbid.^[1]

It was one of the four camps founded in Jordan to accommodate the refugees of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight,^[1] the others being Jabal el-Hussein camp, Al-Wehdat refugee camp and Zarqa Camp.

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Palestine refugee camps locations and populations as of 2015^[1]

Gaza Strip 518,000 UNRWA refugees	West Bank 188,150 UNRWA refugees	Syria 319,958 UNRWA refugees	Lebanon 188,850 UNRWA refugees	Jordan 355,500 UNRWA refugees
Al-Shati (Beach camp) 87,000 Bureij 34,000 Deir al-Balah 21,000 Jabalia 110,000 Khan Yunis 72,000 Maghazi 24,000 Nuseirat 66,000 Rafah 104,000 Canada closed	Aqabat Jaber 6,400 Ein as-Sultan 1,900 Far'a 7,600 Fawwar 8,000 Jalazone 11,000 Qalandia 11,000 Am'ari 10,500 Deir 'Ammar 2,400 Dheisheh 13,000 Aida 4,700 Al-Arroub 10,400 Askar 15,900 Balata 23,600 'Azza (Beit Jibrin) 1,000 Ein Beit al-Ma' (Camp No. 1) 6,750 Tulkarm 18,000 Nur Shams 9,000 Jenin 16,000 Shu'fat 11,000 Silwad Birzeit	Sabinah 22,600 Khan al-Shih 20,000 Nayrab 20,500 Homs 22,000 Jaramana 18,658 Daraa 10,000 Hama 8,000 Khan Danoun 10,000 Qabr Essit 23,700 Unofficial camps Ein Al-Tal 6,000 Latakia 10,000 Yarmouk 148,500	Bourj el-Barajneh 17,945 Ain al-Hilweh 54,116 El Buss 11,254 Nahr al-Bared 5,857 Shatila 9,842 Wavel 8,806 Mar Elias 662 Mieh Mieh 5,250 Beddawi 16,500 Burj el-Shemali 22,789 Dbayeh 4,351 Rashidieh 31,478 Former camps Tel al-Zaatar  ? Nabatieh  ?	Zarqa 20,000 Jabal el-Hussein 29,000 Amman New (Wihdat) 51,500 Souf 20,000 Baqa'a 104,000 Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti camp) 22,000 Irbid 25,000 Jerash 24,000 Marka 53,000 Talbieh 8,000 Al-Hassan  ? Madaba  ? Sokhna  ?

References

1. ^ "Camp Profiles". unrwa.org. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. Retrieved 2 July 2015.