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Kutupalong refugee camp

Kutupalong refugee camp
কুতুপালং শরণার্থী শিবির
Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh (Photo taken by Maaz Hussain/VOA)
Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh
(Photo taken by Maaz Hussain/VOA)
Kutupalong refugee camp is located in Bangladesh
Kutupalong refugee camp
Kutupalong refugee camp
Location in Bangladesh
Coordinates: 21°12′45″N 92°09′48″E / 21.2126°N 92.1634°E / 21.2126; 92.1634
Country Bangladesh
DivisionChittagong Division
DistrictCox's Bazar District
UpazilaUkhia Upazila
Area
 • Total
13 km2 (5 sq mi)
Population
 (30 June 2020)[1]
 • Total
598,545
 • Density46,000/km2 (120,000/sq mi)
 • Camp
16,714 (Kutupalong RC); 581,831 (expansion site)

Kutupalong refugee camp (Bengali: কুতুপালং শরণার্থী শিবির) is the world's largest refugee camp.[2][3][4] It is located in Ukhia, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, and is inhabited mostly by Rohingya refugees who fled from ethnic and religious persecution in neighboring Myanmar.[5][6] It is one of two government-run refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, the other being the Nayapara refugee camp.[7]

The UNHCR Camp office at Kutupalong is supported by seven international entities: the governments of the European Union, the United States, Canada, Japan, Finland, Sweden and the Stichting INGKA Foundation.[8][9]

  1. ^ "Rohingya Refugee Response Bangladesh: Refugee Population by Location". UNHCR. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  2. ^ Sengupta, Somini; Fountain, Henry (14 March 2018). "The Biggest Refugee Camp Braces for Rain: 'This Is Going to Be a Catastrophe'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  3. ^ "Cyclone Fani hits India, UN moves to protect vulnerable refugees in Bangladesh". UN News. 3 May 2019. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  4. ^ "Coronavirus: Two Rohingya test positive in refugee camp". BBC News. 14 May 2020. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  5. ^ "The young and the hopeless in Bangladesh's camps". UNHCR. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  6. ^ "Rohingya huddled in Bangladesh camps fear plan to move them on". Reuters. 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  7. ^ "Stories from the Rohingya Camps in Bangladesh". 5 September 2016. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  8. ^ Marra, Tatiana. "Diary book - 12 May 2014 - Our work at the Refugee camps near Coxs bazaar". Ikea foundation blog. Ikea foundation. Archived from the original on 8 October 2018. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  9. ^ "Vital UNHCR aid arrives in Cox's Bazar, additional emergency staff deployed". UNHCR USA website. UNHCR. Retrieved 8 October 2018.

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