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Tel al-Sultan or Tall as-Sultan ( ar, معسكر تل السلطان) is one of eight
Palestinian refugee camps Camps are set up by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to accommodate Palestinian refugees registered with UNRWA, who fled or were expelled during the 1948 Palestinian ...
in the Gaza Strip. It is located in the
Rafah Governorate The Rafah Governorate ( ar, محافظة رفح ') is a Governorate of Palestine in the southernmost portion of the Gaza Strip. Its district capital or ''muhfaza'' is the city of Rafah located on the border with Egypt. According to the Palestini ...
just north of
Rafah Rafah ( ar, رفح, Rafaḥ) is a Palestinian city in the southern Gaza Strip. It is the district capital of the Rafah Governorate, located south of Gaza City. Rafah's population of 152,950 (2014) is overwhelmingly made up of former Palestinian ...
city and Rafah Camp.OCHA map
It was established mainly to absorb refugees repatriated from
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 (UNEF I), which formerly had a camp at the lo ...
. UNRWA does not make a distinction between Rafah Camp and Tall as-Sultan.UNRWA Rafah refugee camp profile
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Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS; ar, الجهاز المركزي للإحصاء الفلسطيني) is the official statistical institution of the State of Palestine. Its main task is to provide credible statistical figures a ...
2006 mid-year estimate for Tall as-Sultan is 24,418.


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Palestinian refugee camps in the Gaza Strip Rafah Governorate {{Palestine-geo-stub