Kalandia

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Children queuing at Kalandia Checkpoint.
Children queuing at Kalandia Checkpoint.

Kalandia (31°51′N, 35°12′E; Arabic: قلنديا‎) also Qalandiya, is a Palestinian village and adjacent refugee camp located about halfway along the road from Jerusalem to Ramallah on the West Bank. The refugee camp was established in 1949 and is home to 10,024 refugees,[1] and the village had a population of 1,154 inhabitants in 2006.

There is also a major Israeli checkpoint for Palestinians crossing into Jerusalem nearby.

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986,034 refugees		 Jordan
1,827,877 refugees		 Lebanon
404,170 refugees		 Syria
432,048 refugees		 West Bank
699,817 refugees

Beach camp, 76,109
Bureij, 30,059
Deir al-Balah camp, 20,188
Jabalia, 103,646
Khan Yunis, 60,662
Maghazi, 22,536
Nuseirat, 64,233
Rafah camp, 90,638

Amman New Camp, 29,805
Baqa'a, 80,100
Husn, 19,573
Irbid, 23,512
Jabal el-Hussein , 27,674
Jerash, 15,696
Marka, 41,237
Souf, 14,911
Talbieh, 4,041
Zarqa, 17,344

Beddawi, 15,695
Burj el-Barajneh, 19,526
Burj el-Shemali, 18,134
Dbayeh, 4,223
Dikwaneh, destroyed
Ein el-Hilweh, 44,133
El-Buss, 9,840
Jisr el-Basha, destroyed
Mar Elias, 1,406
Mieh Mieh, 5,078
Nabatieh camp, destroyed in 1973
Nahr el-Bared, 28,358
Rashidieh, 24,679
Sabra
Shatila, 11,998
Tel al-Zaatar, destroyed in 1976
Wavel, 7,357

Dera'a, 5,916
Dera'a (Emergency), 5,536
Hama, 7,597
Homs, 13,825
Jaramana, 5,007
Khan Dunoun, 8,603
Khan Eshieh, 15,731
Neirab, 17,994
Qabr Essit, 16,016
Sbeineh, 19,624
Latakia, 6,534
Yarmouk, 112,550
Ein Al-Tal, 4,329

Abu Dis
Aida, 3,260
Am'ari, 8,083
Aqabat Jabr, 5,197
Arroub, 9,180
Askar, 13,894
Azaa, 1,828
Balata, 20,681
Deir Ammar, 2,189
Dheisheh, 10,923
Ein Beit al-Ma', 6,221
Ein el-Sultan, 1,888
Far'a, 6,836
Fawwar, 7,072
Jalazone, 9,284
Jenin, 14,050
Kalandia, 9,188
Nur Shams, 8,179
Shu'fat camp, 9,567
Tulkarm, 16,259
1The UNRWA definition of a "Palestinian refugee" is a person "whose normal place of residence was Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948, who lost both their homes and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict." "UNRWA's definition of a refugee also covers the descendants of persons who became refugees in 1948." (UNRWA)