Kutupalong Refugee Camp

Kutupalong Refugee Camp
কুতুপালং শরনার্থী শিবির

Kutapalong Refugee Camp in Bangladesh (Photo taken by John Owens/VOA)
Coordinates: 21°12′45″N 92°09′48″E / 21.2126°N 92.1634°E / 21.2126; 92.1634
Country  Bangladesh
Division Chittagong Division
District Cox's Bazar District
Upazila Ukhia Upazila

The Kutupalong Refugee Camp (Bengali: কুতুপালং শরনার্থী শিবির) is a refugee camp in Ukhia, Bangladesh, inhabited mostly by Rohingya Muslims that have fled from religious persecution in neighboring Myanmar.[1][2] It is one of two government-run refugee camps in the Cox's Bazar, the other being the Nayapara Refugee Camp.[3] The two refugee camps have a combined population of around 30,000 refugees.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "The young and the hopeless in Bangladesh's camps". UNHCR. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  2. ↑ "Rohingya huddled in Bangladesh camps fear plan to move them on". Reuters. 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  3. ↑ "Stories from the Rohingya Camps in Bangladesh". 5 September 2016. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  4. ↑ "Two camps of thought on helping Rohingya in Bangladesh". UNHCR. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
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