Kalandia

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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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Cities	Abu Dis · al-Eizariya · ar-Ram

Municipalities	Hizma · Biddu · Bir Nabala · Kafr Aqab

Villages	Anata · Arab al Jahalin · Beit 'Anan · Beit Duqqu · Beit Hanina · Beit Iksa · Beit Sirik · Jab'a · al-Jib · Juderia · Mukhmas · Qalandiya · Qatanna · Rafat · as-Sawahra · ash-Sharqiyah · ash-Sheikh Sa'd · az-Za'ayyem

Refugee camps	Qalandiya · Shuafat

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Palestinian exodus · Palestinian refugees¹ · UNRWA

Gaza Strip 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)