Satellite pictures provided by NASA and the United Nations satellite programme – UNOSAT – show the dramatic increase in Syrian refugees at the Zaatari camp in Jordan.
The images show how the camp, which was set up in 2012, has grown out of empty desert near Syria, into one of the world’s largest, home today to over 120,000 Syrians fleeing civil war.
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In a little over a year, satellite imagery shows that the camp is now a virtual city in itself – the fourth largest by population in Jordan.
It is now the world’s second largest refugee camp, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), after the Dadaab camp in Kenya, which houses 463,000 Somali refugees.
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