Jalazone

Jalazone Camp
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicمخيّم الجلزون
 • Latinal-Jalazun Camp (official)
al-Jalazoun Camp (unofficial)
View of Jalazone Camp from road coming from Jifna in 2009, Khaldun Bshara
View of Jalazone Camp from road coming from Jifna in 2009, Khaldun Bshara
Jalazone Camp is located in State of Palestine
Jalazone Camp
Jalazone Camp
Location of Jalazone Camp within Palestine
Coordinates: 31°57′07.15″N 35°12′41.58″E / 31.9519861°N 35.2115500°E / 31.9519861; 35.2115500
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateRamallah and al-Bireh
Government
 • TypeRefugee Camp (from 1949)
Area
 • Total253 dunams (0.25 km2 or 0.10 sq mi)
Population
 (2017)[1]
 • Total8,201
 • Density33,000/km2 (85,000/sq mi)

Jalazone (Arabic: مخيّم الجلزون) is a Palestinian refugee camp in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located 7 kilometers (4.3 mi) north of Ramallah and adjacent to the village of Jifna to the north, Deir Dibwan to the east, Bir Zeit to the west and the Beit El Israeli settlement to the southeast.

  1. ^ Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 (PDF). Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) (Report). State of Palestine. February 2018. pp. 64–82. Retrieved 2023-10-24.