Torbat-e Jam (refugee camp)

The Torbat-e Jam camp, also called Mehmanshahr,[1] is an Afghan refugee camp (officially termed guest city) in eastern Iran, Torbat-e Jam established around 1998, with a capacity of 10,000 people. The camp, as of 2016, housed 4,000 Afghan refugees on a 100-hectare compound of permanent brick housing, schools and clinics, and a mosque.[2][3][4]

Historical population
YearPop.±%
20017,000[5]—    
20085,000[3]−28.6%
20164,000[2]−20.0%

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres visited the camp in late 2008 and described it as " probably the best refugee settlement in Iran, if not the world."[3]

  1. ^ "Mother country is best place of world". Iranian Students' News Agency. 3 December 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Iran, Afghan children's Peace and Friendship Painting Exhibition in Torbat-e Jam". Islamic Republic News Agency. 17 March 2016.
  3. ^ a b c UNHCR chief visits, praises refugee camp in eastern Iran. UNHCR News Stories, 21 November 2008
  4. ^ "Special on Afghan refugees". The New Humanitarian. 29 June 2004.
  5. ^ "The forgotten people count their luck". The Telegraph. 8 October 2001.