Balukhali refugee camp is a

Rohingya The Rohingya people (; ; ) are a stateless Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who predominantly follow Islam from Rakhine State, Myanmar. Before the Rohingya genocide in 2017, when over 740,000 fled to Bangladesh, an estimated 1.4 million Ro ...

refugee camp A refugee camp is a temporary Human settlement, settlement built to receive refugees and people in refugee-like situations. Refugee camps usually accommodate displaced people who have fled their home country, but camps are also made for in ...

Cox's Bazar Cox's Bazar (; ; ) is a city, fishing port, tourism centre, and Cox's Bazar District, district headquarters in south-eastern Bangladesh. Cox's Bazar Beach, one of the most popular tourist attractions in Bangladesh, is the longest uninterrupte ...

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. The

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refers to the collective settlement of Balukhali and neighbouring

Kutupalong refugee camp Kutupalong refugee camp () is the world's largest refugee camp. It is located in Ukhia, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, and is inhabited mostly by Rohingya refugees who fled from ethnic and religious persecution in neighboring Myanmar. It is one of ...

as the Kutupalong–Balukhali expansion site. In March 2021, a massive fire destroyed much of the camp, killing over a dozen people and further displacing thousands.

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Populated places in Cox's Bazar District Refugee camps in Bangladesh Rohingya diaspora {{Chittagong-geo-stub