Jordan is hosting more than 600,000 of the 4.6million Syrians who have registered with the UN as refugees

 

Jordan is hosting more than 600,000 of the 4.6million Syrians who have registered with the UN as refugees since the civil war broke out in the country five years ago

 

 

WHERE ARE THE 4.6M REFUGEES WHO HAVE FLED SYRIA?

• Turkey: 2.5million
• Lebanon: 1.01million
• Jordan: 635,000
• Iraq: 244 642
• Serbia: 276,000
• Germany: 184,053
• Egypt and north Africa: 150,000
• Sweden: 102,870
• Hungary: 72,000
• Austria: 31,000
• Bulgaria: 17,000
• Switzerland: 11,000
• Norway: 11,000
• France: 9,000
• United Kingdom: 8,000
• Spain: 7,000 

But the Jordanian government says there are another one million unregistered Syrians living in the country, which has a population of 9.5million, and fear more will arrive due to the estimated 13.5million vulnerable and displaced people who remain in Syria. 

 

Pictures taken from a helicopter flying over the Al Zaatari camp have emerged showing tents and other temporary homes stretching over miles of the Jordanian desert