The Torbat-e Jam camp, also called Mehmanshahr, 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. UNHCR chief visits, praises refugee camp in eastern Iran. UNHCR News Stories, 21 November 2008United 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."
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Food Security and Livelihoods Vulnerability Analysis of Afghan and Iraqi Kurd Refugee Households Encamped in Iran Rebuilding hygiene and sanitation facilities for newly arrived refugees WFP, UNCHR & BAFIA Joint Assessment Mission: Camp-based Refugees in Iran 26 April to 8 May 2006