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Pictured: Home to a million people

The Kutupalong refugee camp is over five square miles and is home to over one million Rohingya refugees - Azim khan Ronnie/ Caters News Agency
The Kutupalong refugee camp is over five square miles and is home to over one million Rohingya refugees - Azim khan Ronnie/ Caters News Agency

From afar it looks beautiful, up close the reality is anything but. For this incredible drone picture shows the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh.

The Kutupalong refugee camp is more than five square miles and is home to more than a million Rohingya refugees.

Situated in Ukhia, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, it is inhabited mostly by Rohingya refugees that fled from ethnic and religious persecution in neighboring Myanmar.

Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh - Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh
Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh - Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh

Photographer, Azim Khan Ronnie, 35, of Dhaka, Bangladesh, captured the image. He said: "Thousands of makeshift homes can be seen in these pictures. The array of red, green and white houses is home to those fleeing from terrifying violence in their home nation of Myanmar.

"It's an incredibly surreal thing to capture but I am truly glad I got to witness this."