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Ethiopia and Pakistan bear the greatest economic strain of the world's biggest refugee-hosting countries, while Lebanon and Jordan host the most refugees relative to the size of their own populations, UNHCR said.

"New Zealand has said it will take 100 Syrian refugees from the major refugee-hosting countries in the region and that's on top of its normal quota," she said.

"There is a lot of media coverage highlighting the negative impact of the crisis on the refugee-hosting countries, but there are also many positive stories that never get reported," says David Verboom, Echo's regional head of office in Amman, Jordan.

Humanitarian organizations provide different services including education for refugees as a "surrogate for the state" in several immediate refugee-hosting countries like Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq during the Syrian refugee crisis.

Pakistan and Iran led the list of refugee-hosting countries, followed by the U.S., Syria, Germany, Jordan, and Tanzania.

It dropped from the list of the top 10 refugee-hosting countries in the world in 2012, and Turkey moved in to replace it.

There were several banners carrying the slogan: "Welcome to the world's largest refugee-hosting country".

"Turkey is the largest refugee-hosting country in the world," the Turkish foreign ministry has said.

Per capita, Nauru is now the third-highest refugee-hosting country in the world, because of Australia's forced transfer.

Last year saw Turkey overtake Pakistan to became the largest refugee-hosting country worldwide, with 1.59 million refugees, the overwhelming majority of them Syrian.

Ethiopia has overtaken Kenya to become Africa's largest refugee-hosting country after hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese arrived in the country this year.