Kosovo-- Refugees

By the Associated Press

Numbers and whereabouts of refugees:

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that more than 850,000 people, the vast majority of them ethnic Albanians, have left Kosovo since NATO began its air assault March 24.

Many of Kosovo's 1.8 million ethnic Albanians were already displaced before the current exodus. This includes 100,000 Kosovars who sought asylum in European countries before the airstrikes on Yugoslavia.

_ The whereabouts and numbers of the refugees, according to UNHCR:

Albania _ 442,100

Macedonia _ 250,100

Montenegro _ 66,300

Bosnia Herzegovina _ 21,700

_ Refugees who have been evacuated from Macedonia, according to UNHCR:

Germany _ 13,122

Turkey _ 7,475

Italy_ 5,829

Norway _ 5,810

France _ 4,338

Canada _ 5,154

Austria _ 4,215

Netherlands _ 3,428

United States _ 4,984

Sweden _ 2,456

Belgium _ 1,223

Finland _ 958

Poland _ 1,049

Australia _ 2,051

Britain _ 2,094

Spain _ 1,124

Denmark _ 1,997

Czech Republic _ 824

Portugal _ 952

Switzerland _ 1,014

Slovenia _ 483

Croatia _ 188

Ireland _ 603

Israel _ 206

Slovakia _ 90

Malta_ 105

Iceland _ 70

Romania _ 41

_ Countries that have offered to take in refugees on a temporary basis, according to governments:

Turkey _ 20,000

United States _ 20,000

Germany _ 15,000

Finland _ 10,000

Italy _ 10,000

Norway _ 6,000

Sweden _ 5,000

Austria _ 5,000

Canada _ 5,000

Australia _ 4,000

Britain _ up to 1,000 per week

Switzerland _ 2,500

Netherlands _ 2,000

Denmark _ 1,500

Romania _ 1,500

Poland _ 1,000

Portugal _ 500

Israel _ additional 100

Iceland _ 100

Malta _ 100

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