More than 274,000 Syrian refugees are now living in three neighboring nations, the UNHCR, the United Nations relief agency, said Tuesday.

Nearly 102,000 of them are in Turkey, another 71,592 are in Lebanon and 58,622 more are in Jordan.

Earlier, the United Nations reported some 150,000 refugees from Syria's civil war had settled in Lebanon and an additional 6,815 in North Africa.