Petra
Wadi Musa is a town located in the Ma'an Governorate in southern Jordan. It is the administrative center of the Petra Department and the nearest town to the archaeological site of Petra, being only 3.5 km away.
- Type: Town with 14,000 residents
- Description: human settlement in Jordan
- Also known as: “Aljī”, “El-Gi”, “Elchi”, “Elji”, “Mojžíšovo údolí”, “Val-Moyse”, and “Wadi Musa”
Places of Interest
Highlights: The Treasury (Al-Khazneh) and Vaux Moise.
The Treasury (Al-Khazneh)
Jebel al-Madhbah
Peak
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Petra.
Petra
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Ma’an Governorate, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
30.32166° or 30° 19′ 18″ north
Longitude
35.48009° or 35° 28′ 48″ east
Population
14,000
Elevation
1,127 metres (3,698 feet)
Open location code
8G2Q8FCJ+M2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Petra” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Wadi Musa”
- Arabic: “Wādī Mūsá”
- Arabic: “بترا”
- Arabic: “وادي موسى”
- Armenian: “Վադի Մուսա”
- Basque: “Wadi Musa”
- Bengali: “ওয়াদি মুসা”
- Cebuano: “Petra”
- Cebuano: “Wādī Mūsá”
- Central Kurdish: “دۆڵی مووسا”
- Chinese: “摩西谷”
- Chinese: “瓦迪穆萨”
- Czech: “Vádí Musa”
- Danish: “Wadi Musa”
- Dutch: “Wadi Musa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “وادى موسى”
- Finnish: “Wadi Musa”
- French: “Wadi Moussa”
- French: “Wadi Musa”
- German: “Wadi Musa”
- Greek: “Γουάντι Μούσα”
- Gujarati: “વાડી મુસા”
- Hebrew: “ואדי מוסא”
- Hindi: “वाडी मूसा”
- Hindi: “वादी मूसा”
- Hungarian: “Vádi Músza”
- Indonesian: “Wadi Musa”
- Italian: “Petra”
- Italian: “Wadi Musa”
- Japanese: “ワディ・ムサ”
- Kannada: “ವಾಡಿ ಮುಸ”
- Korean: “와디 무사”
- Latvian: “Vadimusa”
- Lithuanian: “Vadi Musa”
- Malay: “Wadi Musa”
- Malayalam: “വാദി മൂസ”
- Marathi: “वाडी मूसा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wadi Musa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wadi Musa”
- Persian: “وادی موسی”
- Polish: “Wadi Musa”
- Portuguese: “Wadi Musa”
- Romanian: “Wadi Musa”
- Russian: “Вади-Муса”
- Russian: “Петра”
- Scots: “Wadi Musa”
- Sinhala: “වැඩි මුසා”
- Slovenian: “Wadi Musa”
- Spanish: “Wadi Musa”
- Swedish: “Wadi Musa”
- Tamil: “வாடி மூஸா”
- Telugu: “వాడి ముసా”
- Thai: “วาดิ มูซา”
- Turkish: “Aynimusa”
- Ukrainian: “Ваді-Муса”
- Urdu: “وادی موسی”
- Vietnamese: “Wadi Musa”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Al-Madras and Khirbat Muallaq.
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