Sweimeh
Sweimeh is a village located in the southern Jordan Valley, in the Balqa Governorate of Jordan. Its population is around 5000, within 726 households. Sweimeh's economy is based on agriculture, alongside small projects of trading and tourism.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Balqa Governorate, Jordan
- Also known as: “Suwaymah”, “Sūwaymah”, “Suweima”, and “Sweime”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Al Maghtas.
Al Maghtas
Locality
Photo: Codas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Al-Maghtas, officially known as Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan", is an archaeological World Heritage Site in Jordan, on the east bank of the Jordan River, reputed to be the location of the Baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist and venerated as such since at least the Byzantine period. Al Maghtas is situated 10 km northwest of Sweimeh.
Sweimeh
- Categories: human settlement, village in Jordan, and locality
- Location: Balqa Governorate, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.761° or 31° 45′ 40″ northLongitude
35.59653° or 35° 35′ 48″ eastElevation
-342 metres (-1,122 feet)Open location code
8G3QQH6W+9JOpenStreetMap ID
node 7549550893OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
246642Wikidata ID
Q110921589
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Russian—“Sweimeh” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “السويمة”
- Arabic: “سويمة”
- Arabic: “قرية سويمة”
- French: “Swemeh”
- Persian: “السویمه”
- Russian: “Сувайма”
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