Jibāl ash Shitnah

Jibāl ash Shitnah is a hill in , and has an elevation of 811 metres. Jibāl ash Shitnah is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Al-Zarqa’a Refugee Camp and Marka camp.

Suburb
Zarqa Camp is one of the 10 officially recognized UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in . It is located outside of . It was the first Palestine refugee camp to be established in Jordan, in 1949, and one of the four camps founded to accommodate the refugees of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight. is situated 8 km north of Jibāl ash Shitnah.

Neighborhood
The Marka refugee camp is one of six emergency camps erected in 1968 to shelter 15,000 Palestinian refugees fleeing the and the due to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. is situated 8 km west of Jibāl ash Shitnah.

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is the capital of in . Its name means "the blue ". It had a population of 635,160 inhabitants in 2015, and is the second most populous city in Jordan after .

Jibāl ash Shitnah

Latitude
31.98988° or 31° 59′ 24″ north
Longitude
36.10489° or 36° 6′ 18″ east
Elevation
811 metres (2,661 feet)
Open location code
8G3RX4Q3+XX
Geo­Names ID
246838
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