Shaumari Wildlife Reserve
The Shaumari Wildlife Reserve is a Jordanian nature reserve near the town of Azraq, approximately 100 km east of Amman. It is a regionally important reserve created in 1975 by the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature as a breeding center for endangered or locally extinct wildlife.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nickfraser, GFDL.
- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: wildlife reserve in Jordan
- Also known as: “Shaumari Reserve” and “Shawmari Wildlife Reserve”
Shaumari Wildlife Reserve
- Categories: wildlife reserve and recreation area
- Location: Amman Governorate, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.74272° or 31° 44′ 34″ northLongitude
36.78037° or 36° 46′ 49″ eastElevation
520 metres (1,706 feet)Open location code
8G3RPQVJ+34OpenStreetMap ID
way 981642439OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserveGeoNames ID
246867Wikidata ID
Q4165387
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Shaumari Wildlife Reserve” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محمية الشومري للأحياء البرية”
- Arabic: “محمية شومري”
- Arabic: “محميه الشومري”
- Cebuano: “Shawmarī Wildlife Reserve”
- Finnish: “Shawmari”
- French: “réserve faunique de Shaumari”
- French: “Réserve faunique de Shaumari”
- German: “Naturschutzgebiet Shaumari”
- German: “Shaumari Wildlife Reserve”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shaumari dyrereservat”
- Polish: “Rezerwat przyrody Asz-Szaumari”
- Polish: “Rezerwat przyrody Shaumari”
- Romanian: “Rezervaţia faunei sălbatice Shaumari”
- Romanian: “Rezervația faunei sălbatice Shaumari”
- Swedish: “Shawmarī Wildlife Reserve”
- Ukrainian: “Заповідник Шаумарі”
- Urdu: “شومری جنگلی حیات کا محفوظ علاقہ”
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