Wādī ash Shawmar

Wādī ash Shawmar is a wadi in , . Wādī ash Shawmar is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near .

Places in the Area

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

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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 .

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 4½ km southeast of Wādī ash Shawmar.

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 9 km south of Wādī ash Shawmar.

Wādī ash Shawmar

Latitude
32.08112° or 32° 4′ 52″ north
Longitude
36.05443° or 36° 3′ 16″ east
Elevation
565 metres (1,854 feet)
Open location code
8G4R33J3+CQ
Geo­Names ID
246873
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In Other Languages

“Wādī ash Shawmar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “وادي الشومر”

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