Middle East
Jordan
Zarqa Governorate

Wādī Rawḑ Shakārah

Wādī Rawḑ Shakārah is a wadi in , . Wādī Rawḑ Shakārah is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near the city .
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Places in the Area

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

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 3 km south of Wādī Rawḑ Shakārah.

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 6 km northeast of Wādī Rawḑ Shakārah.

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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 .

Wādī Rawḑ Shakārah

Latitude
32.03279° or 32° 1′ 58″ north
Longitude
36.03135° or 36° 1′ 53″ east
Elevation
687 metres (2,254 feet)
Open location code
8G4R22MJ+4G
Geo­Names ID
247341
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