King Hussein Air Base
King Hussein Air Base, also known as Mafraq Air Base and King Hussein Air College, is an air base 3 kilometres northeast of the city of Mafraq, in the Mafraq Governorate of Jordan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport in Jordan
- Also known as: “King Hussein”, “King Hussein Airport”, “OJMF”, and “OMF”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mafraq and Al Zaatari Refugee Camp.
Mafraq
Photo: Issagm, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mafraq is the capital city of Mafraq Governorate in Jordan, located 80 km to the north of the national capital, Amman. It is located at a crossroads, with a road north going to Syria and another road to the east going to Iraq.
Al Zaatari Refugee Camp
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Zaatari refugee camp is a refugee camp in Jordan, located 10 kilometres east of Mafraq, which has become a permanent settlement. It is the world's largest camp for Syrian refugees. Al Zaatari Refugee Camp is situated 9 km southeast of King Hussein Air Base.
King Hussein Air Base
- Categories: air base and transportation
- Location: Mafraq Governorate, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.35085° or 32° 21′ 3″ northLongitude
36.26207° or 36° 15′ 43″ eastElevation
682 metres (2,238 feet)IATA airport code
OMFICAO airport code
OJMFUnited Nations Location Code
JO OMFOpen location code
8G4R9726+8ROpenStreetMap ID
way 169515787OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodromeGeoNames ID
248251Wikidata ID
Q11824199
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“King Hussein Air Base” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قاعدة الملك الحسين الجوية”
- Arabic: “قاعدة الملك حسين الجوية”
- Cebuano: “King Hussein Air Base”
- German: “King Hussein Air Base”
- Hebrew: “בסיס חיל האוויר המלך חוסיין”
- Indonesian: “OJMF”
- Indonesian: “OMF”
- Japanese: “キング・フセイン空軍基地”
- Japanese: “フセイン1世空軍基地”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang King Hussein”
- Persian: “پایگاه هوایی ملک حسین”
- Polish: “Port lotniczy Al-Mafrak”
- Swedish: “King Hussein Air Base”
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