Mahis
Mahis is a town in the Balqa Governorate northwest from the governorate's capital Salt, and 10 kilometers west of Amman. Its population was 17,754 in 2015.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Samer425, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 17,800 residents
- Description: human settlement in Jordan
- Also known as: “Mahas”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Al-Bassah and Wadi Al Seer.
Al-Bassah
Village
Al-Bassah is a town in the Amman Governorate in northern Jordan. The town is known for Roman-Byzantine architectural remains of a large cave church, and a second church built outside in front of the entrance. Al-Bassah is situated 6 km southeast of Mahis.
Wadi Al Seer
Suburb
Wadi Al-Seer or Wadi as-Seer is a valley west of Amman, which gave its name to one of the twenty-two districts of the Greater Amman Municipality in Jordan. Wadi Al Seer is situated 7 km southeast of Mahis.
Salt
Photo: Thilver, CC BY-SA 4.0.
As-Salt, also known as Salt, is an ancient trading city and administrative centre in west-central Jordan. It is on the old main highway leading from Amman to Jerusalem.
Mahis
- Categories: human settlement, village in Jordan, and locality
- Location: Balqa Governorate, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.98333° or 31° 59′ northLongitude
35.76667° or 35° 46′ eastPopulation
17,800Elevation
839 metres (2,753 feet)Open location code
8G3QXQM8+8MOpenStreetMap ID
node 802856701OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
248299Wikidata ID
Q2068805
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Urdu—“Mahis” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Mahis”
- Arabic: “Māḩiş”
- Arabic: “ماحص”
- Azerbaijani: “Maxis”
- Dutch: “Mahis”
- French: “Mahis”
- German: “Mahis”
- Hebrew: “מחיס”
- Irish: “Mahis”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mahis”
- Persian: “ماحص”
- Polish: “Mahis”
- Portuguese: “Mahis”
- Russian: “Махис”
- Silesian: “Mahis”
- Swedish: “Mahis”
- Ukrainian: “Махас”
- Ukrainian: “Махіс”
- Urdu: “ماحص”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mahis”. Photo: Samer425, Public domain.