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.
Photo: Samer425, Public domain.- Type: Village with 17,800 residents
- Description: human settlement in Jordan
- Also known as: “Mahas” and “Махас”
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. Al-Bassah is situated 6 km southeast of Mahis.
Wadi Al Seer
Suburb
Wadi Al-Seer or Wadi as-Seer is a valley west… Wadi Al Seer is situated 7 km southeast of Mahis.
Mahis
- Categories: human settlement, village in Jordan, and locality
- Location: Balqa Governorate, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.98333° or 31° 59′ north
Longitude
35.76667° or 35° 46′ east
Population
17,800
Elevation
839 metres (2,753 feet)
Open location code
8G3QXQM8+8M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Urdu—“Mahis” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Mahis”
- Arabic: “Māḩiş”
- Arabic: “ماحص”
- Armenian: “Մահիս”
- 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: “Махіс”
- Urdu: “ماحص”
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Localities in the Area
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