Wādī al Māḑūnah

Wādī al Māḑūnah is a wadi in , . Wādī al Māḑūnah is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near .

Places in the Area

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

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 north of Wādī al Māḑūnah.

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 6 km west of Wādī al Māḑūnah.

Photo: Yazan4HD, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 al Māḑūnah

Latitude
32.00536° or 32° 0′ 19″ north
Longitude
36.08646° or 36° 5′ 11″ east
Elevation
627 metres (2,057 feet)
Open location code
8G4R234P+4H
Geo­Names ID
248342
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In Other Languages

“Wādī al Māḑūnah” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “وادي الماضونة”

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