Khirbat ar Ruşayfah
Khirbat ar Ruşayfah is a locality in Zarqa Governorate, Jordan. Khirbat ar Ruşayfah is situated nearby to the neighborhood Marka camp, as well as near the locality Ghābat Sumū al Amīr al Ḩasan.Places of Interest
Highlights include King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Centre.
King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Centre
Military training area
The King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Center is an installation located in Amman, Jordan that specializes in counter-terrorism, special operations and irregular warfare tactics, techniques and procedures. King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Centre is situated 4 km northwest of Khirbat ar Ruşayfah.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Marka camp and Al-Zarqa’a Refugee Camp.
Marka camp
Neighborhood
The Marka refugee camp is one of six emergency camps erected in 1968 to shelter 15,000 Palestinian refugees fleeing the West Bank and the Gaza Strip due to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
Al-Zarqa’a Refugee Camp
Suburb
Zarqa Camp is one of the 10 officially recognized UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. It is located outside of Zarqa. 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. Al-Zarqa’a Refugee Camp is situated 8 km northeast of Khirbat ar Ruşayfah.
Zarqa
Photo: Yazan4HD, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Zarqa is the capital of Zarqa Governorate in Jordan. 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 Amman.
Khirbat ar Ruşayfah
- Type: Locality
- Also known as: “Khirbat ar Rusayfah” and “Khirbat er Ruseifa”
- Location: Zarqa Governorate, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.02176° or 32° 1′ 18″ northLongitude
36.01462° or 36° 0′ 53″ eastElevation
679 metres (2,228 feet)Open location code
8G4R22C7+PRGeoNames ID
248542
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