Irbid Governorate
Irbid or Irbed is a governorate in Jordan, located north of Amman, the country's capital. The capital of the governorate is the city of Irbid. The governorate has the second largest population in Jordan after Amman Governorate, and the highest population density in the country.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Region with 942,000 residents
- Description: governorate of Jordan
- Also known as: “Governorate of Irbid”, “Irbed”, “Irbid”, “Liwa Irbid”, and “Liwā’ Irbid”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Irbid and Aydoun.
Irbid
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Irbid is a city in northern Jordan, some 88 km north of the capital Amman. Archaeological evidence reveals that Irbid has been settled since the Bronze Age.
Aydoun
Town
Aydoun is the name of a city in Irbid Governorate in Jordan. Some writers associate the town with the ancient city of Dium, one of the cities of the Decapolis, but this is disputed. It had a population of 63,244 as of 2018.
Al-Husn
Town
Photo: Issagm, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Al-Husn is a town in northern Jordan, located 65 km north of Amman, and about 7 km south of Irbid. It has a population of 35,085. The region has fertile soil which along with the moderate climate allows the growing of high quality crops.
Irbid Governorate
- Categories: governorate of Jordan and locality
- Location: Jordan, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.5° or 32° 30′ northLongitude
35.8341° or 35° 50′ 3″ eastPopulation
942,000Elevation
721 metres (2,365 feet)Open location code
8G4QFRXM+XJOpenStreetMap ID
node 802833433OpenStreetMap feature
place=regionGeoNames ID
248944Wikidata ID
Q721441
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Irbid Governorate” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Governorati i Irbidit”
- Arabic: “إربد”
- Arabic: “اربد”
- Arabic: “لواء إربد”
- Arabic: “محافظة إربد”
- Armenian: “Իրբիդի մարզ”
- Basque: “Irbid Gobernazioa”
- Basque: “Irbid”
- Belarusian: “Ірбід”
- Bengali: “ইরবিদ গভর্নোরেট”
- Catalan: “Governació d’Irbid”
- Cebuano: “Irbid”
- Chinese: “Irbid Séng”
- Chinese: “伊尔比德省”
- Chinese: “伊爾比德省”
- Danish: “Irbid Governorate”
- Dutch: “Irbid”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محافظه اربد”
- Esperanto: “Irbido”
- Finnish: “Irbid”
- French: “Gouvernorat d’Irbid”
- French: “Irbid”
- French: “Liwa Irbid”
- German: “Gouvernement Irbid”
- German: “Liwa Irbid”
- Greek: “Κυβερνείο Άρβηλας”
- Greek: “Κυβερνείο Ιρμπίντ”
- Gujarati: “ઇરબિડ ગવર્નોરેટ”
- Hebrew: “אירביד”
- Hebrew: “מחוז אירביד”
- Hindi: “आइरबिड गवर्नरेट”
- Hindi: “इरबिद प्रान्त”
- Hungarian: “Irbid kormányzóság”
- Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Irbid”
- Italian: “governatorato di Irbid”
- Italian: “Governatorato di Irbid”
- Japanese: “イルビド県”
- Kabardian: “Ирбид”
- Kannada: “ಇರ್ಬಿಡ್ ಗವರ್ನೇಟ್”
- Korean: “이르비드주”
- Latvian: “Irbidas muhāfaza”
- Lithuanian: “Irbido muchafaza”
- Lithuanian: “Irbido muhafaza”
- Malay: “Irbid Governorate”
- Malay: “Kegabenoran Irbid”
- Marathi: “इर्बिड गव्हर्नोरेट”
- Mazanderani: “اربد استان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Irbid Séng”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Irbid”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Irbid guvernement”
- Norwegian: “Irbid”
- Persian: “استان اربد”
- Polish: “Irbid”
- Portuguese: “Governorado de Irbid”
- Portuguese: “Irbid”
- Portuguese: “Província de Irbid”
- Romanian: “Guvernoratul Irbid”
- Russian: “Ирбид”
- Scots: “Irbid Govrenorate”
- Sinhala: “ඉර්බිඩ් පළාත”
- Spanish: “Gobernacion de Irbid”
- Spanish: “Gobernación de Irbid”
- Swedish: “Irbid”
- Tamil: “இர்பிட் கோவெர்னோராட்”
- Telugu: “ఇర్బిడ్ గవర్నరేట్”
- Thai: “เขตผู้ว่าราชการอิรบิด”
- Turkish: “Irbid Yönetimi”
- Turkish: “İrbid”
- Ukrainian: “Ірбід”
- Ukrainian: “Провінція Ірбід”
- Urdu: “محافظہ اربد”
- Uzbek: “Irbid gubernatorligi”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Irbid”
- Welsh: “Ardal Lywodraethol Irbid”
- Western Armenian: “Իրպիտի մարզ”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع ابرید”
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