Wādī al Ḩinw

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

Places in the Area

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

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 3½ km west of Wādī al Ḩinw.

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 northeast of Wādī al Ḩinw.

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 Ḩinw

Latitude
32.01328° or 32° 0′ 48″ north
Longitude
36.05399° or 36° 3′ 14″ east
Elevation
637 metres (2,090 feet)
Open location code
8G4R2373+8H
Geo­Names ID
249108
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In Other Languages

“Wādī al Ḩinw” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “وادي الحنو”

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