Ḩawashān
Ḩawashān is a hill in Zarqa Governorate, Jordan and has an elevation of 767 metres. Ḩawashān is situated nearby to the locality Juraybah, as well as near Ḩayy al Amīrah Hayā.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hill with an elevation of 767 metres
- Description: hill in Jordan
- Also known as: “Haushān”, “Hawshan”, and “Ḩawshān”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zarqa and Al-Zarqa’a Refugee Camp.
Zarqa
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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.
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 east of Ḩawashān.
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. Marka camp is situated 8 km south of Ḩawashān.
Ḩawashān
- Category: landform
- Location: Zarqa Governorate, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Ḩawashān” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حوشان”
- Cebuano: “Ḩawashān”
- Dutch: “Ḩawashān”
- Swedish: “Ḩawashān”
Localities in the Area
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