Dhiban
Dhiban is a Jordanian town located in Madaba Governorate approximately 70 kilometres south of Amman and east of the Dead Sea. It was the site of an ancient Moabite town Previously nomadic, the current community settled the town in the 1950s.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town
- Description: town in Jordan
- Also known as: “Dhībān”, “Dhiban, Jordan”, and “Diboun”
Dhiban
- Categories: human settlement, biblical city, and locality
- Location: Madaba Governorate, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.49851° or 31° 29′ 55″ northLongitude
35.78009° or 35° 46′ 48″ eastElevation
720 metres (2,362 feet)Open location code
8G3QFQXJ+C2OpenStreetMap ID
node 5434897939OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Dhiban” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Dhiban”
- Arabic: “ג’הפי”
- Arabic: “ذيبان”
- Chinese: “濟班 (約旦)”
- Dutch: “Dhiban”
- Dutch: “Dibon-Gad”
- Dutch: “Dibon”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ذيبان”
- Finnish: “Dhiban”
- French: “Dhiban”
- French: “Diban”
- French: “Dibôn”
- French: “Dibongad”
- French: “Divôn”
- German: “Dhiban”
- German: “Diban”
- Hebrew: “דיבאן”
- Hebrew: “דיבון”
- Hungarian: “Dhiban”
- Hungarian: “Dibán”
- Hungarian: “Dibon”
- Indonesian: “Dhiban, Yordania”
- Irish: “Dhiban”
- Italian: “Dhiban”
- Italian: “Dibon”
- Italian: “Dimon”
- Japanese: “ディバン”
- Japanese: “ディボン”
- Macedonian: “Дивон”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dhiban i Jordan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dhiban”
- Persian: “ذیبان”
- Polish: “Dibon”
- Polish: “Ziban”
- Romanian: “Dhiban”
- Russian: “Дивон”
- Swedish: “Dhiban”
- Ukrainian: “Дібан”
- Ukrainian: “Дівон Ґад”
- Ukrainian: “Дівон”
- Urdu: “ذیبان”
- Western Panjabi: “ذیبان”
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