Dhiban
Dhiban is a Jordanian town located in Madaba Governorate approximately 70 kilometres south of Amman and east of the Dead Sea. Previously nomadic, the current community settled the town in the 1950s.
Photo: Bporter615, Public domain.- Type: Town
- Description: town in Jordan
- Also known as: “Dhībān”, “Dhiban, Jordan”, “Diban”, “Dibán”, “Dibon”, “Dibôn”, “Dibon-Gad”, “Dibongad”, “Diboun”, “Dimon”, “Divôn”, “Tí-pún”, “Tí-pún-kâ-tet”, “Дівон”, “Дівон Ґад”, “ג’הפי”, “ディボン”, “底們”, “底本”, “底本．迦得”, and “底班”
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″ north
Longitude
35.78009° or 35° 46′ 48″ east
Elevation
720 metres (2,362 feet)
Open location code
8G3QFQXJ+C2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Dhiban” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Dhiban”
- Arabic: “ذيبان”
- Chinese: “濟班 (約旦)”
- Dutch: “Dhiban”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ذيبان”
- Finnish: “Dhiban”
- French: “Dhiban”
- German: “Dhiban”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tí-mùn”
- Hebrew: “דיבאן”
- Hebrew: “דיבון”
- Hungarian: “Dhiban”
- Indonesian: “Dhiban, Yordania”
- Irish: “Dhiban”
- Italian: “Dhiban”
- Japanese: “ディバン”
- Macedonian: “Дивон”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dhiban i Jordan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dhiban”
- Persian: “ذیبان”
- Polish: “Ziban”
- Romanian: “Dhiban”
- Russian: “Дивон”
- Swedish: “Dhiban”
- Ukrainian: “Дібан”
- Urdu: “ذیبان”
- Western Panjabi: “ذیبان”
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