Zarqa Governorate
Zarqa Governorate is the third largest governorate in Jordan by population. The capital of Zarqa governorate is Zarqa City, which is the largest city in the governorate.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: State with 911,000 residents
- Description: governorate in Jordan
- Also known as: “Aţ Ţafīlah”, “Az Zarqā’”, “Muhafazat az Zarqa‘”, and “Zarqa”
Zarqa Governorate
- Categories: governorate of Jordan and locality
- Location: Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.9414° or 31° 56′ 29″ northLongitude
36.7495° or 36° 44′ 58″ eastPopulation
911,000Elevation
603 metres (1,978 feet)Open location code
8G3RWPRX+HQOpenStreetMap ID
node 13294463860OpenStreetMap feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
250092Wikidata ID
Q721445
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Zarqa Governorate” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الزرقاء”
- Arabic: “محافظة الزرقاء”
- Armenian: “Զարքայի մարզ”
- Basque: “Zarqa Gobernazioa”
- Basque: “Zarqa”
- Belarusian: “Эз-Зарка (мухафаза)”
- Belarusian: “Эз-Зарка”
- Bengali: “জারকা গভর্নোরেট”
- Catalan: “Governació de Zarqa”
- Cebuano: “Muḩāfaz̧at az Zarqā‘”
- Cebuano: “Muḩāfaz̧at az Zarqā’”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای زەرقا”
- Chinese: “Zarqa Séng”
- Chinese: “扎尔卡省”
- Chinese: “扎爾卡省”
- Czech: “Zarká”
- Danish: “Zarqa Governorate”
- Dutch: “Zarka”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محافظه الزرقا”
- Esperanto: “Zarkao”
- Finnish: “Az Zarqa”
- French: “Gouvernorat de Zarqa”
- French: “Zarqa”
- German: “az-Zarqa”
- German: “Gouvernement az-Zarqa”
- German: “Gouvernement Zarqa”
- German: “Muhafazat az-Zarqa”
- German: “Zarqa”
- Greek: “Κυβερνείο Ζάρκα”
- Gujarati: “ઝારકા ગવર્નોરેટ”
- Hebrew: “זרקא”
- Hebrew: “מחוז זרקא”
- Hindi: “ज़रक़ा प्रान्त”
- Hindi: “ज़ारका गवर्नरेट”
- Hungarian: “Zarká kormányzóság”
- Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Zarqa”
- Italian: “governatorato di al-Zarqa”
- Italian: “Governatorato di al-Zarqa”
- Italian: “Governatorato di Zarqa”
- Japanese: “ザルカ県”
- Kannada: “ಝರ್ಖಾ ಗವರ್ನೇಟ್”
- Korean: “자르카주”
- Latvian: “Zerkas muhāfaza”
- Lithuanian: “Zarkos muchafaza”
- Lithuanian: “Zarkos muhafaza”
- Malay: “Kegabenoran Zarqa”
- Marathi: “झर्क गव्हर्नोरेट”
- Mazanderani: “زرقاء استان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Zarqa Séng”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zarqa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zarqa guvernement”
- Norwegian: “Zarqa”
- Persian: “استان زرقا”
- Persian: “زرقا”
- Persian: “زرقاء”
- Polish: “Az-Zarka”
- Portuguese: “Governorado de Zarqa”
- Portuguese: “Zarqa”
- Romanian: “Guvernoratul Zarqa”
- Russian: “Эз-Зарка”
- Scots: “Zarqa Govrenorate”
- Sinhala: “සරකා පළාත”
- Spanish: “Gobernacion de Az Zarqa‘”
- Spanish: “Gobernación de Az Zarqa‘”
- Spanish: “Gobernacion de Zarka”
- Spanish: “Gobernación de Zarká”
- Spanish: “Gobernación de Zarqa‘”
- Swedish: “al-Zarqa”
- Swedish: “az-Zarqa”
- Swedish: “Az-Zarqa”
- Swedish: “Muhafazat az-Zarqa”
- Swedish: “Zarqa”
- Tamil: “சார்கியா கோவெர்னோரே”
- Telugu: “జర్ఖా గవర్నరేట్”
- Thai: “เขตผู้ว่าราชการอัซซัรกออ์”
- Turkish: “Zarqa Yönetimi”
- Turkish: “Zerka”
- Ukrainian: “Ез-Зарка”
- Ukrainian: “Зарка”
- Ukrainian: “Провінція Ез-Зарка”
- Urdu: “محافظہ زرقاء”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Zarqa”
- Welsh: “Ardal Lywodraethol Zarca”
- Welsh: “Ardal Lywodraethol Zarqa”
- Welsh: “Gofernad Zarqa”
- Western Armenian: “Զարքայի մարզ”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع زرقا”
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