Shoubak
Shoubak is a municipality that lies at the northwestern edge of the Ma'an Governorate in Jordan. It had a population of 19,297. At one of the highest elevations above sea level in Jordan, this municipality is famous for apple and fruit farms.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 50 residents
- Description: human settlement in Jordan
- Also known as: “Ash Shawbak”, “Esh Shobek”, “Shaubak”, “Shaubak Fort”, “Shawbak Fort”, and “Shobek”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shoubak.
Shoubak
Castle
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Montreal, or Qal'at ash-Shawbak in Arabic, is a castle built by the Crusaders and expanded by the Mamluks, on the eastern side of the Arabah Valley, perched on the side of a rocky, conical mountain, looking out over fruit orchards below.
Shoubak
- Category: human settlement
- Location: Ma’an Governorate, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Urdu—“Shoubak” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Shoubak”
- Arabic: “الشوبك (الأردن)”
- Arabic: “الشوبك (بلدة)”
- Arabic: “الشوبك”
- Armenian: “Ալ-Շուբաք”
- Catalan: “Shawbak”
- Catalan: “Shoubak”
- Catalan: “Xawbak”
- Cebuano: “Shoubak”
- Chinese: “舒拜克”
- Dutch: “Shoubak”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الشوبك”
- Finnish: “Shobak”
- German: “Shoubak”
- Hebrew: “שובכ”
- Indonesian: “Al-Shoubak”
- Irish: “Shoubak”
- Japanese: “ショーバック”
- Lithuanian: “Šubakas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shoubak”
- Persian: “الشوبک، اردن”
- Polish: “Asz-Szaubak”
- Portuguese: “Shoubak”
- Romanian: “Shoubak”
- Russian: “Шобак”
- Russian: “Эш-Шаубак”
- Scots: “Shoubak”
- Spanish: “Shawbak”
- Swedish: “al-Shubak”
- Swedish: “ash-Shubak”
- Swedish: “Ash-Shubak”
- Swedish: “Shubak”
- Turkish: “Şubak”
- Ukrainian: “Еш-Шобак”
- Ukrainian: “Еш-Шубак”
- Ukrainian: “Шобак”
- Ukrainian: “Шубак”
- Urdu: “شوبک”
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