Rabba
Rabba is a town in Jordan in the Karak Governorate. As ancient Areopolis, it is a former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see. Rabba lies about 15 kilometres north of the city of Al-Karak. It had a population of about 7200 in 2015.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 4,230 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Ar Rabba”, “Areopolis”, “El Rebbe”, and “Er Rabba”
Rabba
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kerak, King’s Highway, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.26922° or 31° 16′ 9″ northLongitude
35.73777° or 35° 44′ 16″ eastPopulation
4,230Elevation
964 metres (3,163 feet)Open location code
8G3Q7P9Q+M4OpenStreetMap ID
node 5434934089OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
250345Wikidata ID
Q847351
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Rabba” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الربة”
- Arabic: “الربة”
- Cebuano: “Ar Rabbah”
- Dutch: “Rabba”
- French: “Rabba”
- German: “Rabbat-Moab”
- Hebrew: “ראבה”
- Irish: “Rabba”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rabba”
- Polish: “Ar-Rabba”
- Russian: “Эр-Рабба”
- Swedish: “Rabba”
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