Amman Civil Airport

Amman City Airport, is located in Marka district, , some 5 kilometres northeast of the capital 's city centre. During World War I, an airstrip was established near Amman in 1915 for use by German airplanes, then an ally of the ruling Ottoman Empire.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport serving Amman, Jordan
  • Also known as: “ADJ”, “Amman Airport”, “Amman City Airport”, “Marka Airport”, “Marka International Airport”, “Matar Amman Al Madani Airport”, and “OJAM”

Places of Interest

Highlights include ‘Ain Ghazal.

Archaeological site
Photo: Jeanhousen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ayn Ghazal is a Neolithic archaeological site located in , , about 2 km north-west of Amman Civil Airport. The site is remarkable for being the place where the ʿAin Ghazal statues were found, which are among the oldest large-sized statues ever discovered.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Marka camp and Jabal el-Hussein camp.

Neighborhood
The Marka refugee camp is one of six emergency camps erected in 1968 to shelter 15,000 Palestinian refugees fleeing the and the due to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

Neighborhood
Photo: Hasanisawi, Public domain.
is one of the 10 officially recognized UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in . It is located outside of the Abdali area district of .

Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY 3.0.
is the capital and largest city of the Hashemite Kingdom of with a population of about 4 million as of 2020. forms a great base for exploring the country and does, despite popular belief, hold a few items of interest to the traveler.

Amman Civil Airport

Latitude
31.97331° or 31° 58′ 24″ north
Longitude
35.99239° or 35° 59′ 33″ east
Elevation
778 metres (2,552 feet)
IATA airport code
ADJ
ICAO airport code
OJAM
United Nations Location Code
JO AMM
Open location code
8G3QXXFR+8X
Open­Street­Map ID
way 156580173
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
250437
Wiki­data ID
Q1432011
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Amman Civil Airport” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مطار عمان المدني”
  • Arabic: “مطار عمان”
  • Arabic: “مطار ماركا الدولي”
  • Arabic: “مطار ماركا”
  • Arabic: “مطار مدينة عمان”
  • Asturian: “Aeropuertu Civil d’Amán”
  • Asturian: “Aeropuertu Civil de Amán”
  • Cebuano: “Amman Civil Airport”
  • Chinese: “安曼民航機場”
  • Chinese: “马尔卡国际机场”
  • Dutch: “Amman Civil Airport”
  • French: “aéroport civil d’Amman”
  • French: “Aéroport civil d’Amman”
  • French: “Aéroport Marka”
  • German: “Flughafen Marka International”
  • German: “OJAM”
  • Greek: “Αεροδρόμιο Αμμάν”
  • Hebrew: “נמל התעופה האזרחי של עמאן”
  • Indonesian: “ADJ”
  • Indonesian: “OJAM”
  • Italian: “aeroporto civile di Amman”
  • Japanese: “アンマン・シビル空港”
  • Japanese: “アンマン（マルカ）”
  • Japanese: “アンマン＝マルカ”
  • Japanese: “アンマン市営空港”
  • Japanese: “アンマン民間空港”
  • Japanese: “アンマン空港”
  • Japanese: “マルカ国際空港”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Marka”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه کشوری امان”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه کشوری عمان”
  • Polish: “Port lotniczy Marka”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Amman Civil”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto Civil de Aman”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto Civil de Amán”
  • Swedish: “Amman Civil Airport”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи кишваре ъуммон”
  • Urdu: “عمان شہری ہوائی اڈا”
  • Welsh: “Maes Awyr Sifil Amman”
  • Wu Chinese: “马尔卡国际机场”
  • “ADJ”
  • “OJAM”

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