Al-Jizah
Al-Jizah, historically known as Ziza or Zizia, is a town in northwestern Jordan. It is the 22nd district of the Amman Governorate. During the medieval period it served as a waystation for pilgrims en route to the Hajj in Mecca.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 4,400 residents
- Description: human settlement in Jordan
- Also known as: “Al Jizah”, “Al-Jizah, Jordan”, “Jîza”, “Jīzah”, “Jīze”, and “Ziza”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Talbieh camp.
Talbieh camp
Village
Talbieh Camp is one of the 10 officially recognized UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. It is located about 35 kilometres south of Amman, placing it within the main urban area of Al-Jeezah, immediately to the west of where Desert Highway passes through the town.
Al-Jizah
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Amman Governorate, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.7° or 31° 42′ northLongitude
35.95° or 35° 57′ eastPopulation
4,400Elevation
717 metres (2,352 feet)United Nations Location Code
JO 8AJOpen location code
8G3QPW2X+2XOpenStreetMap ID
node 802876374OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Urdu—“Al-Jizah” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Al Jizah”
- Albanian: “El-Xhize”
- Arabic: “الجيزة”
- Arabic: “جحفية”
- Arabic: “جيزة”
- Cebuano: “Al Jīzah”
- Dutch: “Al Jizah”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الجيزه”
- French: “Al Jizah”
- German: “Al Jizah”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al Jizah i Jordan”
- Persian: “جیزه”
- Romanian: “Al-Jizah”
- Russian: “Эль-Джиза”
- Scots: “Al Jizah, Jordan”
- Scots: “Al Jizah”
- Swedish: “Al-Jiza, Jordanien”
- Swedish: “al-Jiza”
- Turkish: “El-Cize, Amman”
- Turkish: “El-Cize”
- Urdu: “الجیزہ، اردن”
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