Al-Jafr
Al-Jafr is a city in the Ma'an Governorate of Jordan. It is located near the city of Ma'an, and is roughly 300 kilometres east of Amman. It was the site of an April Fools' Day hoax in 2010 that has drawn comparisons to the famous American The War of the Worlds broadcast.
- Type: Village with 3,560 residents
- Description: human settlement in Jordan
- Also known as: “Al-Jafr, Jordan”, “El Jafr”, and “Jafer”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include King Faisal Airbase.
King Faisal Airbase
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Al-Jafr
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Ma’an Governorate, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.31751° or 30° 19′ 3″ north
Longitude
36.18527° or 36° 11′ 7″ east
Population
3,560
Elevation
864 metres (2,835 feet)
Open location code
8G2R859P+24
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Turkish—“Al-Jafr” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “El-Xhafr”
- Arabic: “الجفر”
- Cebuano: “Al Jafr”
- Dutch: “Al-Jafr”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الجفر”
- French: “Al-Jafr”
- Irish: “Al-Jafr”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al-Jafr i Jordan”
- Persian: “الجفر”
- Polish: “Al-Dżafr”
- Romanian: “Al-Jafr, Iordania”
- Romanian: “Al-Jafr”
- Russian: “Эль-Джафр”
- Swedish: “Al Jafr”
- Turkish: “El-Cafer, Ürdün”
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