Fuheis
Fuheis is a Christian majority town in the central Jordanian governorate of Balqa. It lies in between Salt and Amman, at a distance of 6 and 13 kilometers respectively.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 220,000 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Al Fuhays”, “Al Fuḩayş”, “El Fuheis”, “Feheis”, and “Fuḥeiṣ”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Salt and Wadi Al Seer.
Salt
Photo: Thilver, CC BY-SA 4.0.
As-Salt, also known as Salt, is an ancient trading city and administrative centre in west-central Jordan. It is on the old main highway leading from Amman to Jerusalem.
Wadi Al Seer
Suburb
Wadi Al-Seer or Wadi as-Seer is a valley west of Amman, which gave its name to one of the twenty-two districts of the Greater Amman Municipality in Jordan. Wadi Al Seer is situated 8 km southeast of Fuheis.
Al-Bassah
Village
Al-Bassah is a town in the Amman Governorate in northern Jordan. The town is known for Roman-Byzantine architectural remains of a large cave church, and a second church built outside in front of the entrance. Al-Bassah is situated 9 km south of Fuheis.
Fuheis
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Balqa Governorate, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.00974° or 32° 0′ 35″ northLongitude
35.76898° or 35° 46′ 8″ eastPopulation
220,000Elevation
918 metres (3,012 feet)United Nations Location Code
JO FUHOpen location code
8G4Q2Q59+VHOpenStreetMap ID
node 802856920OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Urdu—“Fuheis” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Fuheis”
- Arabic: “الفحيص”
- Arabic: “جحفية”
- Arabic: “فحيص”
- Dutch: “Fuheis”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الفحيص”
- Finnish: “Fuhais”
- French: “Al Fuhays”
- German: “Fuheis”
- Greek: “Φουχέις”
- Hebrew: “פוחייס”
- Irish: “Fuheis”
- Italian: “Al Fuheis”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fuheis”
- Persian: “فحیص”
- Polish: “Al-Fuhajs”
- Portuguese: “Fuheis”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Фухейс”
- Ukrainian: “Фухейс”
- Urdu: “فحیص”
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