Balqa Governorate
Balqa' is one of the governorates of Jordan. It is located northwest of Amman, Jordan's capital. The governorate has the fourth largest population of the 12 governorates of Jordan, and is ranked 10th by area.
- State with 410,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 563 metres (1,847 feet)
- Description: governorate of Jordan
- Also known as“Al Balqā’”“Balqa”“Governorate of Al Balqā”“Liwā’ al Balqā’”“Muhafazat al Balqa‘”
Balqa Governorate
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Latitude
32.0061° or 32° 0′ 22″ north
Longitude
35.6344° or 35° 38′ 4″ east
Open location code
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Balqa Governorate” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Governorati Balqa”
- Albanian: “Governorati Belka”
- Amharic: “ባልቃ”
- Arabic: “البلقاء”
- Arabic: “بلقاء”
- Arabic: “محافظة البلقاء”
- Arabic: “محافظة بلقاء”
- Azerbaijani: “Balqa”
- Basque: “Balqa Gobernazioa”
- Basque: “Balqa”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Бака”
- Bengali: “বাল্কা গভর্নোরেট”
- Catalan: “Al Balqā”
- Catalan: “Al-Balka”
- Catalan: “Al-Balqa”
- Catalan: “Balka”
- Cebuano: “Muḩāfaz̧at al Balqā‘”
- Cebuano: “Muḩāfaz̧at al Balqā’”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای بەلقا”
- Chinese: “拜勒加省”
- Czech: “Balká”
- Danish: “Balqa Governorate”
- Dutch: “Balka”
- Esperanto: “Balkao”
- Finnish: “Al Balqa‘”
- Finnish: “Al Balqa’”
- French: “Balqa”
- French: “Gouvernorat de Balqa”
- German: “Gouvernement al-Balqa”
- Greek: “Κυβερνείο Μπάλκα”
- Gujarati: “બાલ્કા ગવર્નોરેટ”
- Hausa: “Balqa”
- Hebrew: “בלקא”
- Hindi: “बल्क़ा प्रान्त”
- Hindi: “बालका गवर्नरेट”
- Hungarian: “Balká kormányzóság”
- Indonesian: “Balqa Governorate”
- Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Balqa”
- Italian: “governatorato di Balqa”
- Italian: “Governatorato di Balqa”
- Japanese: “バルカ県”
- Javanese: “Balqa”
- Kannada: “ಬಲ್ಕಾ ಗವರ್ನೇಟ್”
- Kazakh: “Балқа”
- Kirghiz: “Балқа”
- Korean: “발카주”
- Latvian: “Balkas muhāfaza”
- Lithuanian: “Balkos muchafaza”
- Lithuanian: “Balkos muhafaza”
- Malay: “Balqa Governorate”
- Malay: “Kegabenoran Balqa”
- Maltese: “Governorat ta‘ Balqa”
- Marathi: “बालका गव्हर्नोरेट”
- Mazanderani: “البقاء استان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Balqa Séng”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Balqa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Balqa guvernement”
- Norwegian: “Balqa”
- Oromo: “Balqa”
- Panjabi: “ਬਾਲਕਾ”
- Persian: “استان بلقا”
- Persian: “بلقا”
- Persian: “بلقاء”
- Polish: “Al-Balka”
- Polish: “Balka”
- Portuguese: “Balga”
- Portuguese: “Balqa”
- Pushto: “البلقاء”
- Romanian: “Guvernoratul Balqa”
- Russian: “Эль-Балка”
- Scots: “Balqa Govrenorate”
- Sinhala: “බල්කා පරිපාලන කොට්ටාශය”
- Somali: “Balqa”
- Spanish: “Al-Bālqāʾ”
- Spanish: “Gobernación Balqa‘”
- Spanish: “Gobernacion de Al Balqa‘”
- Spanish: “Gobernación de Al Balqa‘”
- Spanish: “Gobernación de Balqa‘”
- Swahili: “Balqa”
- Swedish: “al-Balqa”
- Swedish: “Al-Balqa”
- Swedish: “Balqa”
- Tajik: “Балқа”
- Tamil: “பல்கா ஆளுநரகம்”
- Tamil: “பால்கா ஆளுநரகம்”
- Tamil: “பால்கா கவர்னரேட்”
- Tamil: “பால்கா மாகாணம்”
- Tatar: “Балқа”
- Telugu: “బాల్ఖా గవర్నరేట్”
- Thai: “เขตผู้ว่าราชการอัลบัลกออ์”
- Turkish: “Balqa Yönetimi”
- Turkish: “Belka”
- Ukrainian: “Балка”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Балка”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Балька”
- Ukrainian: “Провінція Ель-Балка”
- Urdu: “محافظہ بلقاء”
- Uzbek: “Balqa”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Balqa”
- Western Armenian: “Պալքայի մարզ”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع بلقا”
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