Russeifa
Russeifa is a city in Zarqa Governorate in Jordan. It had a population of 472,604 inhabitants in 2015, making it the fourth-largest city in Jordan, after Amman, Irbid, and Zarqa.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 268,000 residents
- Description: city in Zarqa Governorate, Jordan
- Also known as: “Al Refeia”, “Al Rusayfah”, “Al-Ruseifa”, “Ar-Rusayfah”, “ar-Russayfah”, “Ar-Russeifa”, “Er Refeia”, “Rusayfah”, and “Russayfah”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Marka camp and Al-Zarqa’a Refugee Camp.
Marka camp
Neighborhood
The Marka refugee camp is one of six emergency camps erected in 1968 to shelter 15,000 Palestinian refugees fleeing the West Bank and the Gaza Strip due to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
Al-Zarqa’a Refugee Camp
Suburb
Zarqa Camp is one of the 10 officially recognized UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. It is located outside of Zarqa. It was the first Palestine refugee camp to be established in Jordan, in 1949, and one of the four camps founded to accommodate the refugees of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight.
Russeifa
- Category: locality
- Location: Zarqa Governorate, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.0175° or 32° 1′ 3″ northLongitude
36.0435° or 36° 2′ 37″ eastPopulation
268,000Elevation
614 metres (2,014 feet)Open location code
8G4R228V+X9OpenStreetMap ID
node 802870056OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
7838895Wikidata ID
Q2361176
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Russeifa” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Russeifa”
- Arabic: “الرصيفة”
- Arabic: “الرصيفه”
- Arabic: “رصيفة”
- Armenian: “Ռուսաիֆա”
- Asturian: “Russeifa”
- Basque: “Russeifa”
- Belarusian: “Эр-Русайфа”
- Bulgarian: “Русеифа”
- Catalan: “Russeifa”
- Cebuano: “Russeifa”
- Chinese: “魯塞法”
- Chinese: “魯賽法”
- Chinese: “鲁赛法”
- Czech: “Rusajfa”
- Dutch: “Russeifa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الرصيفه”
- Esperanto: “Rusaifa”
- Finnish: “Rusaifa”
- French: “Russeifa”
- German: “Russeifa”
- Greek: “Ρουσέιφα”
- Hebrew: “רוסייפה”
- Irish: “Russeifa”
- Japanese: “ルセイファ”
- Kalaallisut: “Russeifa”
- Kazakh: “Ar-Rwsaýfa qalası”
- Kazakh: “Ар-Русайфа қаласы”
- Kazakh: “ار-رۋسايفا قالاسى”
- Lithuanian: “Ruseifa”
- Malayalam: “റുസെയ്ഫ”
- Mazanderani: “الرصیفه”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Russeifa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Russeifa”
- Norwegian: “Russeifa”
- Persian: “الرصیفه”
- Persian: “رصیفه”
- Polish: “Ar-Rusajfa”
- Portuguese: “Russeifa”
- Romanian: “Russeifa”
- Russian: “Ар-Русайфа”
- Russian: “Ар-Русейфа”
- Russian: “Русайфа”
- Russian: “Русейфа”
- Russian: “Эр-Русайфа”
- Spanish: “Russeifa”
- Swedish: “ar-Rusayfa”
- Swedish: “Rusayfa”
- Swedish: “Russeifa”
- Turkish: “Ruseyfa”
- Ukrainian: “Ар-Руссайфа”
- Ukrainian: “Ар-Руссейфа”
- Ukrainian: “Ер-Руссайфа”
- Ukrainian: “Ер-Руссейфа”
- Ukrainian: “Руссайфа”
- Ukrainian: “Руссейфа”
- Urdu: “رصیفہ”
- Waray (Philippines): “Russeifa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Russiefa”
- Welsh: “Russeifa”
- Welsh: “Russiefa”
- Welsh: “Russifah”
- Welsh: “Rwseiffa”
- Western Panjabi: “روسیفا”
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