Amman Ring Road - Zarqa Highway Junction
Amman Ring Road - Zarqa Highway Junction is a road junction in Zarqa Governorate, Jordan. Amman Ring Road - Zarqa Highway Junction is situated nearby to the suburb Al-Zarqa’a Refugee Camp, as well as near the neighborhood Marka camp.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Al-Zarqa’a Refugee Camp and Zarqa.
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. Al-Zarqa’a Refugee Camp is situated 4½ km north of Amman Ring Road - Zarqa Highway Junction.
Zarqa
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Zarqa is the capital of Zarqa Governorate in Jordan. Its name means "the blue ". It had a population of 635,160 inhabitants in 2015, and is the second most populous city in Jordan after Amman.
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. Marka camp is situated 6 km west of Amman Ring Road - Zarqa Highway Junction.
Amman Ring Road - Zarqa Highway Junction
- Type: Road junction
- Category: transportation
- Location: Zarqa Governorate, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.01911° or 32° 1′ 9″ northLongitude
36.07722° or 36° 4′ 38″ eastElevation
614 metres (2,014 feet)Open location code
8G4R239G+JVGeoNames ID
7874177
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