Ḩayy al Jundī

Ḩayy al Jundī is a locality in , . Ḩayy al Jundī is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Al-Zarqa’a Refugee Camp and Zarqa.

Suburb
Zarqa Camp is one of the 10 officially recognized UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in . It is located outside of . 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. is situated 3½ km north of Ḩayy al Jundī.

Photo: Yazan4HD, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the capital of in . 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 .

Neighborhood
The Marka refugee camp is one of six emergency camps erected in 1968 to shelter 15,000 Palestinian refugees fleeing the and the due to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. is situated 6 km west of Ḩayy al Jundī.

Ḩayy al Jundī

Latitude
32.02676° or 32° 1′ 36″ north
Longitude
36.07973° or 36° 4′ 47″ east
Elevation
606 metres (1,988 feet)
Open location code
8G4R23GH+PV
Geo­Names ID
11542666
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In Other Languages

“Ḩayy al Jundī” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “حي الجندي”

Localities in the Area

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