Jordan
Northern Jordan
Amman Governorate

Amman

Amman is the capital and largest city of the Hashemite Kingdom of with a population of about 4 million as of 2020. Amman forms a great base for exploring the country and does, despite popular belief, hold a few items of interest to the traveler.
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  • Type: City with 4,000,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Jordan
  • Also known as: “Aman”, “Amman, Jordan”, “Ammon”, “Philadelphia”, “Rabbah”, “Rabbath Ammon”, and “ʿAmmān”
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Citadel Hill and Roman Theater.

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The Amman Citadel on is an archaeological site on an L-shaped hill towering over Downtown Amman, in the central part of the capital of .

Theater building
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Roman Theatre of Amman is a 6,000-seat, 2nd-century Roman theatre. A famous landmark in the Jordanian capital, it dates back to the Roman period when the city was known as Philadelphia.

Mosque
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY 3.0.
The is a , located in Amman, . Named in honour of Abdullah I, the mosque was built between 1982 and 1989 and is capped by a blue mosaic dome beneath which 3,000 Muslims may offer prayer.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Al-Wehdat camp and Jabal el-Hussein camp.

Neighborhood
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Amman New Camp, usually known as the Al-Wehdat or Al-Wihdat camp, which is located in the Hay Al Awdah neighbourhood in southeast Amman, the capital city of , occupies a 0.48 km2.

Neighborhood
is one of the 10 officially recognized UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in . It is located outside of the Abdali area district of Amman.

Amman

Latitude
31.9516° or 31° 57′ 6″ north
Longitude
35.924° or 35° 55′ 26″ east
Population
4,000,000
Elevation
757 metres (2,484 feet)
IATA airport code
AMM
United Nations Location Code
JO AMM
Open location code
8G3QXW2F+JH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1643504896
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
250441
Wiki­data ID
Q3805
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Amman” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Amman”
  • Adyghe: “Амман”
  • Afrikaans: “Amman”
  • Albanian: “Aman”
  • Albanian: “Amani”
  • Albanian: “Amman”
  • Amharic: “አማን”
  • Arabic: “عمان”
  • Arabic: “عمّان”
  • Arabic: “عَمَّان”
  • Arabic: “عمّون”
  • Arabic: “مدينة عمان”
  • Arabic: “مدينة عمّان”
  • Aragonese: “Ammán”
  • Armenian: “Ամման”
  • Armenian: “Ռաբբաթ-Ամմոն”
  • Arpitan: “Aman”
  • Arpitan: “Amman”
  • Asturian: “Amán”
  • Azerbaijani: “Amman”
  • Balinese: “Amman”
  • Banjar: “Amman”
  • Bashkir: “Амман”
  • Basque: “Amman”
  • Belarusian: “Аман”
  • Bengali: “আম্মান”
  • Betawi: “Aman”
  • Bosnian: “Aman”
  • Bosnian: “Amman”
  • Breton: “Amman”
  • Bulgarian: “Аман”
  • Burmese: “အမ်မန်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Amman”
  • Cebuano: “Amman”
  • Central Bikol: “Amman”
  • Central Kurdish: “عەممان”
  • Chechen: “Амман”
  • Chechen: “Ӏамман”
  • Chinese: “Amman”
  • Chinese: “安曼”
  • Chuvash: “Амман”
  • Croatian: “Amman”
  • Czech: “Ammán”
  • Danish: “Amman”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Amman”
  • Dutch: “Amman (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Amman”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “عمان”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “عمّان”
  • Esperanto: “Amano”
  • Estonian: “‘Ammān”
  • Estonian: “Amman”
  • Faroese: “Amman”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Amman”
  • Finnish: “Amman”
  • French: “Amman”
  • Galician: “Amán”
  • Georgian: “ამანი”
  • German: “Amman”
  • Greek: “Αμμάν”
  • Greek: “Ῥαββαταμανα”
  • Guarani: “Amã”
  • Gujarati: “અમ્માન”
  • Haitian: “Amàn”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Amman”
  • Hausa: “Amman”
  • Hawaiian: “Amman”
  • Hebrew: “עמאן”
  • Hebrew: “רבת עמון”
  • Hindi: “अम्मान”
  • Hungarian: “Ammán”
  • Icelandic: “Amman”
  • Ido: “Amman”
  • Iloko: “Amman”
  • Inari Sami: “Amman”
  • Indonesian: “Amman”
  • Interlingua: “Amman”
  • Interlingue: “Amman”
  • Irish: “Amman”
  • Italian: “Amman”
  • Japanese: “アンマン”
  • Javanese: “Amman”
  • Kabardian: “Амман”
  • Kabyle: “Ɛemman”
  • Kalaallisut: “Amman”
  • Kannada: “ಅಮ್ಮಾನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Amman”
  • Kazakh: “Амман”
  • Kirghiz: “Амман”
  • Komering: “Amman”
  • Kongo: “Amman”
  • Korean: “암만”
  • Kurdish: “Amman”
  • Kurdish: “Eman”
  • Kurdish: “Emman”
  • Latin: “Philadelphia Iordaniae”
  • Latin: “Philadelphia” (historical)
  • Latvian: “Ammāna”
  • Ligurian: “Amman”
  • Literary Chinese: “安曼”
  • Lithuanian: “Amanas”
  • Livvi: “Amman”
  • Lombard: “Amman”
  • Low German: “Amman”
  • Lule Sami: “Amman”
  • Luxembourgish: “Amman”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Amman”
  • Macedonian: “Аман”
  • Maithili: “अम्मान”
  • Malagasy: “Amman”
  • Malay: “Amman”
  • Malay: “عمان”
  • Malayalam: “അമ്മാൻ”
  • Maltese: “Amman”
  • Marathi: “अम्मान”
  • Mazanderani: “امان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Amman”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Amman”
  • Minangkabau: “Amman”
  • Mingrelian: “ამანი”
  • Moksha: “Амман”
  • Mongolian: “Амман”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “عمان”
  • Narom: “Amane”
  • Neapolitan: “Amman”
  • Nepali: “अम्मान”
  • Northern Frisian: “Amman”
  • Northern Luri: “امان”
  • Northern Sami: “Amman”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Amman”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Amman”
  • Norwegian: “Amman”
  • Novial: “Aman”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Amman”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Amman”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܥܡܐܢ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ࡏࡀࡌࡀࡍ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Amman”
  • Ossetian: “Амман”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਮਾਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Aman”
  • Persian: “امان”
  • Persian: “عَمّان”
  • Piemontese: “Amman”
  • Polish: “Amman”
  • Portuguese: “Amã”
  • Pushto: “آمان”
  • Quechua: “Amman”
  • Romanian: “Amman”
  • Russia Buriat: “Амман”
  • Russian: “Амман”
  • Russian: “Филадельфия”
  • Sakizaya: “An-man”
  • Samogitian: “Amans”
  • Santali: “ᱟᱢᱢᱟᱱ”
  • Sardinian: “Amman”
  • Scots: “Amman”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Amman”
  • Serbian: “Аман”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aman”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Amman”
  • Shona: “Amman”
  • Sicilian: “Amman”
  • Silesian: “Amman”
  • Sindhi: “اممان”
  • Sindhi: “عمان (شهر)”
  • Sindhi: “عمان، اردن”
  • Sinhala: “අම්මාන්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Amman”
  • Slovak: “Ammán”
  • Slovenian: “Aman”
  • South Azerbaijani: “امان”
  • South Azerbaijani: “عمان”
  • Spanish: “Aman”
  • Spanish: “Amán”
  • Spanish: “Amman”
  • Spanish: “Ammán”
  • Swahili: “Amman”
  • Swedish: “Amman”
  • Tagalog: “Aman”
  • Tagalog: “Amman”
  • Tajik: “Аммон”
  • Talysh: “Amman”
  • Tamil: “அம்மான்”
  • Tatar: “Амман”
  • Telugu: “అమ్మన్”
  • Thai: “อัมมาน”
  • Tibetan: “ཨམ་མན།”
  • Turkish: “Amman”
  • Turkmen: “Amman”
  • Udmurt: “Амман”
  • Uighur: “ئاممان”
  • Ukrainian: “Амман”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Amman”
  • Urdu: “عمان”
  • Uzbek: “Amman”
  • Venetian: “Amman”
  • Veps: “Amman”
  • Vietnamese: “Amman”
  • Volapük: “Amman”
  • Võro: “Amman”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Amman”
  • Welsh: “Amman”
  • Western Armenian: “Ամման”
  • Western Frisian: “Amman”
  • Western Panjabi: “عمان شہر”
  • Western Panjabi: “عمان”
  • Wolof: “Amman”
  • Wu Chinese: “安曼”
  • Yiddish: “אמאן, יארדאניע”
  • Yiddish: “אמאן”
  • Yoruba: “Amman”
  • Yue Chinese: “安曼”
  • Zulu: “i-Amman”
  • “Amans”
  • “Amman”
  • “Ammān”
  • “ma tomo Aman”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Amman”. Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY 3.0.