Amman
Amman is the capital and largest city of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan 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.
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Citadel Hill
Tourist attraction
The Amman Citadel is a historical site at the center of downtown Amman, the capital of Jordan. Photo: Cybjorg, CC BY 2.5.
Roman Theater
Theater
Amman's Roman Theatre is a 6,000-seat, 2nd-century Roman theatre. Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Temple of Hercules
Ruins
Temple of Hercules is a historic site in the Amman Citadel in Amman, Jordan. Photo: لا روسا, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Museum Citadel
Museum
The Jordan Archaeological Museum is located in the Amman Citadel of Amman, Jordan. Photo: Jeanhousen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Amman
- Type: City
- Description: capital of Jordan
- Categories: capital, administrative territorial entity of Jordan, big city and city with millions of inhabitants
- Location: Northern Jordan, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
Latitude 31.9516° or 31° 57' 5.6" north | Longitude 35.924° or 35° 55' 26.3" east |
Population 4,000,000 | IATA airport code AMM |
United Nations Location Code JO AMM | Elevation 757 metres (2484 feet) |
OpenStreetMap ID node 1643504896 | GeoNames ID 250441 |
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Ɛemman
- Achinese: Amman
- Adyghe: Амман
- Afar: Amman
- Afrikaans: Amman
- Albanian: Aman
- Albanian: Amani
- Albanian: Amman
- Amharic: አማን
- Arabic: Amman
- Arabic: عمان
- Arabic: عمّان
- Arabic: عمّون
- Armenian: Ամման
- Armenian: Ռաբբաթ-Ամմոն
- Arpitan: Amman
- Asturian: Amán
- Azerbaijani: Amman
- Banjar: Amman
- Bashkir: Амман
- Basque: Amman
- Belarusian: Аман
- Bengali: আম্মান
- Bosnian: Aman
- Bosnian: Amman
- Breton: Amman
- Bulgarian: Аман
- 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: Amman
- Estonian: ‘Ammān
- Faroese: Amman
- Fiji Hindi: Amman
- Finnish: Amman
- French: Amman
- Galician: Amán
- Georgian: ამანი
- German: Amman
- Greek: Αμμάν
- 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 (International Auxiliary Language Association): 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
- Kongo: Amman
- Korean: 암만
- Kurdish: Amman
- Kurdish: Emman
- Lao: Amman
- Latin: Philadelphia
- Latin: Philadelphia Iordaniae
- Latvian: Ammāna
- Ligurian: Amman
- Lithuanian: Amanas
- Livvi: Amman
- Lombard: Amman
- Low German: Amman
- Luxembourgish: Amman
- Macedo-Romanian: Amman
- Macedonian: Аман
- Maithili: अम्मान
- Malagasy: Amman
- Malay: Amman
- Malayalam: അമ്മാൻ
- Marathi: अम्मान
- Mazanderani: امان
- Min Dong Chinese: Amman
- Min Nan Chinese: Amman
- Mingrelian: ამანი
- Mongolian: Амман
- Moroccan Arabic: عمان
- Neapolitan: Amman
- Nepali: अम्मान
- Northern Luri: امان
- Northern Luri: ٱمان
- Norwegian: Amman
- Norwegian Bokmål: Amman
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Amman
- Novial: Aman
- Occitan (post 1500): Amman
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܥܡܐܢ
- 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
- Samogitian: Amans
- Santali: ᱟᱢᱢᱟᱱ
- Sardinian: Amman
- Scots: Amman
- Scottish Gaelic: Amman
- Serbian: Аман
- Serbo-Croatian: Amman
- Shona: Amman
- Sicilian: Amman
- Silesian: Amman
- Sindhi: اممان
- Sindhi: عمان (شهر)
- Sindhi: عَمان
- Sinhala: අම්මාන්
- Slovak: Ammán
- Slovenian: Aman
- South Azerbaijani: امان
- South Azerbaijani: عمان
- Spanish: Aman
- Spanish: Amman
- Spanish: Ammán
- Spanish: Amán
- Swahili: Amman
- Swedish: Amman
- Tagalog: Aman
- Tagalog: Amman
- Tajik: Аммон
- 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
- Western Panjabi: عمان شہر
- Wolof: Amman
- Wu Chinese: 安曼
- Yiddish: אמאן
- Yoruba: Amman
- Yue Chinese: 安曼
- Ammān
- Rabbah
- Rabbath Ammon
- אמאן, יארדאניע
Other Places Named Amman
- AmmanJordan
- AmmanVillage, Iraq
- Maḩaţţat ‘AmmānRailroad station, Jordan
- ‘AmmānBuilding, Syria
- AmmanFarm, Zimbabwe
In the Area
Localities
Landmarks
- Ra’s al ‘AynRuin
- Le Royal HotelHotel
- Jabal Al MarreikhMountain
- Jabal al LuwaybidahHill
- KhunayfisahArchaeological/prehistoric site
- Umm ŞuwaywīnahRuin
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