Irbid

Irbid is a city in northern , some 88 km north of the capital . Archaeological evidence reveals that Irbid has been settled since the Bronze Age.
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  • Type: City with 292,000 residents
  • Description: city in Jordan
  • Also known as: Arabella”, “Arbela”, and “Arbēla

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Irbid camp.

Neighborhood
is one of the 10 officially recognized UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in . It is located outside of Irbid. It was one of the four camps founded in Jordan to accommodate the refugees of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight, the others being , and .

Irbid

Latitude
32.5556° or 32° 33′ 20″ north
Longitude
35.8493° or 35° 50′ 58″ east
Population
292,000
Elevation
570 metres (1,870 feet)
IATA airport code
QIR
United Nations Location Code
JO QIR
Open location code
8G4QHR4X+6P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 270873161
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
248946
Wiki­data ID
Q194165
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Irbid” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: Irbid
  • Arabic: إربد
  • Armenian: Իրբիդ
  • Asturian: Irbid
  • Azerbaijani: İrbid
  • Basque: Irbid
  • Belarusian: Арабэла
  • Belarusian: Ірбід
  • Bengali: আইবিড
  • Bulgarian: Ирбид
  • Catalan: Arbad
  • Catalan: Irbid
  • Cebuano: Irbid
  • Chinese: 伊尔比德
  • Chinese: 伊爾比德
  • Czech: Irbid
  • Danish: Irbid
  • Dutch: Irbid
  • Egyptian Arabic: اربد
  • Esperanto: Irbid
  • Esperanto: Irbido
  • Finnish: Irbid
  • French: Irbid
  • German: Arabella
  • German: Arbela
  • German: Irbid
  • Greek: Ιρμπίντ
  • Greek: Ίρμπιντ
  • Guarani: Irbid
  • Gujarati: ઇરબિડ
  • Hebrew: אירביד
  • Hebrew: ארביד
  • Hindi: इरबिद
  • Hindi: इर्बिद
  • Hungarian: Irbid
  • Indonesian: Irbid
  • Irish: Irbid
  • Italian: Irbid
  • Japanese: イルビド
  • Kalaallisut: Irbid
  • Kannada: ಇರಿಬಿಡ್
  • Kazakh: Ïrbïd qalası
  • Kazakh: Ирбид қаласы
  • Kazakh: ىيربىيد قالاسى
  • Korean: 이르비드
  • Latvian: Irbida
  • Lithuanian: Irbidas
  • Malay: Irbid
  • Marathi: इर्बिड
  • Mazanderani: اربد
  • Mingrelian: ირბიდი
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Irbid
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Irbid
  • Norwegian: Irbid
  • Ossetian: Ирбид
  • Persian: اربد
  • Polish: Arabella
  • Polish: Arbela
  • Polish: Irbid
  • Portuguese: Irbid
  • Portuguese: Irbide
  • Romanian: Irbid
  • Russian: Ирбид
  • Scots: Irbid
  • Sinhala: ඉර්බිඩ්
  • Slovenian: Irbid
  • Spanish: Irbid
  • Swedish: Irbid
  • Tamil: இருபிட்
  • Telugu: ఇర్బిడ్
  • Thai: อิรบิด
  • Turkish: İrbid
  • Ukrainian: Арабелла
  • Ukrainian: Арбела
  • Ukrainian: Ірбід
  • Urdu: اربد
  • Uzbek: Irbid
  • Venetian: Irbid
  • Vietnamese: Irbid
  • Waray (Philippines): Irbid
  • Welsh: Arabella
  • Welsh: Arbela
  • Welsh: Irbid
  • Western Panjabi: اربد

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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 “Irbid”. Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.