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”, “Arbad”, “Arbela”, “Arbēla”, “Арабелла”, “Арабэла”, “Арбела”, and “ארביד”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Irbid camp.

Neighborhood
is one of the 10 officially recognized UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in .

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
UN/LOCODE
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: “Ірбід”
  • Bengali: “আইবিড”
  • Bulgarian: “Ирбид”
  • 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”
  • Georgian: “ირბიდი (ქალაქი)”
  • Georgian: “ირბიდი”
  • German: “Irbid”
  • Greek: “Ιρμπίντ”
  • Greek: “Ίρμπιντ”
  • Guarani: “Irbid”
  • Gujarati: “ઇરબિડ”
  • Hebrew: “אירביד”
  • Hindi: “इरबिद”
  • Hindi: “इर्बिद”
  • Hungarian: “Irbid”
  • Indonesian: “Irbid”
  • Irish: “Irbid”
  • Italian: “Irbid”
  • Japanese: “イルビド”
  • Kalaallisut: “Irbid”
  • Kannada: “ಇರಿಬಿಡ್”
  • Kannada: “ಇರ್ಬಿದ್”
  • 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: “Irbid”
  • Portuguese: “Irbid”
  • Portuguese: “Irbide”
  • Romanian: “Irbid”
  • Russian: “Ирбид”
  • Scots: “Irbid”
  • Sinhala: “ඉර්බිඩ්”
  • Slovenian: “Irbid”
  • Spanish: “Irbid”
  • Swedish: “Irbid”
  • Tajik: “Ирбид”
  • Tamil: “இருபிட்”
  • Telugu: “ఇర్బిడ్”
  • Thai: “อิรบิด”
  • Turkish: “İrbid”
  • Ukrainian: “Ірбід”
  • Urdu: “اربد”
  • Uzbek: “Irbid”
  • Venetian: “Irbid”
  • Vietnamese: “Irbid”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Irbid”
  • Welsh: “Irbid”
  • Western Panjabi: “اربد”

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