Jerash
Jerash, a city in northern Jordan, is famous for its Roman ruins. The archaeological site is popular for tourists, second only to Petra.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 27,000 residents
- Description: city in Jordan
- Also known as: “Djerash” and “Jerasa”
- Historically known as: “Gerasa”
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Temple of Artemis and Oval Forum.
The Temple of Artemis
Ruins
The Temple of Artemis at Gerasa is a Roman peripteral temple in Jerash, Jordan. The temple was built in the middle of the highest of the two terraces of the sanctuary, in the core of the ancient city.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Souf camp and Jerash camp.
Souf camp
Village
Souf Camp is a Palestinian refugee camp situated nearby the town of Souf and the city of Jerash in Jordan. According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, there was 21,900 people living in the camp in 2005, of which 20,530 were registered refugees. Souf camp is situated 3½ km northwest of Jerash.
Jerash camp
Village
Jerash camp, known locally as Gaza camp, is one of the ten officially recognized UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. It is located five kilometres from the Roman ruins of Jerash. Jerash camp is situated 4 km southwest of Jerash.
Jerash
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Jerash Governorate, Northern Jordan, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.2812° or 32° 16′ 52″ northLongitude
35.901° or 35° 54′ 4″ eastPopulation
27,000Elevation
620 metres (2,034 feet)Open location code
8G4Q7WJ2+FCOpenStreetMap ID
node 271009425OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
248875Wikidata ID
Q31565
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Jerash” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Jerash”
- Albanian: “Xherash”
- Arabic: “جحفية”
- Arabic: “جرش”
- Arabic: “مدينة جرش”
- Armenian: “Ջարաշ”
- Asturian: “Jerash”
- Basque: “Jerax”
- Belarusian: “Джараш”
- Catalan: “Gerasa”
- Catalan: “Gèrasa”
- Catalan: “Gerash”
- Catalan: “Jerash”
- Chinese: “傑拉什”
- Chinese: “杰拉什”
- Czech: “Džaraš”
- Dutch: “Gerasa”
- Dutch: “Gerash”
- Dutch: “Jerash”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جرش”
- Esperanto: “Ĝeraŝ”
- Estonian: “Jarash”
- Estonian: “Jerash”
- Finnish: “Gerasa”
- Finnish: “Jerash”
- French: “Djerach”
- French: “Gerasa”
- French: “Gérasa”
- French: “Jarash”
- French: “Jerash”
- French: “Jérash”
- Galician: “Xerasa”
- German: “Dscheras”
- German: “Gerasa”
- German: “Jarash”
- Greek: “Γέρασα”
- Greek: “Τζεράς”
- Hebrew: “אנטיוכיה על נהר הזהב”
- Hebrew: “ג’רש”
- Hebrew: “גרסה”
- Hebrew: “גרש”
- Hindi: “जेराश”
- Hungarian: “Dzseras”
- Hungarian: “Gerasa”
- Indonesian: “Jerash”
- Italian: “Jarash”
- Italian: “Jerash”
- Japanese: “ゲラサ”
- Japanese: “ジェラシュ”
- Japanese: “ジェラッシュ”
- Japanese: “ジャラシュ”
- Kazakh: “Джараш қаласы”
- Korean: “제라시”
- Lithuanian: “Džarašas”
- Lithuanian: “Džerašas”
- Lithuanian: “Gerasa”
- Malay: “Jerash”
- Malayalam: “ജെറാഷ്”
- Mingrelian: “ჯერაში”
- Nepali: “जेरास”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Farash”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gerasa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jerash”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jerash”
- Norwegian: “Jerash”
- Persian: “جرش”
- Polish: “Dżarasz”
- Polish: “Dżerasz”
- Polish: “Geraza”
- Polish: “Jerash”
- Portuguese: “Gerasa”
- Portuguese: “Gérasa”
- Portuguese: “Gerasenos”
- Portuguese: “Jarash”
- Portuguese: “Jerash”
- Romanian: “Jerash”
- Russian: “Джараш”
- Russian: “Джераш”
- Serbian: “Џераш”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Džeraš”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gerasa”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jerash”
- Silesian: “Dżarasz”
- Slovenian: “Džeraš”
- Slovenian: “Gerasa”
- Spanish: “Gerasa”
- Spanish: “Jerash”
- Swedish: “Jarash”
- Swedish: “Jerash”
- Tagalog: “Jerash”
- Tatar: “Җараш каласы”
- Thai: “ญะร็อช”
- Turkish: “Ceraş”
- Ukrainian: “Джераш”
- Urdu: “جرش”
- Welsh: “Geras”
- Welsh: “Geraz”
- Welsh: “Geresa”
- Welsh: “Jarash”
- Welsh: “Jerash”
- Western Armenian: “Ժարաշ”
- Western Armenian: “Ճարաշ”
- Western Panjabi: “جرش”
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