Jerash
Jerash, a city in northern Jordan, is famous for its Roman ruins. The archaeological site is popular for tourists, second only to Petra.
- Type: Town with 27,000 residents
- Description: city in Jordan
- Also known as: “Djerach”, “Djerash”, “Dscheras”, “Džerašas”, “Dżerasz”, “Farash”, “Geras”, “Gèrasa”, “Gerasenos”, “Gerash”, “Geraz”, “Geraza”, “Geresa”, “Jerasa”, “Jérash”, “Τζεράς”, “אנטיוכיה על נהר הזהב”, “גרסה”, “جحفية”, “مدينة جرش”, “ゲラサ”, and “ジェラッシュ”
- Historically known as: “Gerasa”
Places of Interest
Highlights: 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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Souf camp and Jerash camp.
Souf camp
Village
Souf Camp is a Palestinian refugee camp situated… Souf camp is situated 3½ km northwest of Jerash.
Jerash camp
Village
Jerash camp, known locally as Gaza camp, is one of the… Jerash camp is situated 4 km southwest of Jerash.
Jerash
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Jerash Governorate, Northern Jordan, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.2812° or 32° 16′ 52″ north
Longitude
35.901° or 35° 54′ 4″ east
Population
27,000
Elevation
620 metres (2,034 feet)
Open location code
8G4Q7WJ2+FC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Jerash” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Jerash”
- Albanian: “Xherash”
- Arabic: “جرش”
- Armenian: “Ջարաշ”
- Asturian: “Jerash”
- Basque: “Jerax”
- Belarusian: “Джараш”
- Catalan: “Gerasa”
- Catalan: “Jerash”
- Chinese: “傑拉什”
- Chinese: “杰拉什”
- Czech: “Džaraš”
- Dutch: “Jerash”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جرش”
- Esperanto: “Ĝeraŝ”
- Estonian: “Jarash”
- Estonian: “Jerash”
- Finnish: “Jerash”
- French: “Gérasa”
- French: “Jerash”
- Galician: “Xerasa”
- German: “Gerasa”
- German: “Jarash”
- Greek: “Γέρασα”
- Hebrew: “ג’רש”
- Hebrew: “גרש”
- Hindi: “जेराश”
- Hungarian: “Dzseras”
- Indonesian: “Jerash”
- Italian: “Jerash”
- Japanese: “ジェラシュ”
- Japanese: “ジャラシュ”
- Kazakh: “Джараш қаласы”
- Korean: “제라시”
- Lithuanian: “Džarašas”
- Malay: “Jerash”
- Malayalam: “ജെറാഷ്”
- Mingrelian: “ჯერაში”
- Nepali: “जेरास”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jerash”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jerash”
- Norwegian: “Jerash”
- Persian: “جرش”
- Polish: “Dżarasz”
- Portuguese: “Gérasa”
- Romanian: “Jerash”
- Russian: “Джараш”
- Russian: “Джераш”
- Serbian: “Џераш”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Džeraš”
- Silesian: “Dżarasz”
- Slovenian: “Džeraš”
- Spanish: “Gerasa”
- Spanish: “Jerash”
- Swedish: “Jarash”
- Swedish: “Jerash”
- Tagalog: “Jerash”
- Tajik: “Ҷараш”
- Tatar: “Җараш каласы”
- Thai: “ญะร็อช”
- Turkish: “Ceraş”
- Ukrainian: “Джераш”
- Urdu: “جرش”
- Welsh: “Jerash”
- Western Armenian: “Ժարաշ”
- Western Armenian: “Ճարաշ”
- Western Panjabi: “جرش”
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