Madaba

Madaba is a small town in central located south of the capital on the King's Highway, some 10 km from Hesban.
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  • Type: City with 65,000 residents
  • Description: city in Madaba Governorate, Jordan
  • Also known as: Ma’dabā”, “Mādeba”, and “Meidevā

Madaba

Latitude
31.7166° or 31° 42′ 60″ north
Longitude
35.7944° or 35° 47′ 40″ east
Population
65,000
Elevation
790 metres (2,592 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JO QMD
Open location code
8G3QPQ8V+JQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 799097498
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
248370
Wiki­data ID
Q1683958
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Madaba” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: Madaba
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): Μαιδαβά
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): Μήδαβα
  • Arabic: مأدبا
  • Arabic: مادبا
  • Arabic: محافظة مادبا
  • Arabic: مدينة مأدبا
  • Arabic: مدينة مادبا
  • Armenian: Մադաբա
  • Asturian: Madaba
  • Basque: Madaba
  • Belarusian: Мадаба
  • Bulgarian: Мадаба
  • Catalan: Madaba
  • Cebuano: Mādabā
  • Chinese: 米底巴
  • Chinese: 馬德巴
  • Czech: Madaba
  • Czech: Mádabá
  • Dutch: Madaba
  • Egyptian Arabic: مادبا
  • Esperanto: Madaba
  • Finnish: Madaba
  • French: Madaba
  • German: Madaba
  • Greek: Μάνταμπα
  • Greek: Μήδαβα
  • Hebrew: מדאבה
  • Hebrew: מדבא
  • Hebrew: מהדבא
  • Hebrew: מידבא
  • Hindi: मदाबा
  • Hungarian: Madaba
  • Indonesian: Medeba
  • Italian: Madaba
  • Japanese: マダバ
  • Korean: 마다바
  • Lithuanian: Madaba
  • Maithili: मदाबा
  • Malay: Madaba
  • Maltese: Madaba
  • Mazanderani: مادبا
  • Mingrelian: მადაბა
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Madaba
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Madaba
  • Norwegian: Madaba
  • Persian: مادبا
  • Polish: Madaba
  • Portuguese: Madaba
  • Romanian: Madaba
  • Russian: Мадаба
  • Russian: Медва
  • Slovenian: Madaba
  • Spanish: Madaba
  • Swedish: Madaba
  • Swedish: Mādabā
  • Thai: มาดะบา
  • Turkish: Medeba
  • Ukrainian: Мадаба
  • Ukrainian: Медва
  • Urdu: مادبا
  • Western Panjabi: مادابا

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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 “Madaba”. Photo: Ceever, CC BY-SA 4.0.