Madaba
Madaba is a small town in central Jordan located south of the capital Amman on the King's Highway, some 10 km from Hesban.
- Type: City with 65,000 residents
- Description: city in Madaba Governorate, Jordan
- Also known as: “Ma’dabā”, “Mādeba”, “Meidevā”, “Медва”, “מדאבה”, “מדבא”, “מהדבא”, “مدينة مأدبا”, “مدينة مادبا”, and “馬德巴”
Madaba
- Category: locality
- Location: Madaba Governorate, King’s Highway, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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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)
UN/LOCODE
JO QMD
Open location code
8G3QPQ8V+JQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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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”
- Armenian: “Մադաբա”
- Asturian: “Madaba”
- Basque: “Madaba”
- Belarusian: “Мадаба”
- Bulgarian: “Мадаба”
- Catalan: “Madaba”
- Cebuano: “Mādabā”
- Chinese: “米底巴”
- Czech: “Madaba”
- Czech: “Mádabá”
- Dutch: “Madaba”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مادبا”
- Esperanto: “Madaba”
- Finnish: “Madaba”
- French: “Madaba”
- German: “Madaba”
- Greek: “Μάνταμπα”
- 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”
- Slovenian: “Madaba”
- Spanish: “Madaba”
- Swedish: “Madaba”
- Tajik: “Мадаба”
- Thai: “มาดะบา”
- Turkish: “Medeba”
- Ukrainian: “Мадаба”
- Urdu: “مادبا”
- Western Panjabi: “مادابا”
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