Ar-Riyāḍ

Ar-Riyāḍ is a village in , and has about 968 residents. Ar-Riyāḍ is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zarqa and Marka camp.

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is the capital of in . Its name means "the blue ". It had a population of 635,160 inhabitants in 2015, and is the second most populous city in Jordan after .

Neighborhood
The Marka refugee camp is one of six emergency camps erected in 1968 to shelter 15,000 Palestinian refugees fleeing the and the due to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. is situated 10 km south of Ar-Riyāḍ.

Suburb
Zarqa Camp is one of the 10 officially recognized UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in . It is located outside of . It was the first Palestine refugee camp to be established in Jordan, in 1949, and one of the four camps founded to accommodate the refugees of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight. is situated 10 km southeast of Ar-Riyāḍ.

Ar-Riyāḍ

Latitude
32.09301° or 32° 5′ 35″ north
Longitude
35.99533° or 35° 59′ 43″ east
Population
968
Open location code
8G4Q3XVW+64
Open­Street­Map ID
node 10069198749
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
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