Wadi al Midaqq

Wadi al Midaqq is a locality in , . Wadi al Midaqq is situated nearby to the neighborhood , as well as near .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zarqa and Al-Zarqa’a Refugee 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 .

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 4½ km east of Wadi al Midaqq.

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 7 km south of Wadi al Midaqq.

Wadi al Midaqq

Latitude
32.06675° or 32° 4′ 0″ north
Longitude
36.0472° or 36° 2′ 50″ east
Open location code
8G4R328W+MV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 798920696
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to German—“Wadi al Midaqq” goes by many names.

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