Urqub Qaraqash
Urqub Qaraqash is a peak in Zarqa Governorate, Jordan. Urqub Qaraqash is situated nearby to the neighborhood الدويك, as well as near مكة المكرمة.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zarqa and Al-Zarqa’a Refugee Camp.
Zarqa
Photo: Yazan4HD, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Zarqa is the capital of Zarqa Governorate in Jordan. 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 Amman.
Al-Zarqa’a Refugee Camp
Suburb
Zarqa Camp is one of the 10 officially recognized UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. It is located outside of Zarqa. 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.
Marka camp
Neighborhood
The Marka refugee camp is one of six emergency camps erected in 1968 to shelter 15,000 Palestinian refugees fleeing the West Bank and the Gaza Strip due to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
Urqub Qaraqash
- Type: Peak
- Also known as: “‘Urqūb Qaraqash”
- Category: landform
- Location: Zarqa Governorate, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.05° or 32° 3′ northLongitude
36.05° or 36° 3′ eastOpen location code
8G4R23X2+X2OpenStreetMap ID
node 798920711OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to German—“Urqub Qaraqash” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “عرقوب قرقش”
- French: “Urqub Qaraqash”
- German: “Urqub Qaraqash”
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