Khirbat al Rusayfah

Khirbat al Rusayfah is a neighborhood in , . Khirbat al Rusayfah is situated nearby to the neighborhood , as well as near .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Marka camp and Al-Zarqa’a Refugee Camp.

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.

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 8 km northeast of Khirbat al Rusayfah.

Photo: Yazan4HD, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 .

Khirbat al Rusayfah

Latitude
32.01667° or 32° 1′ north
Longitude
36.01667° or 36° 1′ east
Open location code
8G4R2288+MM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 802869965
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to German—“Khirbat al Rusayfah” goes by many names.

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Hay Al Rasheed and Wadi Zarbi.

Notable Places Nearby

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