Jordan
Southern Desert
Ma’an Governorate

Petra

Petra, the fabled "rose red city, half as old as time", is a well known ancient Nabataean city in the south of . Due to its breathtaking grandeur and fabulous ruins, Petra was recognised as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985.
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: ancient rock-cut historical city in Jordan
  • Also known as: “Al Batrā’”, “Baţrā’”, “Petra, Jordan”, and “Raqmu”
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include The Treasury (Al-Khazneh) and Vaux Moise.

Photo: Graham Racher, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Al-Khazneh, also known as Khazneh el-Far'oun, is one of the most elaborate rock-cut tombs in Petra, a city of the Nabatean Kingdom inhabited by the Arabs in ancient times.

Castle
Wu'ayra Castle is a ruined Crusader castle located in , , 1 kilometre north of the main entrance to Petra. It was founded by Baldwin I of Jerusalem as an outpost of the larger Montreal Castle, which stands about 34 kilometres north of it at .

Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a Nabataean tomb in the Petra Archaeological Park. It is situated among the Royal Tombs, a line of prominent monumental facades on the east cliffs flanking the valley in which the city lies.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Petra.

Town
Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wadi Musa is a town located in the in southern . It is the administrative center of the Department and the nearest town to the archaeological site of , being only 3.5 km away.

Petra

Latitude
30.3258° or 30° 19′ 33″ north
Longitude
35.4746° or 35° 28′ 28″ east
Elevation
879 metres (2,884 feet)
Open location code
8G2Q8FGF+8R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7549551054
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
250745
Wiki­data ID
Q5788
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Petra” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Petra”
  • Albanian: “Petra”
  • Amharic: “ጴጥራ”
  • Arabic: “البترا”
  • Arabic: “البتراء”
  • Arabic: “المدينة الوردية”
  • Arabic: “بتراء”
  • Arabic: “تاريخ البتراء”
  • Arabic: “تحرير البتراء (الأردن)”
  • Armenian: “Պետրա”
  • Asturian: “Petra”
  • Azerbaijani: “Petra”
  • Balinese: “Pétra”
  • Bashkir: “Петра”
  • Basque: “Petra”
  • Belarusian: “Петра”
  • Belarusian: “Пэтра”
  • Bengali: “পেত্রা”
  • Bosnian: “Petra”
  • Bulgarian: “Петра”
  • Burmese: “ပီထရာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Petra d’Aràbia”
  • Catalan: “Petra dAràbia”
  • Central Kurdish: “پێترا”
  • Chinese: “佩特拉”
  • Croatian: “Petra”
  • Czech: “Petra”
  • Danish: “Petra”
  • Dhivehi: “ޕެޓްރާ”
  • Dutch: “Petra”
  • Dutch: “Raqmu”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيترا”
  • Esperanto: “Petra”
  • Estonian: “Petra”
  • Finnish: “Petra”
  • French: “Pétra”
  • Galician: “Petra”
  • Georgian: “პეტრა”
  • German: “Petra”
  • Greek: “Πέτρα Ιορδανίας”
  • Greek: “Πέτρα”
  • Gujarati: “પેટ્રા”
  • Hebrew: “פטרה”
  • Hindi: “पेत्रा”
  • Hungarian: “Petra”
  • Icelandic: “Petra”
  • Ido: “Petra (Jordania)”
  • Ido: “Petra”
  • Indonesian: “Petra, Yordania”
  • Indonesian: “Petra”
  • Indonesian: “Raqmu”
  • Interlingua: “Petra (Jordania)”
  • Interlingua: “Petra”
  • Irish: “Petra”
  • Italian: “Petra”
  • Italian: “Raqmu”
  • Italian: “Reqem”
  • Japanese: “ペトラ”
  • Javanese: “Petra”
  • Kabiyè: “Peetiraa”
  • Kannada: “ಪೆಟ್ರಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Петра”
  • Korean: “페트라”
  • Kurdish: “Petra”
  • Latin: “Petra (Iordania)”
  • Latin: “Petra”
  • Latvian: “Petra”
  • Limburgan: “Petra”
  • Lithuanian: “Petra”
  • Luxembourgish: “Petra”
  • Macedonian: “Петра”
  • Malay: “Petra”
  • Malayalam: “പെട്ര”
  • Maltese: “Petra”
  • Maltese: “Raqmu”
  • Marathi: “पेट्रा”
  • Mingrelian: “პეტრა”
  • Moksha: “Пэтра”
  • Mongolian: “Петра”
  • Nepali: “पेत्रा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Petra”
  • Norwegian: “Petra”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Petra”
  • Ossetian: “Петрæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੇਤਰਾ”
  • Persian: “پترا”
  • Polish: “Petra”
  • Portuguese: “Petra”
  • Pushto: “پټرا”
  • Quechua: “Petra”
  • Romanian: “Petra”
  • Russian: “Петра”
  • Scots: “Petra”
  • Serbian: “Petra”
  • Serbian: “Петра”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Petra”
  • Sicilian: “Petra”
  • Slovak: “Petra”
  • Slovenian: “Petra”
  • Somali: “Petra-Nabataean”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پترا”
  • Spanish: “Al-Batrā”
  • Spanish: “Petra”
  • Spanish: “Raqmu”
  • Spanish: “Rekem”
  • Swedish: “Petra”
  • Tagalog: “Petra”
  • Tamil: “பெட்ரா”
  • Tatar: “Петра борынгы каласы”
  • Telugu: “పెట్రా”
  • Thai: “นครเปตรา”
  • Thai: “เปตรา”
  • Turkish: “Petra”
  • Ukrainian: “Петра”
  • Urdu: “بترا”
  • Uzbek: “Petra”
  • Vietnamese: “Petra”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Petra”
  • Welsh: “Petra”
  • Western Armenian: “Փեթրա”
  • Wu Chinese: “佩特拉”
  • Yue Chinese: “佩特拉”
  • Zeeuws: “Petra”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Petra”. Photo: Faraheed, CC BY-SA 3.0.