Salt

As-Salt, also known as Salt, is an ancient trading city and administrative centre in west-central . It is on the old main highway leading from to .
  • City with about 108,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 820 metres (2,690 feet)
  • Description: city in Jordan
  • Also known as
    “Al Salt”
    “As-Salt”
    “Es Salt”
    “Rāmoth Gil‘ād”
    “Saltus”

Places of Interest

Discover Wadi Shuʿeib and Salt Archaeological Museum.
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Latitude
32.0391° or 32° 2′ 21″ north
Longitude
35.727° or 35° 43′ 37″ east
Open location code
8G4Q2PQG+JQ
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Open­Street­Map feature
place = city
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Salt” goes by many names.
Al-SaltAlbanian
ΣάλτοςAncient Greek (to 1453)
السلطArabic
سلطArabic
Աս-ՍալթArmenian
SaltAsturian
СалтBelarusian
Эс-СалтBelarusian
Ал СалтBulgarian
СалтBulgarian
Al-SaltCatalan
As SalţCebuano
薩爾特Chinese
阿爾薩特Chinese
Al-SaltCroatian
SaltCzech
As-SaltDutch
Es-SaltDutch
SaltDutch
السلطEgyptian Arabic
Al-SaltFinnish
Al-SaltGalician
Ας-ΣαλτGreek
ΣαλτGreek
ΣάλτοςGreek
Al-SaltHausa
א-סלטHebrew
סלטHebrew
Al-SaltIndonesian
Al-SaltItalian
As-SaltItalian
サルトJapanese
As-Salʹt qalasıKazakh
Ас-Сальт қаласыKazakh
اس-سالت قالاسىKazakh
살트Korean
SaltasLithuanian
Al-SaltMalay
As-SaltMaltese
SaltMaltese
السلطMazanderani
ეს-სალტიMingrelian
As-SaltNorwegian
Al SaltNorwegian Bokmål
As-SaltNorwegian Bokmål
As-SaltNorwegian Nynorsk
السلطPersian
سلطPersian
As-SaltPolish
Salt, IordaniaRomanian
Ас-СальтRussian
Эс-СалтRussian
SaltScots
Salt, JordanScots
As-SaltSerbo-Croatian
al-SaltSwedish
As-SaltSwedish
SaltSwedish
அல் - சால்ட்Tamil
அல் - சால்ட் நகரம், ஜோர்தான்Tamil
சால்ட்Tamil
Әс-Салт каласыTatar
อัสซัลฏ์Thai
Es-SaltTurkish
Ес-СалтUkrainian
Ес-СальтUkrainian
سلطUrdu
Al-SaltVietnamese
السلطWestern Panjabi

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