Salt
As-Salt, also known as Salt, is an ancient trading city and administrative centre in west-central Jordan. It is on the old main highway leading from Amman to Jerusalem.
- Type: City with 108,000 residents
- Description: city in Jordan
- Also known as: “Al Salt”, “al-Salt”, “As-Salt”, “Es Salt”, “Rāmoth Gil‘ād”, “Ramoth Gilad”, “Saltus”, “Ας Σαλτ”, “Ал Салт”, “Ес-Сальт”, “א-סלט”, “அல் - சால்ட்”, and “阿爾薩特”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Wadi Shuʿeib and Salt Archaeological Museum.
Salt
- Categories: archaeological site and locality
- Location: Balqa Governorate, Northern Jordan, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.0391° or 32° 2′ 21″ north
Longitude
35.727° or 35° 43′ 37″ east
Population
108,000
Elevation
816 metres (2,677 feet)
Open location code
8G4Q2PQG+JQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Salt” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Al-Salt”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σάλτος”
- Arabic: “السلط”
- Armenian: “Աս-Սալթ”
- Asturian: “Salt”
- Belarusian: “Эс-Салт”
- Bulgarian: “Салт”
- Catalan: “Al-Salt”
- Cebuano: “As Salţ”
- Chinese: “薩爾特”
- Croatian: “Al-Salt”
- Czech: “Salt”
- Dutch: “Salt”
- Egyptian Arabic: “السلط”
- Finnish: “Al-Salt”
- French: “Salt”
- Galician: “Al-Salt”
- German: “Salt”
- Greek: “Ας-Σαλτ”
- Greek: “Σαλτ”
- Hausa: “Al-Salt”
- Hebrew: “סלט”
- Indonesian: “Al-Salt”
- Italian: “Al-Salt”
- Japanese: “サルト”
- Kazakh: “As-Salʹt qalası”
- Kazakh: “Ас-Сальт қаласы”
- Kazakh: “اس-سالت قالاسى”
- Korean: “살트”
- Lithuanian: “Saltas”
- Malay: “Al-Salt”
- Maltese: “As-Salt”
- Mazanderani: “السلط”
- Mingrelian: “ეს-სალტი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “As-Salt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “As-Salt”
- Norwegian: “As-Salt”
- Persian: “السلط”
- Persian: “سلط”
- Polish: “As-Salt”
- Portuguese: “Salt”
- Romanian: “Salt, Iordania”
- Russian: “Ас-Сальт”
- Russian: “Эс-Салт”
- Scots: “Salt, Jordan”
- Scots: “Salt”
- Serbo-Croatian: “As-Salt”
- Spanish: “As Salt”
- Spanish: “As-Salt”
- Swedish: “as-Salt”
- Swedish: “As-Salt”
- Tamil: “அல் - சால்ட் நகரம், ஜோர்தான்”
- Tamil: “சால்ட்”
- Tatar: “Әс-Салт каласы”
- Thai: “อัสซัลฏ์”
- Turkish: “Es-Salt”
- Ukrainian: “Ес-Салт”
- Urdu: “سلط”
- Vietnamese: “Al-Salt”
- Western Panjabi: “السلط”
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