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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 108,000 residents
- Description: city in Jordan
- Also known as: “Al Salt”, “As Salt”, “As-Salt”, “Es Salt”, “Rāmoth Gil‘ād”, “Ramoth Gilad”, and “Saltus”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wadi Shuʿeib and As-Salt Museum.
Wadi Shuʿeib
Peak
Photo: Adeeb Atwan, CC BY 3.0.
Wadi Shueib, Arabic for the Valley of Jethro and properly Wadi Shuʿeib but with many variant romanisations, is a wadi in Jordan. The alluvial fan of the wadi where it enters the southern part of the eastern Jordan Valley is known as Wadi Nimrin, which leads into the Jordan River.
Salt
- Categories: archaeological site and locality
- Location: Balqa Governorate, Northern Jordan, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.0391° or 32° 2′ 21″ northLongitude
35.727° or 35° 43′ 37″ eastPopulation
108,000Elevation
816 metres (2,677 feet)Open location code
8G4Q2PQG+JQOpenStreetMap ID
node 802856870OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
250258Wikidata ID
Q867586
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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”
- Arabic: “سلط”
- Asturian: “Salt”
- Belarusian: “Салт”
- Belarusian: “Эс-Салт”
- Bulgarian: “Ал Салт”
- Bulgarian: “Салт”
- Catalan: “Al-Salt”
- Cebuano: “As Salţ”
- Chinese: “薩爾特”
- Chinese: “阿爾薩特”
- Croatian: “Al-Salt”
- Czech: “Salt”
- Dutch: “As-Salt”
- Dutch: “Es-Salt”
- Dutch: “Salt”
- Egyptian Arabic: “السلط”
- Finnish: “Al-Salt”
- French: “Salt”
- German: “Salt”
- Greek: “Ας Σαλτ”
- Greek: “Ας-Σαλτ”
- Greek: “Σαλτ”
- Greek: “Σάλτος”
- Hausa: “Al-Salt”
- Hebrew: “א-סלט”
- Hebrew: “סלט”
- Indonesian: “Al-Salt”
- Italian: “Al-Salt”
- Italian: “As-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”
- Maltese: “As-Salt”
- Maltese: “Salt”
- Mazanderani: “السلط”
- Mingrelian: “ეს-სალტი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Al Salt”
- 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: “al-Salt”
- Swedish: “as-Salt”
- Swedish: “As-Salt”
- Swedish: “Salt”
- Tamil: “அல் - சால்ட் நகரம், ஜோர்தான்”
- Tamil: “அல் - சால்ட்”
- Tamil: “சால்ட்”
- Tatar: “Әс-Салт каласы”
- Thai: “อัสซัลฏ์”
- Turkish: “Es-Salt”
- Ukrainian: “Ес-Салт”
- Ukrainian: “Ес-Сальт”
- Urdu: “سلط”
- Vietnamese: “Al-Salt”
- Western Panjabi: “السلط”
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