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 .
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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 Salt Archaeological Museum.

Peak
Photo: Adeeb Atwan, CC BY 3.0.
Wadi Shueib, Arabic for the Valley of Jethro and properly but with many variant romanisations, is a in . 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 .

Museum
Photo: Tarawneh, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Mosque
Photo: Freedom’s Falcon, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Salt

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
node 802856870
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
250258
Wiki­data 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”
  • Armenian: “Աս-Սալթ”
  • 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”
  • Galician: “Al-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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