Um er-Rasas
Umm ar-Rasas is located 30 km southeast of Madaba in the Amman Governorate in central Jordan. It was once accessible by branches of the King's Highway, and is situated in the semi-arid steppe region of the Jordanian Desert.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: Jordanian archeological site
- Also known as: “Kastron Mefa’a”, “Um el Resas”, “Um er Rişāş”, “Umm ar Rasas”, “Umm ar Raşāş”, “Umm ar-Rasas”, and “Umm er Riṣāṣ”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kastron Mefaa.
Kastron Mefaa
Archaeological site
Photo: Carole Raddato, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kastron Mefaa is an archaeological site.
Um er-Rasas
- Categories: archaeological site, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Amman Governorate, King’s Highway, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.5054° or 31° 30′ 19″ northLongitude
35.921° or 35° 55′ 16″ eastElevation
744 metres (2,441 feet)Open location code
8G3QGW4C+59OpenStreetMap ID
way 82908941OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
246330Wikidata ID
Q822842
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Um er-Rasas” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أم الرصاص”
- Arabic: “ام الرصاص”
- Arabic: “جحفية”
- Armenian: “Ում էլ-Ռասաս”
- Basque: “Umm ar-Rasas”
- Bulgarian: “Ум ер-Расас”
- Catalan: “Um er-Rasas”
- Chinese: “乌姆赖萨斯”
- Chinese: “烏姆賴薩斯”
- Croatian: “Um er-Rasas”
- Czech: “Kastron Mefa’a”
- Czech: “Umm ar-Rasas”
- Czech: “Umm er-Rasas”
- Dutch: “Kastrom Mefa’a”
- Dutch: “Um er-Rasas”
- Finnish: “Um er-Rasas”
- French: “Kastrom Mefa’a”
- French: “Um Al-Rasas”
- French: “Um er-Rasas”
- Galician: “Umm ar-Rasas”
- Georgian: “უმ არ რასასი”
- Georgian: “უმ-არ-რასასი”
- German: “Kastron Mefa’a”
- German: “Um er-Rasas”
- German: “Umm er Rasas”
- German: “Umm er-Rasas”
- Greek: “Ουμ αλ Ρασας”
- Greek: “Ουμ αρ Ρασας”
- Greek: “Ουμ ερ-Ρασάς”
- Hebrew: “אום א-רסאס”
- Hindi: “उम्म अर-रास”
- Indonesian: “Umm ar-Rasas”
- Italian: “Kastrom Mefa’a”
- Italian: “Um er-Rasas”
- Italian: “Umm al-Rasas”
- Japanese: “ウム・アル=ラサス”
- Japanese: “ウム・アル＝ラサス”
- Japanese: “ウム・エル＝ラサス（キャストロ・メファ）”
- Lithuanian: “Um ar Rasas”
- Macedonian: “Ум Ар-Расас”
- Maltese: “Kastron Mefa’a”
- Maltese: “Um er-Rasas”
- Mongolian: “Ум эр-Расас”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Umm er-Rasas”
- Norwegian: “Umm er-Rasas”
- Persian: “ام ارصاص”
- Persian: “ام الرصاص”
- Persian: “امالرصاص”
- Polish: “Umm ar-Rasas”
- Polish: “Umm er-Rasas”
- Portuguese: “Um er-Rasas”
- Portuguese: “Umer Rasas”
- Romanian: “Kastron Mefa’a”
- Romanian: “Umm al Rassas”
- Romanian: “Umm ar-Rasas”
- Russian: “Ум-эр-Расас”
- Russian: “Умм-эр-Расас”
- Serbian: “Ум ер-Расас”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Um er-Rasas”
- Slovenian: “Umm ar-Rasas”
- Spanish: “Kastrom Mefa’a”
- Spanish: “Um er Rasas”
- Spanish: “Um er-Rasas”
- Spanish: “Umm al Rassas”
- Spanish: “Umm ar Rasas”
- Spanish: “Umm er Rasas”
- Spanish: “Umm er-Rasas”
- Swedish: “Kastrom Mefa’a”
- Swedish: “Kastron Mefa’a”
- Swedish: “Um er-Rasas”
- Tatar: “Умм-әр-Расас археологик аланы”
- Turkish: “Umm ar-Rasas”
- Ukrainian: “Ум-ер-Расас”
- Ukrainian: “Умм-ер-Расас”
- Urdu: “ام الرصاص”
- Vietnamese: “Um er-Rasas”
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