Umm Qais

Umm Qais, also known as Qays, is a town in northern principally known for its proximity to the ruins of the ancient . It is the largest city in the Bani Kinanah Department and in the extreme northwest of the country, near Jordan's borders with and .
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  • Type: Village with 4,290 residents
  • Description: town in Jordan
  • Also known as: “Gadara”, “Gādēr”, “Mukes”, “Mukus”, “Qays”, “Um Qeis”, “Umm Qays”, and “Umm Qeis”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gadara and Umm Qais Museum.

Photo: Thilver, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, in some texts Gedaris, was an ancient Hellenistic city in what is now , for a long time member of the Decapolis city league, a former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see.

Museum
The is museum in , Jordan. The museum is dedicated to exhibiting and conserving artifacts from the archeological site of Umm Qais.

Theater building
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.
is a theater building.

Umm Qais

Latitude
32.654° or 32° 39′ 15″ north
Longitude
35.6845° or 35° 41′ 4″ east
Population
4,290
Elevation
348 metres (1,142 feet)
Open location code
8G4QMM3M+JQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7058592385
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
246202
Wiki­data ID
Q131955
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Umm Qais” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Umm Qais”
  • Arabic: “أم قيس”
  • Asturian: “Umm Qais”
  • Basque: “Umm Qais”
  • Catalan: “Umm Qais”
  • Cebuano: “Umm Qays”
  • Chinese: “烏姆蓋斯”
  • Dutch: “Umm Qais”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ام قيس”
  • French: “Umm Qais”
  • French: “Umm Qeis”
  • German: “Umm Qais”
  • Greek: “Γάδαρα”
  • Hebrew: “אום-קיס”
  • Hebrew: “אוֹם-קיס”
  • Hebrew: “אוֹם-קַיְס”
  • Hungarian: “Umm Kajsz”
  • Indonesian: “Umm Qais”
  • Italian: “Umm Qais”
  • Japanese: “ウム・カイス”
  • Japanese: “ウム・クァイス”
  • Japanese: “ウンム・カイス”
  • Japanese: “ガダラ”
  • Latin: “Umm Qais”
  • Lithuanian: “Um Kaisas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Umm Qais”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Umm Qais”
  • Norwegian: “Umm Qais”
  • Persian: “ام قیس”
  • Polish: “Umm Qais”
  • Portuguese: “Umm Qais”
  • Romanian: “Umm Qais”
  • Russian: “Умм Кайс”
  • Slovenian: “Umm Qais”
  • Spanish: “Antiochia”
  • Spanish: “Umm Qais”
  • Swedish: “Umm Qais”
  • Turkish: “Ümmü Kays”
  • Ukrainian: “Умм-Каїс”
  • Ukrainian: “Умм-Кайс”
  • Urdu: “ام قیس”
  • Vietnamese: “Umm Qais”

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