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Aqaba

Wadi Rum

Wadi Rum is a spectacularly scenic desert valley in southern . It is also known as "Valley of the Moon" and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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  • Type: Protected area
  • Description: valley in southern Jordan
  • Also known as: “The Valley of the Moon” and “Wadi Rum Protected Area”

Wadi Rum

Latitude
29.5112° or 29° 30′ 40″ north
Longitude
35.3957° or 35° 23′ 45″ east
Elevation
929 metres (3,048 feet)
Open location code
7GXQG96W+F7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 243200322
Geo­Names ID
7874148
Wiki­data ID
Q40729
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Wadi Rum” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “محمية وادي رم”
  • Arabic: “محمية وادي روم”
  • Arabic: “وادي رم”
  • Armenian: “Վադի Ռամ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vadi Ram”
  • Basque: “Wadi Rum”
  • Bengali: “ওয়াদি রাম”
  • Bosnian: “Wadi Rum”
  • Bulgarian: “Лунната долина”
  • Bulgarian: “Уади Рам”
  • Catalan: “Wadi Rum”
  • Chinese: “拉姆乾谷”
  • Chinese: “拉姆干谷”
  • Chinese: “瓦地倫”
  • Chinese: “瓦迪拉姆”
  • Croatian: “Wadi Rum”
  • Czech: “součást Světového dědictví UNESCO”
  • Czech: “Vádí Rum”
  • Dutch: “Wadi Rum”
  • Finnish: “Wadi Rum”
  • French: “aire protégée du Wadi Rum”
  • French: “Aire protégée du Wadi Rum”
  • French: “Wadi Ramm”
  • French: “Wadi Rum”
  • French: “zone protégée du Wadi Rum”
  • Galician: “Wadi Rum”
  • Georgian: “უადი რუმი”
  • Georgian: “უადი-რუმი”
  • German: “Wadi Ram”
  • German: “Wadi Rum”
  • Greek: “Ουάντι Ραμ”
  • Hebrew: “ואדי ראם”
  • Hebrew: “ואדי רם”
  • Hindi: “वादी रम”
  • Hungarian: “Rum vádi”
  • Indonesian: “Wadi Rum”
  • Italian: “Uadi Rum”
  • Italian: “Wadi Rum”
  • Japanese: “ワディ・ラム”
  • Kazakh: “Вади Рам”
  • Korean: “달의 계곡”
  • Korean: “와디람”
  • Korean: “와디럼”
  • Lithuanian: “Vadi Rumas”
  • Malay: “Wadi Rum”
  • Malayalam: “വാദി റം”
  • Maltese: “Wadi Rum”
  • Maltese: “Wied il-Qamar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wadi Rum”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wadi Rum”
  • Norwegian: “Wadi Rum”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Wadi Rum”
  • Persian: “وادی رم”
  • Polish: “Wadi Ramm”
  • Polish: “Wadi Rum”
  • Portuguese: “Uádi de Rum”
  • Portuguese: “Wadi Rum”
  • Romanian: “Wadi Rum”
  • Russian: “Вади-Рам”
  • Serbian: “Вади Рум”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wadi Rum”
  • Slovenian: “Vadi Rum”
  • Slovenian: “Wadi Rum”
  • Spanish: “Uadi Rum”
  • Spanish: “Wadi Rum”
  • Swedish: “Wadi Rum”
  • Tatar: “Вади-Рум чүл тыюлыгы”
  • Thai: “วาดีรุม”
  • Turkish: “Rum Vadisi Koruma Alanı”
  • Ukrainian: “Ваді-ель-Камр”
  • Ukrainian: “Ваді-Рам”
  • Ukrainian: “Ваді-Рум”
  • Ukrainian: “Місячна долина”
  • Urdu: “وادی رم”
  • Uzbek: “Vadi-Ram”
  • Vietnamese: “Wadi Rum”
  • Welsh: “Wadi Ramm”
  • Welsh: “Wadi Rum”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Wadi Rum”. Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.