Zarqa
Zarqa is the capital of Zarqa Governorate in Jordan. Its name means "the blue ". It had a population of 635,160 inhabitants in 2015, and is the second most populous city in Jordan after Amman.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 395,000 residents
- Description: city in Jordan
- Also known as: “Al Zarka”, “Al Zarqa”, “Az Zarqā’”, “ez-Zerga”, “Kalaat el Zerka”, and “Qal‘at az Zarqā’”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Al-Zarqa’a Refugee Camp.
Al-Zarqa’a Refugee Camp
Suburb
Zarqa Camp is one of the 10 officially recognized UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. It is located outside of Zarqa. It was the first Palestine refugee camp to be established in Jordan, in 1949, and one of the four camps founded to accommodate the refugees of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight.
Zarqa
- Category: locality
- Location: Zarqa Governorate, Northern Jordan, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.0668° or 32° 4′ 1″ northLongitude
36.0886° or 36° 5′ 19″ eastPopulation
395,000Elevation
625 metres (2,051 feet)IATA airport code
QZAUnited Nations Location Code
JO ZAROpen location code
8G4R338Q+PCOpenStreetMap ID
node 1506264134OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
250090Wikidata ID
Q148062
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Zarqa” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Zarqa”
- Albanian: “Zerka”
- Arabic: “الزرقاء”
- Arabic: “زرقاء”
- Armenian: “Զարկա”
- Asturian: “Zarqa”
- Basque: “Zarqa”
- Belarusian: “Зарка”
- Belarusian: “Эз-Зарка”
- Bengali: “জারকা”
- Bulgarian: “Зарка”
- Catalan: “Zarqa”
- Cebuano: “Zarqa”
- Central Kurdish: “زەرقا”
- Chechen: “Эз-Зарка”
- Chechen: “Эз-Заркъа”
- Chinese: “扎尔卡”
- Chinese: “扎爾卡”
- Czech: “Zarká”
- Danish: “Zarqa”
- Dutch: “Zarka”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الزرقا (الاردن)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الزرقا”
- Esperanto: “Zarkao”
- Finnish: “Al-Zarqa”
- Finnish: “Zarqa”
- French: “Zarka”
- Galician: “Zarqa”
- German: “Zarka”
- German: “Zarqa”
- Greek: “Ζάρκα”
- Gujarati: “ઝારકા”
- Hebrew: “זרקא”
- Hindi: “ज़ारका”
- Hindi: “ज़ार्का”
- Indonesian: “Zarqa”
- Interlingue: “Zarqa”
- Irish: “Zarqa”
- Italian: “Al-Zarqa”
- Italian: “Zarqa”
- Japanese: “ザルカ”
- Kalaallisut: “Zarqa”
- Kannada: “ಝಾರ್ಕಾ”
- Kazakh: “Эз-Зарка қаласы”
- Korean: “자르카”
- Latin: “Zarqa”
- Latvian: “Zarka”
- Lithuanian: “Zarka”
- Malay: “Zarqa”
- Malayalam: “സർഖ”
- Marathi: “जर्का”
- Mazanderani: “زرقا”
- Mingrelian: “ეზ-ზარქა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zarqa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zarqa”
- Norwegian: “Zarqa”
- Ossetian: “Эз-Зарка”
- Persian: “زرقا”
- Persian: “زرقاء”
- Polish: “Az-Zarka”
- Polish: “Zarka”
- Portuguese: “Zarqa”
- Romanian: “Zarqa”
- Russian: “Эз-Зарка”
- Scots: “Zarqa”
- Sinhala: “සර්කා”
- Slovenian: “Zarqa”
- Spanish: “Zarqa”
- Swedish: “al-Zarqa”
- Swedish: “az-Zarqa”
- Swedish: “Az-Zarqa”
- Swedish: “Zarqa”
- Tamil: “ஜர்கா”
- Telugu: “జార్క”
- Thai: “อัซซัรกออ์”
- Turkish: “Zerka”
- Ukrainian: “Ез-Зарка”
- Ukrainian: “Зарка”
- Urdu: “زرقاء”
- Vietnamese: “Zarqa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Zarqa”
- Welsh: “Az-Zarqa”
- Welsh: “Zarca”
- Welsh: “Zarka”
- Welsh: “Zarqa”
- Western Panjabi: “زرقا”
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