Zarqa

Zarqa is the capital of in . 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 .
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  • City with about 481,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 620 metres (2,030 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code QZA
  • Description: city in Jordan
  • Also known as
    “Al Zarka”
    “Al Zarqa”
    “Az Zarqā’”
    “ez-Zerga”
    “Kalaat el Zerka”
    “Qal‘at az Zarqā’”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Al-Zarqa’a Refugee Camp.
Suburb
Zarqa Camp is one of the 10 officially recognized UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in .

Zarqa

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Latitude
32.0668° or 32° 4′ 1″ north
Longitude
36.0886° or 36° 5′ 19″ east
UN/LOCODE
JO ZAR
Open location code
8G4R338Q+PC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1506264134
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
250090
Wiki­data ID
Q148062

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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: “ज़ार्का”
  • Indonesian: “Zarqa”
  • Interlingue: “Zarqa”
  • Irish: “Zarqa”
  • Italian: “Al-Zarqa”
  • Italian: “Zarqa”
  • Japanese: “ザルカ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Zarqa”
  • Kannada: “ಝಾರ್ಕಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಸಾರ್ಕ”
  • 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: “Zarqa”
  • Tajik: “Зарқо”
  • Tamil: “ஜர்கா”
  • Telugu: “జార్క”
  • Thai: “อัซซัรกออ์”
  • Turkish: “Zerka”
  • Ukrainian: “Ез-Зарка”
  • Ukrainian: “Зарка”
  • Urdu: “زرقاء”
  • Uzbek: “Az-Zarqa”
  • Vietnamese: “Zarqa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Zarqa”
  • Welsh: “Az-Zarqa”
  • Welsh: “Zarca”
  • Welsh: “Zarka”
  • Welsh: “Zarqa”
  • Western Panjabi: “زرقا”

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