Petra, carved into sandstone by the Nabataeans, was lost to the outside world for over a thousand years.
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Jordan
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan ยท ุงูุฃุฑุฏู
Asia
ยท Western Asia
0Population
89.34Kkmยฒ of land
$4.41KGDP / person
AmmanCapital
- ISO codes
- JO ยท JOR
- Density
- 113 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Arabic
- Currency
- Jordanian dinar (JOD)
- Dial code
- +962
- Internet domain
- .jo
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 30.8050ยฐ N, 36.3760ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Jordanian
- UN region
- Western Asia
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $44.5B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 5
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By the numbers
How Jordan stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
90th
of 242 ยท 0.13% of world population
Land area
113th
of 242 ยท 0.06% of world land
GDP per person
153rd
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
92nd
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Jordan
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 10,101,694 people, the 90th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.13 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 89,342 kmยฒ, making it the 113th largest country here - about 9.7 times the size of Cyprus.
Population density is about 113 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Amman, at 31.95ยฐ N, 35.93ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 1,060,000.
Shares land borders with 4 countries: Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Syria.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Amman.
The currency is the Jordanian dinar (JOD, symbol ุฏ.ุง).
The official language is Arabic.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Amman
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UTC+03:00
Cities
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Amman
Amman
31.9520ยฐ N, 35.9314ยฐ E
1.06M
๐งญ Worth the trip
Petra
Ancient
A Nabataean trading capital carved directly into rose-red sandstone cliffs and reached through a 1.2 km slot canyon.
Wadi Rum
Desert
The Valley of the Moon - sandstone islands in red sand, and the stand-in for Mars in a dozen films.
Land neighbours
4 countries share a border with Jordan.