Jerash

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Jerash

Coordinates32.28°, 35.90°

Demographic figures from Department of Statistics (Jordan). Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Jerash or Jarash is a city in northern Jordan. The city is the administrative center of the Jerash Governorate, and has a population of 50,745 as of 2015. It is located 30.0 miles north of the capital city Amman.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Hans Fischböck

Austrian banker and Nazi Minister of Finance in Austria following the Anschluss (1895-1967)

Adnan Badran

Jordanian academic and former prime minister

Nicomachus

Greco-Syrian mathematician (c. 60 – c. 120 AD)

Mudar Badran

Jordanian politician (1934–2023)

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Abdullah Aiasra

Jordanian brigadier general (1952–2022)

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Issam Hammad

Palestinian-Jordanian announcer and writer (1925-2006)

Ayman Otoom

Jordanian poet and novelist

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Hussein Mjalli

Jordanian politician and lawyer

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Ali Taha Alnobani

Novelist, poet and civil society and human rights activist from Jordan

Youssef El Outum

Mahmoud Freihat

Jordanian general (born 1960)

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Sura Sabʿ al-ʿAys

Jordanian physician

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Wafa Bani Mustafa

Jordanian lawyer and politician

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Mohammed Farghal

professor of linguistics and translation

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Ariston of Gerasa

ancient rhetorician attested by Stephanus of Byzantium

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Jordan

• Shinabad
  608.5 mi away
• Arkvaz
  625.4 mi away · pop. 11,977
• Eslamabad-e Gharb
  626.9 mi away · pop. 97,000
• Vara
  629.1 mi away
• Tazeh Shahr
  641.3 mi away · pop. 8,629
• Saqqez
  651.9 mi away · pop. 140,000
• Bisotun
  681.8 mi away · pop. 4,942
• Bazargan
  682.8 mi away · pop. 9,000
• Khamaneh
  683.7 mi away · pop. 3,056
• Kuhdasht
  684.2 mi away · pop. 89,091
• Pol Dokhtar
  688.9 mi away · pop. 26,352
• Bonab-e-Jadid
  705.3 mi away · pop. 4,430

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Jerash

Jerash

- · 1997

Jerash (Jordan) - Wink Travel Guide

Wink Travel Wink Travel Guide · 2019

Jerash Archaeological Project, 1981-1983

Fawzi Zayadine · 1986

Jordan: Past and Present

E. Borgia · 2002

Coins from Jerash, 1928-1934

Alfred Raymond Bellinger · 1938

Jerash Archaelogical Project

Fawzi Zayadine · 1986

The architectural elements and decoration at Gerasa (Jerash) during the Roman period

Mohammad Nassar · 2004

Assessment of Environmental and Health Impacts of Water Resources in Jerash Governorate and Jordan

Eham Al-Ajlouni · 2019

Search results from Open Library.