Souf

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Souf

Coordinates32.31°, 35.84°

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

Overview

Souf (سوف) is a town in Jerash Governorate, Jordan, set over a series of mountains at an altitude of 1,000 meters. Souf is situated 35 miles north of Amman, the capital of Jordan. The total population of Souf exceeds 14,000 people, while it covers a wide area of agricultural land, considered the widest in Jerash.

Geography

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

Wildlife & biodiversity

Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Earthquake history

Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).

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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Ra'ed Al-Nawateer

football player

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Abdullah Aiasra

Jordanian brigadier general (1952–2022)

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Issam Hammad

Palestinian-Jordanian announcer and writer (1925-2006)

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Wajih Owais

Jordanian molecular biologist and politician

Ayman Otoom

Jordanian poet and novelist

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Ismāʻīl ibn Muḥammad al-ʻAjlūnī

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Hussein Mjalli

Jordanian politician and lawyer

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Ramzī Ghazwī

Jordanian writer

Saba Mubarak

Jordanian actress

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Ali Taha Alnobani

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

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Noah ALI Salman Al-Qudah

Jordanian muslim scholar

Youssef El Outum

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

Geography & sun

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

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.