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Jordan (nation)
Coordinates:
Lat: 31 00 00 N degrees minutes Lat: 31.0000 decimal degrees
Long: 036 00 00 E degrees minutes Long: 36.0000 decimal degrees
Note: Area was inhabited by Lower Paleolithic; earliest states formed by 13th century BCE; was part of historic Palestine region; under British protection after 1920; wars with Israel 1948-1949 and 1967; territory West of Jordan River under Israeli control since 1967; official language is Arabic.
Names:
Al Urdun (preferred C ,V ,Arabic (transliterated)-P ,U )Al Mamlakah al Urduniyyah al Hāshimiyyah (C ,V ,O ,Arabic (transliterated) ,U )Al-Urdun (C ,V ,Arabic (transliterated) ,U ,N )Urdunīyah al Hāshimīyah, Al Mamlakah al (C ,V ,Arabic (transliterated) ,U ,N )Al Mamlakah al Urdunīyah al Hāshimīyah (C ,V ,Arabic (transliterated) ,U ,N )Al-Urdunn (C ,V ,Arabic (transliterated) ,U ,N )al-Urdun (C ,V ,Arabic (transliterated) ,U ,N )al-Mamlakah al-Urdunnīyah al-Hāshimīyah (C ,V ,Arabic (transliterated) ,U ,N )Al Mamlaka al Urduniya al Hashemiyah (C ,V ,Arabic (transliterated) ,U ,N )Jordan (C ,O ,English-P ,U ,N )Jordan Vietnamese )Jordan Croatian )Jordan Bosnian )Jordan Danish )Jordan Norwegian (Nynorsk) )Jordan Slovene )Jordan Hausa )Jordan Cornish )Jordan Faroese )Jordan Estonian )Jordan Norwegian (Bokmål) )Jordan Malay (macrolanguage) )Jordan Norwegian )Jordan Shona )Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (C ,O ,English ,U ,N )Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of (C ,O )Hashemite Jordan Kingdom (C ,O )Jordanian Hashimite Kingdom (C ,O )Jordanie (C ,O ,French-P ,U ,N )Royaume hachémite de Jordanie (C ,O ,French ,U ,N )Jordania (C ,O ,Malagasy )Jordania Finnish )Jordania Polish )Jordania Spanish-P ,U ,N )Jordania Basque )Jordania Albanian )Jordania Breton )Jordania Occitan )Jordania Romansh )Jordania Ido )Jordania Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) )Jordanien (C ,O ,Swedish )Jordanien German-P ,U ,N )Jordanien Low German )Jordaan (C ,O ,Dutch-P ,U ,N )Reino Hachemita de Jordania (C ,O ,Spanish ,U ,N )Jordânia (C ,O ,Portuguese-P ,U ,N )Giordano (C ,O ,Italian-P ,U ,N )الأردن (C ,O ,Arabic-P ,U )المم ىَة الأرده ةَ ا هًاشِةَ (C ,O ,O ,Arabic ,U )Иордания (C ,O ,Russian-P ,U )Иорданское Хашимитское Королевство (C ,O ,Russian ,U )约旦 (C ,O ,Chinese-P ,U )约旦哈希姆王国 (C ,O ,Chinese ,U )JOR (C ,O ,ISO3L )JO (C ,O ,ISO2L )ISO400 (C ,O ,ISO3N )Sharq el Urdun (C ,O )Sharq el Urdunn (C ,O )Jordanian (C ,O ,English ,U ,A )ירדן (C ,U ,Hebrew )An Iordáin (C ,U ,Irish Gaelic )Chordania (C ,U ,Aragonese )Djordan (C ,U ,Nauruan )Gióc-đa-ni (C ,U ,Vietnamese )Gioóc-đa-ni (Jordan) (C ,U ,Vietnamese )Giordania (C ,U ,Italian )Giurdania (C ,U ,Sicilian )Ġordan (C ,U ,Maltese )Gwlad Iorddonen (C ,U ,Welsh )Gyɔdan (C ,U ,Akan )Hascemisc Cynerīce þæs Iordanes (C ,U ,Anglo-Saxon )Hashimite Kingdom of Jordan (C ,U )Hordan (C ,U ,Tagalog )Hordanya (C ,U ,Pampanga )i-Jordan (C ,U ,Zulu )Iordania (C ,U ,Latin )Iordania Romanian )Iordaniya (C ,U ,Uzbek )Jodani (C ,U ,Luba-Katanga )Jodani North Ndebele )Jordaania (C ,U ,Estonian )Jordaanje (C ,U ,Western Frisian )Jordani (C ,U ,Albanian )Jordani Fulah )Jordánia (C ,U ,Magyar (Hungarian) )Jordánia Northern Sami )Jórdanía (C ,U ,Icelandic )Jordània (C ,U ,Catalan )Jordanië (C ,U ,Dutch )Jordanië Afrikaans )Jordanië Limburgan )Jordanija (C ,U ,Slovene )Jordanija Lithuanian )Jordānija (C ,U ,Latvian )Jordanio (C ,U ,Esperanto )Jordaniska (C ,U ,Upper Sorbian )Jordánsko (C ,U ,Slovak )Jordánsko Czech )Njorondani (C ,U ,Kikuyu )Orílẹ́ède Jọdani (C ,U ,Yoruba )Soatane (C ,U ,Tonga (Tonga Islands) )Urdun (C ,U ,Somali )Urdun Kurdish )Ürdün (C ,U ,Azerbaijani )Ürdün Turkish )Xordania - الأردن (C ,U ,Galician )Xordania (C ,U ,Galician )Yordän (C ,U ,Volapük )Yordani (C ,U ,Swahili (generic) )Yordania (C ,U ,Indonesian )Yordan nutome (C ,U ,Ewe )Yorodani (C ,U ,Ganda (Ugandan language) )Yorudaniya (C ,U ,Rundi )Yr Iorddonen (C ,U ,Welsh )Zɔdani (C ,U ,Lingala )Zordanïi (C ,U ,Sangho )Zɔrdani (C ,U ,Bambara )იორდანია (C ,U ,Georgian )ហ៊្សកដានី (C ,U ,Khmer )المملكة الاردنية الهاشمية (C ,U ,Arabic )जोर्डन (C ,U ,Hindi )जोर्डन Nepali )จอร์แดน (C ,U ,Thai )요르단 (C ,U ,Korean )Ιορδανία (C ,U ,Greek )اردن (C ,U ,Pashto )اردن Urdu )اردن Persian-Farsi )यार्दन (C ,U ,Hindi )Иордани (C ,U ,Ossetian/Ossetic )ຈໍແດນ (C ,U ,Lao )יאַרדן (C ,U ,Yiddish )Հորդանան (C ,U ,Armenian )ጆርዳን (C ,U ,Tigrinya )ጆርዳን Amharic )জর্দান (C ,U ,Bengali )Йордания (C ,U ,Bulgarian )জর্ডন (C ,U ,Bengali )जॉर्डन (C ,U ,Marathi )जॉर्डन Hindi )Јордан (C ,U ,Serbian )Јордан Macedonian )Йорданія (C ,U ,Ukrainian )יארדאניע (C ,U ,Yiddish )རྗོར་ཌན། (C ,U ,Tibetan )ஜொர்டான் (C ,U ,Tamil )Ярданія (C ,U ,Belarusian )الاردن (C ,U ,Arabic )ヨルダン (C ,U ,Japanese )ประเทศจอร์แดน (C ,U ,Thai )ܘܪܕܢ (C ,U ,Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE) )ܝܘܪܕܢܢ (C ,U ,Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE) )ജോർദാൻ (C ,U ,Malayalam )ජෝර්දානය (C ,U ,Sinhala )ജോര്ദ്ദാന് (C ,U ,Malayalam )Іарданія (C ,U ,Belarusian )ဂျော်ဒန် (C ,U ,Burmese )జార్డాన్ (C ,U ,Telugu )جردن (C ,U ,Persian-Farsi )ଜୋର୍ଡାନ୍ (C ,U ,Odia )જોર્ડન (C ,U ,Gujarati )জর্ডান (C ,U ,Bengali )ಜೋರ್ಡಾನ್ (C ,U ,Kannada )ئوردن (C ,U ,Kurdish )ཇོར་ཌན། (C ,U ,Tibetan )ヨルダン・ハシミテ王国 (C ,U ,Japanese )Transjordan (H ,O ) ............ 1921-1946 Trans-Jordan (H ,O ) ............ 1921-1946 Transjordania (H ,O ) ............ 1921-1946
Hierarchical Position:
.... Asia (continent) (P )
Additional Parents:
.... Asia (continent) (P )
.... Asia (continent) (P )
Place Types:
nation (preferred C ) ............ created in 1921
primary political unit (C )
independent sovereign nation (C ) ............ by treaty, March 22, 1946
kingdom (C )
former territory/colony/dependent state (C )
mandate (H ) ............ British, 1923-1946
territory (H ) ............ Turkish, until 1921
independent political entity (C )
Related geographic places:
capital is .... ʻAmmān .................. (World, Asia, Jordan, Al ‘Āṣimah) [7002392]
member of .... Arab League ................ (World) [7000153]
member of .... United Nations ................ (World) [7029605] ................ joined organization in 1955
Sources and Contributors:
Иорданское Хашимитское Королевство.......... [VP ] ........................................................... UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 24 July 2013
Al Mamlakah al Urduniyyah al Hāshimiyyah.......... [VP ] ................................................................. UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 24 July 2013
Hascemisc Cynerīce þæs Iordanes.......... [VP ] ..................................................... GeoNames online [n.d.] 248816
Hashimite Kingdom of Jordan.......... [VP ] ............................................... GeoNames online [n.d.] 248816
Royaume hachémite de Jordanie.......... [VP ] .................................................. ISO Handbook (1988) 780
Urdunīyah al Hāshimīyah, Al Mamlakah al.......... [VP ] ................................................................. NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 17 June 2009
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