Local time
Thu, 2:14 AM GMT+3Asia/AmmanCityCapital
Amman
31.95° N, 35.93° E
- Population
- 1,060,000
- Population from Natural Earth (POP_MAX). The source does not state which year the figure belongs to, so no year is shown.
- Population rank
- 1 of 9
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 9 cities of Jordan in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of Jordan, so this is not a national ranking.
- Elevation
- 776 m
- Elevation above sea level from Wikidata (P2044), rounded to the metre. A city whose sources give two different elevations shows no row.
- Area
- 1,680 km²
- Total area from Wikidata (P2046). Where two statements differ by less than half a percent the smaller is shown; a larger disagreement (land area against total area, say) shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- Amman Governorate
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- Named after
- Ammonites
- Wikidata · P138 · checked 2026-09-20
- Time zone
- Asia/Amman
Traveler brief
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Practical bearings for Amman, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in Amman have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
Overview
Name
In the 13th century BCE, the Ammonites named their primary city Rabbath Ammon; rabbath meant "capital," translating the name as "The Capital of [the] Ammon[ites]." Over time, the name shortened to Ammon and then to Amman.
Source: CIA World Factbook · 2026-02-01 · text generated from this source, approved by a person
