Zarqa
Zarqa is the capital of Zarqa Governorate in Jordan.
Zarqa is the capital of Zarqa Governorate in Jordan. Its name means "the blue (city)". It had a population of 635,160 inhabitants in 2015, and is the second most populous city in Jordan after Amman.
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Worth seeing in and around Zarqa
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Hashemite University
The Hashemite University, often abbreviated HU, is a public university in Jordan. It was established in 1995.
8.2 km · university in Jordan · Wikipedia - 02Prince Mohammed Stadium
The Prince Mohammed Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Zarqa, Jordan. It is currently used mostly for football matches.
2.2 km · multi-use stadium in Zarqa, Jordan · Wikipedia - 03Zarqa University
Zarqa University is a university in the city of Zarqa, in Jordan's Zarqa Governorate. It was established in 1994, about 6 km to the east of the city center.
5.9 km · Private university in Zarqa, Jordan · Wikipedia
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01The global village
Another kind of sad zoo for the animals who live in confined spaces with little to no landscaping or stimulation.
From Wikivoyage: Zarqa, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Zarqa
- Airports
- Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 16 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 41 km · Ben Gurion (TLV), 115 km
- Amman → Zarqa19 km · quickest by road, 33 min · JD1
- Aqaba → Zarqa301 km · quickest by air, 4h 17m · JD40–60
- Tel Aviv → Zarqa123 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · ₪60–80
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Zarqa
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Zarqa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Zarqa – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Zarqa
Zarqa is 20 km from Amman, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Russeifacity in Zarqa Governorate, Jordan8.9 km
- Khirbat Khawwhuman settlement3.1 km
- Al-Hāshimiyahdistrict of Jordan6.2 km
- Zarqa Qasabahdistrict of Jordan6.6 km