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Town in Jerash Governorate, Jordan

Balīlā

Balila is a town in far northwest Jordan, between Irbid and Jerash located in the Jerash Governorate.

Balīlā
Balīlā · EGimaging (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The place

Balila is a town in far northwest Jordan, between Irbid and Jerash located in the Jerash Governorate. It covers 40 km², and has a population of over 8,000.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Balīlā

Airports
Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 46 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 74 km · Ben Gurion (TLV), 107 km
  • Amman → Balīlā
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · JD2.5–3.5
  • Aqaba → Balīlā
    331 km · quickest by road, 5h 48m · JD15–20
  • Tel Aviv → Balīlā
    114 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · ₪65–85
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Balīlā

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 Balīlā. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIn Jerash, the minibuses to Amman leave from a junction by the handicraft building (10-minute walk south from the visitor's centre).

From Wikivoyage: Jerash, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-05.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    233 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    316 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    453 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    718 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,087 km

If you know how people move in Balīlā – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Balīlā

Balīlā is 21 km from Irbid, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.