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Locality in Amman Governorate, Jordan

Umm Al Kundum

Umm al Kundum, officially known as Um El Kundum, is a southwest locality in the Amman Governorate of Jordan.

Umm Al Kundum
Umm Al Kundum · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Umm al Kundum, officially known as Um El Kundum, is a southwest locality in the Amman Governorate of Jordan.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Umm Al Kundum

2 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.

  1. 01
    University of Petra

    The University of Petra is a private university located in Amman, Jordan. It grants bachelor's and master's degrees.

    2.3 km · private university in Amman, Jordan · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    'Umayri

    Tall al-’Umayri is an archaeological site in western Jordan that dates from the Early Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period. It is located near the modern capital of Amman and is significant for its well-preserved evidence of a temple, as well as archaeological evidence of a network of small farms believed to have produced wine.

    800 m · archaeological site near Amman, 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.

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Getting to Umm Al Kundum

Airports
Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 15 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 20 km · Ben Gurion (TLV), 95 km
  • Aqaba → Umm Al Kundum
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Tel Aviv → Umm Al Kundum
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Damascus → Umm Al Kundum
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Umm Al Kundum

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAdditionally, this service may be run by a minibus with extremely limited seating and space for baggage.
  • Get aroundPrivate minibuses shadow the municipal buses.

From Wikivoyage: Amman, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    176 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    260 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    398 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    750 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,114 km

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

Around it

Next door to Umm Al Kundum

Umm Al Kundum is 11 km from Amman, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.