Capital: Amman



Jordan is divided into 12 governorates (muhafazah).

Ajlun
Amman Governorate
Amman (City)

Aqaba (Arabic: al-Aqabah)
Aqaba(City) Capital of Aqaba
The city curves around a bay with looming mountains hard behind. Travel up steep-walled canyons into the dramatic valleys where Lawrence of Arabia's armies harassed the occupying Turks. Continue past Wadi Rhum, still home to nomad Bedouin, until you reach the awe-inspiring, rock-cut city of Petra, one of the "lost" cities rediscovered in the 19th century. None is more dramatic nor more mysterious than Petra, the "rose-red city half as old as time." The only entrance to Petra, the Siq, is a twisting mile of narrow passage between soaring walls of sandstone, which made the entrance to Petra both difficult to find and easy to defend. Travel along a marble-paved Roman road, surrounded by huge and elaborate structures carved into the brilliantly-colored rocks of the cliffs. Visit the so-called Royal Tombs, and the Roman Thearer. Then, stunned to silence by the majesty of Petra, return up the Siq and to Aqaba.


Balqa
Irbid
Jerash
Kerak
Kerak (City)
Capital: Al Karak.
Known for its Crusader castle, the Kerak Castle.

Ma'an
Capital Ma'an(City)
Wadi Musa

Madaba
Madaba (City)
Madaba is a capital city of Madaba Governorate
See the floor of St. George's Orthodox Church

Mount Nebo is one of the most revered holy sites of Jordan, located 10 km west of the Roman Byzantine town of Madaba, for this is where Moses (pbuh) was buried.

Mafraq
Tafilah
Zarqa






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The Dead Sea is the lowest exposed point on the Earth's surface. It is on the border between the West Bank, Israel, and Jordan on the Jordan Rift Valley. This endorheic body of water is the deepest hypersaline lake in the world.








Saint Cosmas
Memorial 26 September
Patronage apothecaries





Saint Damian
Memorial 26 September (Roman); 1 November (Greek)
Patronage apothecaries

Twin brother of Saint Cosmas





Amman (City) Saint





Saint Zeno of Philadelphia Memorial 23 June Martyred 304







Kerak Saints





Saint Theodorus of Apamea Memorial 27 December Martyr 841

Saint Theophanes Memorial 27 December (Roman Church) 11 October (Greek Church) Died 845

These men have appeared at Jerusalem as vessels full of the iniquity of superstitious error, and were driven thence for their crimes. Having fled to Constantinople, they forsook not their impiety. Wherefore they have been banished from thence and thus stigmatized on their faces.

- translation of the verse cut into the forehead of Saint Theophanes







Madaba Saints






at Machaerus (present day Mukawir) less than 20 km southwest of Madaba at the King's Highway is the place of Saint John's execution.

Saint John the Baptist
Memorial 24 June (birth) 29 August (death)
Patronage baptism
relics in Saint Sylvester's church, Rome, Italy, and at Amiens, France