Jordan (jor)

Jordan

Jordan ranks 10,578th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Blacksburg, Virginia, Montemor-o-Velho, and Tynemouth. Memorable people born in Jordan include Eva Abu Halaweh, and Rana Dajani. Memorable people who died in Jordan include Al-Walid II, and Sajida al-Rishawi. Jordan has been the birth place of many social activists, and biologists and the death place of many politicians, and religious figures. Jordan is located in Jordan.

Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories to the west. The Jordan River, flowing into the Dead Sea, is located along the country's western border within the Jordan Rift Valley. Jordan has a small coastline along the Red Sea in its southwest, separated by the Gulf of Aqaba from Egypt. Amman is the country's capital and largest city, as well as the most populous city in the Levant. Read more on Wikipedia