1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Jordan
Compare this sourced profile of Amman, Jordan before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Amman—1,275,857, Asia/Amman, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital of Jordan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Amman is GeoNames ID 250441. Its recorded administrative path is Amman → Jordan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Amman occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2019-09-05; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Amman ranks 398 by recorded population. Inside the 3 selected Jordan entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 82. Its 1,275,857 population value is 1.61 times the 792,665 median for the country cohort and 1.41 times the 902,588 regional median. Amman is rank 1 among the 3 selected Jordan entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Amman's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Amman's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Zarqa at 18.772 km with 792,665 recorded people; Irbid at 67.35 km with 569,068 recorded people; Jerusalem at 71.865 km with 971,800 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 53.093 km. Compared with Zarqa, Amman's recorded population is 1.61 times as large. Against Amman, Zarqa follows Zarqa → Jordan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Jordan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Amman identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Amman's. Against Amman, Irbid follows Irbid → Jordan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Jordan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Amman identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Amman's. Against Amman, Jerusalem follows Jerusalem → Israel in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Israel cohort rather than Jordan, uses Asia/Jerusalem instead of Asia/Amman, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Amman's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 254 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Amman's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 250441, the coordinate pair 31.9552 / 35.9450, country rank 1 of 3, and neighbor GeoNames 250090 at 18.772 km bind Amman to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Amman's reference point is 31.9552° north and 35.9450° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Amman is shared by 3 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Amman's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Amman's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Amman's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Amman, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Amman's closest other entries in this atlas are Zarqa (18.772 km), Irbid (67.35 km), Jerusalem (71.865 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2019-09-05; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.