1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Jordan
Compare this sourced profile of Irbid, 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 Irbid—569,068, 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: city in Jordan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Irbid is GeoNames ID 248946. Its recorded administrative path is Irbid → Jordan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Irbid 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 2022-09-27; 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, Irbid ranks 978 by recorded population. Inside the 3 selected Jordan entries it ranks 3; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 201. Its 569,068 population value is 0.72 times the 792,665 median for the country cohort and 0.63 times the 902,588 regional median. Irbid is rank 3 among the 3 selected Jordan entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Irbid's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Irbid's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Zarqa at 58.157 km with 792,665 recorded people; Amman at 67.35 km with 1,275,857 recorded people; Jerusalem at 105.861 km with 971,800 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 47.704 km. Compared with Zarqa, Irbid's recorded population is 0.72 times as large. Against Irbid, Zarqa follows Zarqa → Jordan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Jordan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Amman identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Irbid's. Against Irbid, Amman follows Amman → Jordan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Jordan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Amman identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Irbid's. Against Irbid, 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 the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Irbid's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 492 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Irbid's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter of atlas distances. 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 248946, the coordinate pair 32.5556 / 35.8500, country rank 3 of 3, and neighbor GeoNames 250090 at 58.157 km bind Irbid to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Irbid's reference point is 32.5556° north and 35.8500° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Amman is shared by 3 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Irbid's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Irbid's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Irbid's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Irbid, 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
Irbid's closest other entries in this atlas are Zarqa (58.157 km), Amman (67.35 km), Jerusalem (105.861 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2022-09-27; 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.