1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Jordan
Compare this sourced profile of Zarqa, 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 Zarqa—792,665, 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 Zarqa is GeoNames ID 250090. Its recorded administrative path is Zarqa → Jordan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Zarqa 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 2013-04-21; 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, Zarqa ranks 698 by recorded population. Inside the 3 selected Jordan entries it ranks 2; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 139. Its 792,665 population value is 1.00 times the 792,665 median for the country cohort and 0.88 times the 902,588 regional median. Zarqa is rank 2 among the 3 selected Jordan entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Zarqa's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Zarqa's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Amman at 18.772 km with 1,275,857 recorded people; Irbid at 58.157 km with 569,068 recorded people; Jerusalem at 88.926 km with 971,800 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 70.154 km. Compared with Amman, Zarqa's recorded population is 0.62 times as large. Against Zarqa, Amman follows Amman → Jordan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower 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 Zarqa's. Against Zarqa, 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 the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Zarqa's. Against Zarqa, 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 Zarqa's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 254 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Zarqa'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 250090, the coordinate pair 32.0728 / 36.0880, country rank 2 of 3, and neighbor GeoNames 250441 at 18.772 km bind Zarqa to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Zarqa's reference point is 32.0728° north and 36.0880° 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. Zarqa's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Zarqa's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Zarqa's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Zarqa, 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
Zarqa's closest other entries in this atlas are Amman (18.772 km), Irbid (58.157 km), Jerusalem (88.926 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2013-04-21; 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.