Fact File - Jordan

Get to know Jordan! Get the facts about its land, products and people.

Official name: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Size: 35,637 square miles (92,300 square kilometers); slightly smaller than Indiana

Population: 6,053,193 as of July 2007

Capital: Amman

Official Language: Arabic

Currency: Jordanian dinar

Climate: Mostly dry desert; a rainy season in the west from November to April

Literacy Rate: 91.3 %

Industries: clothing, phosphate mining, fertilizers, medicines, petroleum refining, cement, light manufacturing, tourism

Agricultural Products: citrus, tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, sheep, poultry, stone fruits, strawberries

Did you know?:

• The Arabian oryx, a white antelope native to Jordan, was declared extinct in the wild in 1972. Six years later, eight oryx were introduced to the Shumari Wildlife Reserve, near Azraq. Today there are about 80 of the animals in the reserve.

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