Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Amman
- Region
- Asia, Western Asia
- Population
- 11,520,684 (2025)
- Area
- 92,300 km²
- Currency
- Jordanian dinar (JOD)
- Languages
- Arabic, English
- Calling code
- +962
- Internet domain
- .jo, الاردن.
- ISO codes
- JO, JOR, 400
- Time zone
- UTC+3:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ##### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Jordan covers about 92,300 square kilometres. By area it ranks 113th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Portugal and a little larger than French Guiana. It shares a land border with 5 neighbours: Israel, Iraq, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria. Its centre lies at about 31° north, 36° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 11.5 million people live in Jordan (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 84th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.14 percent of the world's people. On average there are 125 people to each square kilometre. About 93 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 78 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Arabic, English. A person from Jordan is called Jordanian.
Money and economy
The currency is the Jordanian dinar (code JOD, symbol د.ا). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 61.6 billion (2025), which is about US$ 5,348 for each person (2025).
Time
Jordan uses one time zone, UTC+3:00 (Asia/Amman). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Amman | 1,275,857 |
| Zarqa | 792,665 |
| Irbid | 569,068 |
| Russeifa | 268,237 |
| Khuraybat as Sūq | 186,158 |
| Wādī as Sīr | 181,212 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Western Asia
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Georgia, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.