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Capital: Amman

Location: Middle East, northwest of Saudi Arabia, between Israel (to the west) and Iraq

Government: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Currency: Jordanian dinars (JOD)

Area: 89,342 sq km

Population: 10,909,567 (July 2021 est.)

Languages: Arabic (official), English (widely understood among upper and middle classes)

Religion: Muslim 97.1% (official; predominantly Sunni), Christian 2.1% (majority Greek Orthodox, but some Greek and Roman Catholics, Syrian Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, and Protestant denominations), Buddhist 0.4%, Hindu 0.1%, Jewish <0.1%, folk <0.1%, other <0.1%, unaffiliated <0.1% (2020 est.)

TimeZone: UTC+2

Tel Code: +962