Jordan

Jordan Hashiminskoe Kingdom - the official name of Jordan.
Capital - Amman.

State of the Middle East. It has borders with Syria, in the east - with Iraq, in the west - with Israel, in the south and south-east - with Saudi Arabia. A small area of the southern border of the country washed by the waters of the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea.

Most of the country is rocky and sandy desert, framed by low mountains and high plateaus to 1500 m. Only a small strip of territory in the north-west of the country (or depression Ghor Al Gore), as well as a narrow strip along the Dead Sea, is arable. In the central and southern regions dominated by desert and mountainous semi-deser... Read more