Map of Jordan

Jordan is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 31.0° N, 36.0° E. It shares land borders with 5 countries — Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Saudi Arabia and Syria — and also has its own coastline. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Jordan is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Jordan shares land frontiers with the following 5 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Jordan covers about 89,342 km² (34,495 sq mi). That makes it the 110th-largest country in the world by area and the 31st-largest in Asia, larger by area than 18 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 11,734,000, the 84th-largest in the world and the 27th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.2% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Jordan has an average population density of about 131 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 27th by population and 31st by area.

The seat of government is Amman, and the official currency is the Jordanian dinar (JOD, د.ا), and the main official language is Arabic. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+03:00.

Jordan carries the ISO country codes JO and JOR, dials on the international calling code +962 and uses the .jo, الاردن. internet domain.

Jordan shares its land borders with 5 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Iraq (capital Baghdad, about 46,118,793 people), Saudi Arabia (capital Riyadh, about 35,300,280 people), Syria (capital Damascus, about 25,620,000 people), Israel (capital Jerusalem, about 10,134,800 people) and Palestine (capital Ramallah, about 5,483,450 people).

By area, Jordan is larger than 2 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 31.0° N, 36.0° E and opens at zoom level 6, framing Jordan within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Amman. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Jordan lies about 3,441 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Jordan keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+03:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +03:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Jordanian dinar (JOD, د.ا).

The official language is Arabic, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +962 and websites commonly use the .jo, الاردن. internet domain.

In short, Jordan is a coastal country in Asia, sharing land borders with 5 countries. Its capital is Amman. Jordan has a population of about 11,734,000 and covers around 89,342 km² (34,495 sq mi), ranking it 84th in the world by population and 110th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Jordan.

The flag of Jordan is composed of three equal horizontal bands of black, white and green, with a red isosceles triangle superimposed on the hoist side of the field. This triangle has its base on the hoist end, spans about half the width of the field and bears a small seven-pointed white star at its center.

The flag of Jordan is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.