Az Zarqa is the second city in Jordan according to its population after Amman. Most of the industry in Jordan is located there. People from all over the kingdom have moved there since the 1940's. Additionally, more than 50% of its population have came from Palestine after the Israeli invasion of the West Bank. Its climate is dessert like. The majority of peoples work in low income jobs like soldiers, technichians and laborers. Amman (Arabic عمان Ê¿AmmÄn), the capital of the Kingdom of Jordan, is a city of more than 1. ... Palestine (region) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...
Zarqa or Zerka (both: zär'kä), in the Bible, river, 80 mi (129 km) long, rising in the hills W of Amman, N Jordan, and flowing generally north, then west, to the Jordan River; it is the ancient Jabbok.
Zarqa is the capital of Zarqa Governorate (Arabic Muhāfazat az-Zarqā).
Zarqa is Jordan's industrial center, with 50% of the country's industry located in the city.
It is the capital of the Zarqa Governorate with an area of 1,572 km² and 900,000 inhabitants (2005 estimate).
Zarqa thrives from the nearby phosphate mines, and is diverse industrial centre, counting for half of all industrial activity in Jordan.
Zarqa's name is modern times linked with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, deemed the foremost terrorist in Iraq (since 2003, the US/British-Iraq War) by Western nations, but a hero with many Islamists, who was born here.
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