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Jordan

Capital: Amman

• The Treasury facade at Petra is about 37 m tall and 24 m wide, carved straight into a sandstone cliff.
• Wadi Rum's sandstone and granite valleys stood in for the Martian surface in the 2015 film The Martian.
• The Dead Sea is about 34 percent salt, roughly 9.6 times saltier than the ocean.
• Amman was first built on seven hills and now spans more than 19 hills across 22 administrative areas.

Cities

• Amman
• Aqaba
• Jerash
• Madaba