Cities

Zarqa

Western Asia

Citation Formats

General Reference

Geography Atlas. "Zarqa." Accessed September 6, 2026. https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/cities/zarqa.

APA Style

Geography Atlas. (n.d.). Zarqa. Retrieved September 6, 2026, from https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/cities/zarqa

BibTeX

@misc{geographyatlas-zarqa,
  author = {Geography Atlas},
  title = {Zarqa},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/cities/zarqa},
  note = {Accessed September 6, 2026}
}

Zarqa is the capital of Zarqa Governorate in Jordan, its name meaning the blue city. It had a population of 635,160 in 2015, making it the second most populous city in Jordan after Amman.

Comments (0)

No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.

Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)

No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.

View At A Past Year

The atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.

Switch Atlas

The Inner World

The Civil World

The Natural World