Jordan map quiz
Explore cities and landmarks of Jordan!
Quizzes in this pack
Jordan: cities, landmarks.
| Cities | 8 questions |
| Landmarks | 8 questions |
Sample questions
- The hilly capital, with a Roman theater and ancient citadel at its heart
- Answer: Amman
- Second-largest city, an industrial hub just northeast of the capital
- Answer: Zarqa
- Northern university city near the ruins of Roman Gadara at Umm Qais
- Answer: Irbid
- The country's only seaport, a Red Sea resort famous for coral reefs
- Answer: Aqaba
- Gateway town to the rock-carved Nabataean city of Petra
- Answer: Wadi Musa
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Petra
Southern Jordan
Petra was the capital of the Nabataeans, traders who grew rich carrying incense and spices by camel through the desert. They carved tombs and temples straight into the rose-red cliffs. The most famous façade, the Treasury, appears at the end of the Siq, the narrow gorge you walk through to reach the city.
- Built
- From about the 4th century BC
- Did you know?
- The Siq gorge is about 1.2 km long
- Rings a bell?
- The Treasury is the hidden temple at the end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, from 1989
Wadi Rum
Southern Jordan
Wadi Rum, “the Valley of the Moon”, is a desert of red sand and towering sandstone and granite cliffs in southern Jordan. Bedouin have lived here for centuries, and the landscape has played Mars and other planets in films such as The Martian and Dune.
- Kind of desert
- Hot desert
- Rings a bell?
- T. E. Lawrence rode through here in the Arab Revolt, and the film Lawrence of Arabia, from 1962, was shot among its cliffs
Dead Sea
Between Jordan, Israel and the West Bank
The shore of the Dead Sea, about 430 metres below sea level, is the lowest land on Earth. Its water is almost ten times as salty as the ocean, so people float without trying, and the lake is sinking by about a metre a year.
- Altitude
- About 430 m below sea level
- Did you know?
- No fish can live in it, only tiny microbes
Mount Nebo
Madaba Governorate
Mount Nebo is the place where, in the Bible, Moses looked out over the Promised Land before he died. On clear days you can see the Jordan valley, the Dead Sea and Jericho from the top, and the Memorial of Moses holds Byzantine floor mosaics from the 500s.
- Altitude
- About 700 m
- Did you know?
- Pope John Paul II planted an olive tree here in 2000
Ajloun Castle
Ajloun
Ajloun Castle was built in 1184–1185 by one of Saladin's generals on a hilltop in northern Jordan, to guard iron mines and the road against the Crusaders. Fire signals and carrier pigeons linked it to other castles all the way to Damascus and Cairo.
- Built
- 1184–1185
Dana Nature Reserve
Tafilah Governorate
Dana Biosphere Reserve is Jordan's largest nature reserve, dropping from mountains of about 1,500 metres down to the desert of Wadi Araba, below sea level. Nubian ibex, sand cats and hundreds of kinds of birds live here, and the old stone village of Dana sits on the edge.
- Area
- About 300 km²
How it works
Pick a quiz, then find, name or choose your answer on the 3D globe. A round has 10 questions by default, or more, up to the whole quiz. Each round picks what you need most: questions due again, new ones and the places you tend to mix up. In a short round, the questions you miss are asked once more at the end. Spaced repetition then brings them back on later days until you know them.
Every round also fills your mastery badges for the continent or country, the topic and the whole world: bronze at 50%, silver at 80% and gold at 100%.
