Capital: Amman
Area: 91.840 sq km
Official language: English
Currency: Jordanian dinar
Desert occupies 80% of the land and stabilize the population in the west of the country and railway lines separating the desert west of the country.
Enjoy the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan climate varies from west to east, the climate is dry desert in the west and in the east. The average temperature 7 ° degrees Celsius in the highlands in the winter while it is 30 degrees Celsius in summer.
In agricultural terms, do not take critical importance of agriculture in Jordan, but no special budget allocation to irrigate agricultural land since 1971 where the Kingdom has established a project to irrigate the establishment of Ghor Canal, which extends from the Sea of Galilee in the north to the Dead Sea in the south.
And until 1991 this project was able to irrigate 63 thousand hectares of agricultural land, and the finest plantations characterized by the Kingdom:
* Planting vegetables, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers and eggplant.
* Wheat, barley and grain.
* Fruit cultivation Kalptikh, grapes and bananas.
In Jordan, a great wealth of Albotas and phosphate, which in most of it exported to the world markets.The Jordan converts these articles into fertilizer used to enrich farmland.
Industry mobile sector in Jordan and the credit for this is due to the factories established by the Jordanians and contribute to the revitalization and development of industries, and we mention the most important of these industries such as cigarettes, cement, food, fertilizer and skin.
Economically, keep pace with the growth of the movement of the Jordanian economy important remittances from Jordanians working abroad, particularly those working in the Gulf region.
Jordan has opened its doors to foreigners to invest their money in it and kept the good economic situation despite the low percentage of aid that was received from abroad.
Tourism is an important sector in Jordan, where it has a important sites attract tourists every year (Jerash city of Petra, Karak Castle - the Dead Sea), making Jordanians dependent on tourism in securing 10% of GNP.
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