DC: Oman
Area: 91.840 sq km
Official Language: Arabic
Currency in circulation: the Jordanian dinar
Desert occupies 80% of the land and settle the population in the west of the country and separate railway lines from the desert west of the country.
Jordan enjoys a varies from west to east, climate is dry desert in the west and in the east. The average temperature 7 ° degrees Celsius in the high lands in the winter while be 30 degrees Celsius in summer.
From the agricultural point of view, do not take agriculture is crucial in Jordan, but there is a special budget allocation to irrigate agricultural land since 1971 where it has established the Kingdom of irrigation schemes create Ghor Canal, which extends north of the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea in the south.
Until 1991, these projects were able to irrigate 63 thousand hectares of agricultural land, and the finest crops characterized by the Kingdom:
* Cultivation of vegetables potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers and eggplant.
* Wheat, barley and grain cultivation.
* Kalptikh fruit cultivation, grapes and bananas.
In Jordan, a great wealth of Albotas and phosphate, which issues in the most part to global markets. Jordan and converts these two articles to the fertilizer used to enrich agricultural land.
Industry in Jordan mobile sector and thanks to the factories established by the Jordanians and contribute to the revitalization of industry and development, and we mention the most important of these industries such as cigarettes, cement, food, fertilizer and skin.
Economically, the Jordanian economy keep pace with the growth of the movement of significant financial remittances from Jordanians working abroad, especially those who work in the Gulf region.
Jordan has opened its doors to foreigners to invest their money in it and have maintained good economic situation despite the drop in aid that was received from the overseas rate.
Important tourism sector in Jordan, where it is characterized by the location of the task of attracting tourists every year (the city of Petra, Jerash site Castle Alkirk- the Dead Sea), making Jordanians depend on tourism to secure 10% of GNP.
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