City
Amman
Capital of Jordan
What guided this image
- Landmarks
- The Amman Citadel on Jabal al-Qal’a; The Temple of Hercules; The Roman Theatre; The dominant modern city fabric; King Abdullah I Mosque
- Viewpoint
- Use the familiar southeastward view from the Citadel toward the Roman Theatre and downtown, a useful city-wide setting only when the surrounding modern limestone neighborhoods remain more extensive than the ruins.
- Palette
- For this arid city, explicitly shift the greens toward grey-green, olive, dusty sage and pale khaki; cool sand-beige limestone and slate-grey roof shadows should predominate, with restrained olive only in the limited planting.
- Guarded against
- Avoid making Amman look like Petra with rock-cut façades, Jerusalem with a continuous medieval sacred skyline, or a lush coastal Beirut.
Population1,275,857Wikidata: 500
Coordinates31.96°N, 35.95°E
Elevation776 m
Area1,680 km²
Time zoneAsia/AmmanUTC+3
Solar noon12:36clock runs 0.6 h ahead of the sun
Through the Earth
Dig straight through the Earth from Amman and you surface in open ocean, nearest to Mataura, French Polynesia — 1,096 km from the exact antipodal point.
Nearest cities in the atlas
| East Jerusalem | PS | 71 km |
| Ramallah | PS | 71 km |
| Jerusalem | IL | 72 km |
| Damascus | SY | 175 km |
| Beirut | LB | 219 km |
| Nicosia | CY | 431 km |
| Aleppo | SY | 484 km |
| Shubrā al Khaymah | EG | 492 km |
Twinned cities
- Algiers DZ
- Ankara TR
- Astana KZ
- Baghdad IQ
- Baku AZ
- Beijing CN
- Beirut LB
- Bishkek KG
- Bucharest RO
- Cairo EG
- Chicago US
- Damascus SY
- Doha QA
- Islamabad PK
- Istanbul TR
- Jeddah SA
- Khartoum SD
- Milan IT
- Montréal CA
- Moscow RU
- Muscat OM
- Nouakchott MR
- Pretoria ZA
- Rabat MA
- Ramallah PS
- Sanaa YE
- São Paulo BR
- Sarajevo BA
- Sofia BG
- Tegucigalpa HN
- Tokyo JP
- Tunis TN
- Yerevan AM
33 of 43 twinned cities are in this atlas. See the full network →