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title: "Jordan — capital, area, population and currency"
description: "Jordan: capital Amman, area 89,342 km², population 11,520,684 (2025), currency Jordanian dinar. Languages, time zones and calling code."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country/jordan/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Jordan

**Jordan: Capital Amman**

89,342 km² · 11,520,684 people (2025) · Jordanian dinar

The Jordan Rift Valley holds the lowest land on Earth. Wadi Rum in the south is a sandstone and granite desert of towering inselbergs that stands in for Mars in a long list of films. Petra was cut directly into the rock face by the Nabataeans around the 1st century BC.

## The facts

- **Capital:** Amman
- **Area:** 89,342 km² — 34,495 sq mi
- **Population:** 11,520,684 (2025)
- **Density:** 129.0 people per km²
- **Currency:** Jordanian dinar (JOD, د.ا)
- **Official language:** Arabic
- **Time zone:** UTC+03:00
- **Calling code:** +962
- **Drives on the:** right
- **ISO codes:** JO · JOR
- **Continent:** Asia

## How it compares

- **By area:** 111 of 200
- **By population:** 84 of 200

> Population is the only figure on this page that dates — it is a 2025 estimate and will drift. Area, capital, currency, languages, calling code and driving side change rarely or never.

## Countries of a similar size

| Country | Area (km²) | Population |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hungary | 93,028 | 9,514,251 |
| Portugal | 92,090 | 10,804,871 |
| Jordan ← | 89,342 | 11,520,684 |
| Azerbaijan | 86,600 | 10,246,996 |
| Austria | 83,871 | 9,208,163 |

## Common questions

### What is the capital of Jordan?

Amman

### What currency does Jordan use?

The Jordanian dinar (JOD).

### How big is Jordan?

89,342 km², or 34,495 square miles — 111 of 200 by area.

### Which side of the road does Jordan drive on?

The right.

## Related pages

- [Hungary](https://atoneplace.net/country/hungary/)
- [Portugal](https://atoneplace.net/country/portugal/)
- [Azerbaijan](https://atoneplace.net/country/azerbaijan/)
- [Austria](https://atoneplace.net/country/austria/)
- [India](https://atoneplace.net/country/india/)
- [China](https://atoneplace.net/country/china/)
- [Indonesia](https://atoneplace.net/country/indonesia/)
- [Pakistan](https://atoneplace.net/country/pakistan/)
- [Bangladesh](https://atoneplace.net/country/bangladesh/)
- [Japan](https://atoneplace.net/country/japan/)
- [Philippines](https://atoneplace.net/country/philippines/)
- [Vietnam](https://atoneplace.net/country/vietnam/)

## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]