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Middle East - Jordan

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• Syria

• Amman (1,135,733)
• Irbid (650,000)
• Az Zarqa (447,880)
• Aqaba (95,408)

Jordanian children welcomed the Pope

• Six Day War - 1967

• Population: 5,906,760
• Life expectancy: 78.4 years
• Literacy: 91.3%

• Median Age: 23 years
• Suffrage: 18 years - universal

• Land size: slightly smaller than Indiana
• total: 92,300 sq km
• water: 329 sq km

•  Two Seas Canal

• Jordan declared independent state following British Mandate over  TransJordan (1946)
• Six Day War
• Black September purge of PLO 1970-1971

• Arabic
• English

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• Arab League

• Sunni Muslim 92%
• Christian 6% (majority Greek Orthodox, but some Greek and Roman Catholics
• Syrian Orthodox

• Coptic Orthodox
• Armenian Orthodox, and Protestant denominations)
• other 2% (several small Shi'a Muslim and Druze populations)

• Department of Energy: none
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