Jordan becomes the first country in the world to eliminate leprosy, receiving official verification from the World Health Organisation (WHO).
About Jordan:
It is an Arab country of Southwest Asia, in the rocky desert of the northern Arabian Peninsula.
It is named for the Jordan River, which passes on its western border.
It occupies an area of around 91,880 sq. km.
Bordering Countries: It is bounded to the north by Syria, to the east by Iraq, to the southeast and south by Saudi Arabia, and to the west by Israeland the West Bank.
The capital and largest city in the country is Amman—named for the Ammonites, who made the city their capital in the 13th century BCE.
Jordan has 16 miles (26 km) of coastline on the Gulf of Aqaba (Red Sea)in the southwest, where Al-ʿAqabah, it's only port, is located.
Jordan has three major physiographic regions (from east to west): the desert, the uplands east of the Jordan River, and the Jordan Valley (the northwest portion of the great East African Rift System).
The desert region is mostly within the Syrian Desert—an extension of the Arabian Desert—and occupies the eastern and southern parts of the country, comprising more than four-fifths of its territory.
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