Country · JO

Jordan in other languages: الأردن, Amman and the twelve governorates

Jordan is الأردن (al-Urdunn) in Arabic, and its full name is المملكة الأردنية الهاشمية, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; ISO 3166-1 codes it JO, JOR and 400. The page gives the name in 178 languages and Amman in 71, then the twelve governorates in Arabic with their capitals and the text of the Royal Anthem.

Official languagesArabic (العربية)

Checked 5 November 2026

ISO 3166-1alpha-2 · alpha-3 · numeric

ratio 1:2

alpha-2: JO
alpha-3: JOR
numeric: 400

الأردن Arabic · ArabicRomanised al-Urdunn

المملكة الأردنية الهاشميةal-Mamlakâẗu l-Urdunnīyâẗi l-Hāšimīyâ

English: JordanHashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Capital: عمانʿAmmān · Amman

ISO 3166-1, checked 28 October 2026

01 · Exonyms

Jordan (الأردن) in other languages: list of exonyms

Jordan in 178 languages and variants, grouped where the spelling is shared, with ISO 639-3 codes and romanisation
Languages	ISO 639-3	Name	Romanised
English, Cornish, Danish, Faroese, Hausa, Croatian, Norwegian, Novial, Swahili, Tok Pisin	eng / cor / dan / fao / hau / hrv / nor / nov / swa / tpi	Jordan	same as written
Breton, Basque, Finnish, Kven, Interlingua, Occitan, Polish, Romansh, Spanish, Albanian	bre / eus / fin / fkv / ina / oci / pol / roh / spa / sqi	Jordania	same as written
Afrikaans, Limburgish, Dutch	afr / lim / nld	Jordanië	same as written
German, Luxembourgish, Low German, Saterland Frisian, Swedish	deu / ltz / nds / stq / swe	Jordanien	same as written
Asturian, Galician	ast / glg	Xordania	same as written
Catalan, Sardinian	cat / srd	Jordània	same as written
Czech, Slovak	ces / slk	Jordánsko	same as written
Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian	dsb / hsb	Jordaniska	same as written
Estonian, Võro	est / vor	Jordaania	same as written
Gagauz, Karakalpak	gag / kaa	İordaniya / Иордания	İordaniya
Indonesian, Javanese	ind / jav	Yordania, Jordania	same as written
Italian, Ladin	ita / lld	Giordania	same as written
Kinyarwanda, Kirundi	kin / run	Yordaniya	same as written
Lithuanian, Slovenian	lit / slv	Jordanija	same as written
Romanian, Aromanian	ron / rup	Iordania	same as written
Northern Sami, Tetum, Hungarian	sme / tet / hun	Jordánia	same as written
Aragonese	arg	Chordania	same as written
Azerbaijani	aze	İordaniya / Иорданија	İordaniya
Bambara	bam	Zɔrɔdani	same as written
Bosnian	bos	Jordan / Јордан / يۉردان	Jordan
Corsican	cos	Ghjurdania	same as written
Crimean Tatar	crh	Urdun / Урдун	Urdun
Kashubian	csb	Jordaniô	same as written
Welsh	cym	Gwlad Iorddonen	same as written
Esperanto	epo	Jordanio	same as written
French	fra	Jordanie	same as written
Franco-Provençal	frp	J·ordanie	same as written
West Frisian	fry	Jordaanje	same as written
Friulian	fur	Gjordanie	same as written
Scottish Gaelic	gla	Iòrdan	same as written
Irish	gle	An Iordáin	same as written
Manx	glv	Yn Jordaan	same as written
Haitian Creole	hat	Jòdani	same as written
Hawaiian	haw	Ioredāne	same as written
Igbo	ibo	Jọdenia	same as written
Icelandic	isl	Jórdanía	same as written
Jersey Norman French	jnf	Jourdain	same as written
Kurmanji Kurdish	kur	Erden, Urdin, Urdûn	same as written
Latin	lat	Iordania, Jordania	same as written
Latvian	lav	Jordānija	same as written
Lingala	lin	Zordaní	same as written
Latgalian	ltg	Jordaneja	same as written
Malagasy	mlg	Jordana	same as written
Maltese	mlt	Ġordan	same as written
Moldovan	mol	Iordania / Иордания	Iordania
Malay	msa	Jordan / جوردن	Jordan
Nahuatl	nah	Xordantlān	same as written
Norman French	nrm	Jourdanîn	same as written
Portuguese	por	Jordânia	same as written
Quechua	que	Hurdanya	same as written
Kalderash Romani	rmy	Yordaniya / योर्दानिया	Yordaniya
Sicilian	scn	Giurdania	same as written
Slovio	slo	Jordania / Йорданиа	Jordania
Samogitian	smg	Juordanėjė	same as written
Samoan	smo	Ioritana	same as written
Somali	som	Urdun, Joordan	same as written
Silesian	szl	Jordańja	same as written
Tagalog	tgl	Hordan	same as written
Tongan	ton	Sioatani	same as written
Turkmen	tuk	Iordaniýa / Иордания	Iordaniýa
Turkish	tur	Ürdün, Erdün	same as written
Uzbek	uzb	Iordaniya / Иордания / ئىئاردەنىيە	Iordaniya
Vietnamese	vie	Gióc-đa-ni	same as written
Volapük	vol	Lurdunän	same as written
Walloon	wln	Djordaneye	same as written
Wolof	wol	Jordaani	same as written
Zazaki	zza	Urdun	same as written
Abaza, Altai, Avar, Khakas, Komi, Karachay-Balkar, Kumyk, Lezgi, Russian, Yakut, Tuvan, Udmurt, Kalmyk	abq / alt / ava / kjh / kom / krc / kum / lez / rus / sah / tyv / udm / xal	Иордания	Iordanija
Chuvash, Ossetian	chv / oss	Иордани	Iordani
Rusyn, Ukrainian	rue / ukr	Йорданія	Jordanija
Abkhaz	abk	Иорданиа	Iordania
Avar	ava	Ордон	Ordon
Bashkir	bak	Иордания / İordaniya	İordaniya
Belarusian	bel	Іарданія / Iardanija, Ярданія / Jardanija	Iardanija, Jardanija
Bulgarian	bul	Йордания	Jordanija
Chechen	che	Иордани / Iordani	Iordani
Kazakh	kaz	Иордания / يوردانيا / Ïordanïya	Ïordanïya
Kabardian	kbd	Йорданиэ	Jordaniă
Kyrgyz	kir	Иордания / يوردانىيا / Yordaniya	Yordaniya
Kurdish (Caucasus)	kmr	Ордон / Ordon, Ордони / Ordonî, Иордани / Îordanî	Ordon, Ordonî, Îordanî
Meadow Mari	mhr	Иорданий	Iordanij
Macedonian	mkd	Јордан	Jordan
Mongolian	mon	Иордан	Iordan
Serbian	srp	Јордан / Jordan	Jordan
Tatar	tat	Иордания / İordaniä / ئىئوردانىيە	İordaniä
Tajik	tgk	Ӯрдун / اردن / Ūrdun	Ūrdun
Arabic	ara	الأردن	al-Urdunn
South Azerbaijani	azb	ایوردانییا / İordaniya	İordaniya
Sorani Kurdish	ckb	ئوردن / Urdin, ئوردون / Urdun, ئەردەن / Erden	Urdin, Urdun, Erden
Persian	fas	اردن / Ordon	Ordon
Western Punjabi	pnb	اردن	Urdun
Dari	prs	اردن	Ordon
Pashto	pus	اردن, اردنيه	Urdun, Urduniyâ
Uyghur	uig	ئىئوردانىيە / Iordaniye / Иордания	Iordaniye
Urdu	urd	اردن, جورڈن	Urdun, Jōrḋan
Dhivehi	div	ޖޯޑުން	Jōḋun
Syriac	syr	ܝܪܕܢ	Yordan
Hebrew	heb	ירדן	Yarden
Ladino	lad	זﬞורדאניה / Jordania	Jordania
Yiddish	yid	יאָרדאַניע, ירדן	Yordanye, Yardn
Kabyle	kab	ⵓⵔⴷⵓⵏ / Urdun	Urdun
Amharic	amh	ዮርዳኖስ, ጆርዳን	Yordanos, Jordan
Greek (Demotic)	ell	Ιορδανία	Iordanía
Greek (Katharevousa)	ell	Ἰορδανία	Iordanía
Armenian	hye	Հորդանան	Hordanan
Georgian, Mingrelian	kat / xmf	იორდანია	Iordania
Laz	lzz	ურდუნი / Urduni	Urduni
Hindi	hin	जॉर्डन, जोर्डन, जार्डन	Jŏrḍan, Jorḍan, Jārḍan
Bengali	ben	জর্দান, জর্ডান, জর্ডন	Jôrdān, Jôrḍān, Jôrḍôn
Gujarati	guj	જૉર્ડન	Jŏrḍan
Odia	ori	ଜୋର୍ଡାନ	Jorḍān
Punjabi	pan	ਜਾਰਡਨ	Jārḍan
Sinhala	sin	ජෝර්‍දානය	Jōrdānaya
Kannada	kan	ಜಾರ್ಡನ್	Jārḍan
Malayalam	mal	ജോര്‍ദാൻ, ജോര്‍ദ്ദാൻ	Jōrdān, Jōrddān
Tamil	tam	ஜோர்தான், ஜோர்டன், ஜோர்டான்	Jōrtāṉ, Jōrṭaṉ, Jōrṭāṉ
Telugu	tel	జోర్డాన్	Jōrḍān
Chinese	zho	約旦/约旦	Yuēdàn
Cantonese	yue	約旦/约旦	Yeukdaan
Japanese	jpn	ジョルダン, ヨルダン	Jorudan, Yorudan
Korean	kor	요르단	Yoreudan
Tibetan	bod	ཇོར་ཏའན།, ཡོ་ཏན།, རྗོར་ཌན།	Jor.tān, Yo.tan, rJor.ḍan
Burmese	mya	ဂျော်ဒန်	Jɔdã
Thai	tha	จอร์แดน	Čɔ̄[r]dǣn
Lao	lao	ຊອັກດະນີ	Sɔkdanī
Khmer	khm	ហ្ស៊កដង់, ហ្សកដង់, ហ្សូដង់	Hsokdăṅ, Hsokdăṅ, Hsūdăṅ

02 · NamesU+0646 ARABIC LETTER NOON

Jordan, Urdun, Yarden: a country named after its river

The Arabic name الأردن, al-Urdunn, is the name of the river Jordan, and the river gave the country its name in every language. Two families of spellings result. Europe took the biblical form through Greek and Latin: Ιορδανία (Iordanía) in Greek, Iordania in Latin, Jordanien in German and Swedish, Jordanie in French, Giordania in Italian, Jordânia in Portuguese and Иордания (Iordanija) in Russian and ten other languages written in Cyrillic.

Languages that met the name through Arabic keep its vowels. Persian and Urdu write اردن (Ordon, Urdun), Somali has Urdun beside Joordan, Turkish Ürdün and Kurmanji Erden or Urdûn. Hebrew uses the river name itself, ירדן (Yarden), and Maltese writes Ġordan. Welsh adds the word for land, Gwlad Iorddonen, and Irish puts the article in front, An Iordáin.

Amman, عمان (ʿAmmān), is the ancient Rabbath Ammon, and Hebrew still lists רבת־עמון (Rabat-ʿAmōn) beside the modern form. Latin calls the city Philadelphia, after its Greek refoundation, and Katharevousa Greek keeps Ἀμμών next to Ἀμμᾶν. Most other languages simply write Amman, Spanish and Czech Ammán.

03 · Amman

Amman (عمان) in other languages

Amman in 71 languages and variants, grouped where the spelling is shared, with ISO 639-3 codes and romanisation
Languages	ISO 639-3	Name	Romanised
English, French, German, Luxembourgish, Low German, Irish	eng / fra / deu / ltz / nds / gle	Amman	same as written
Aragonese, Asturian, Galician, Tetum	arg / ast / glg / tet	Amán	same as written
Czech, Hungarian, Slovak, Spanish	ces / hun / slk / spa	Ammán	same as written
Azerbaijani, Turkmen	aze / tuk	Amman / Амман	Amman
Slovenian, Tagalog	slv / tgl	Aman	same as written
Bosnian	bos	Aman / Аман / آمان	Aman
Esperanto	epo	Amano	same as written
Estonian	est	Ammaan	same as written
Kurmanji Kurdish	kur	Eman	same as written
Latin	lat	Philadelphia	same as written
Latvian	lav	Ammāna	same as written
Lithuanian	lit	Amanas	same as written
Moldovan	mol	Aman / Аман	Aman
Malay	msa	Amman / عمان	Amman
Portuguese	por	Amã	same as written
Samogitian	smg	Amans	same as written
Somali	som	Camaan	same as written
Uzbek	uzb	Amman / Амман / ئەممەن	Amman
Mongolian, Russian, Ukrainian	mon / rus / ukr	Амман	Amman
Belarusian, Serbian	bel / srp	Аман / Aman	Aman
Bashkir	bak	Амман / Amman	Amman
Bulgarian	bul	Аман	Aman
Chechen	che	Ӏамман / Jamman	Jamman
Kazakh, Kyrgyz	kaz / kir	Амман / اممان / Amman	Amman
Tatar	tat	Амман / Amman / ئاممان	Amman
Tajik	tgk	Аммон / عمان / Ammon	Ammon
Arabic, Western Punjabi, Urdu	ara / pnb / urd	عمان	ʿAmmān
South Azerbaijani	azb	آممان / Amman	Amman
Persian	fas	عمان / Ammân	Ammân
Pashto	pus	عمان	ʿAmān
Uyghur	uig	ئەممان / Emman / Амман	Emman
Syriac	syr	ܥܡܢ	ʿAman
Hebrew	heb	עמן, עמאן, רבת־עמון	ʿAman, ʿAmān, Rabat-ʿAmōn
Yiddish	yid	אַמאַן	Aman
Amharic	amh	አማን	Ăman
Greek (Demotic)	ell	Αμμάν	Ammán
Greek (Katharevousa)	ell	Ἀμμᾶν, Ἀμμών	Ammãn, Ammṓn
Armenian	hye	Աման	Aman
Georgian	kat	ამანი	Amani
Hindi, Marathi	hin / mar	अम्मान	Ammān
Bengali	ben	আম্মান	Āmmān
Punjabi	pan	ਅਮਾਨ	Amān
Kannada	kan	ಅಮ್ಮಾನ್	Ammān
Malayalam	mal	അമ്മാൻ	Ammān
Tamil	tam	அம்மான்	Ammāṉ
Telugu	tel	అమ్మాన్	Ammān
Chinese	zho	安曼	Ānmàn
Japanese	jpn	アンマン	Anman
Korean	kor	암만	Amman
Thai	tha	อัมมาน	Âmmān
Khmer	khm	អាមម៉ុង	Āmmuṅ

04 · Governorates

The twelve governorates of Jordan in Arabic

Jordan is divided into twelve governorates, محافظات (muḥāfaẓāt). Each is named محافظة, governorate, followed by its capital; only Balqa takes its name from a region and is governed from as-Salṭ.

Jordan, ISO 3166-2:JO: 12 governorates
ISO 3166-2	Arabic	English	Administrative centre	Change
Governorates محافظات12
JO-AJ	محافظة عجلونMuḥāfaẓâẗu ʿAǧlūn	Ajloun	عجلونʿAǧlūn
JO-AM	محافظة عمانMuḥāfaẓâẗu ʿAmmān	Amman	عمانʿAmmān	ISO name: العاصمة (al-ʿĀṣimah), the capital
JO-AQ	محافظة العقبةMuḥāfaẓâẗu l-ʿAqabâ	Aqaba	العقبةal-ʿAqabâ
JO-AT	محافظة الطفيلةMuḥāfaẓâẗu ṭ-Ṭafīlâ	Tafilah	الطفيلةaṭ-Ṭafīlâ
JO-AZ	محافظة الزرقاءMuḥāfaẓâẗu z-Zarqāʾ	Zarqa	الزرقاءaz-Zarqāʾ
JO-BA	محافظة البلقاءMuḥāfaẓâẗu l-Balqāʾ	Balqa	السلطas-Salṭ
JO-IR	محافظة إربدMuḥāfaẓâẗu Irbid	Irbid	إربدIrbid
JO-JA	محافظة جرشMuḥāfaẓâẗu Ǧaraš	Jerash	جرشǦaraš
JO-KA	محافظة الكركMuḥāfaẓâẗu l-Karak	Karak	الكركal-Karak
JO-MA	محافظة المفرقMuḥāfaẓâẗu l-Mafraq	Mafraq	المفرقal-Mafraq
JO-MD	محافظة مأدباMuḥāfaẓâẗu Maʾdabā	Madaba	مأدباMaʾdabā
JO-MN	محافظة معانMuḥāfaẓâẗu Maʿān	Maʿan	معانMaʿān

Codes and English names: ISO 3166-2:JO on the ISO Online Browsing Platform, read from the English Wikipedia table that reproduces it on 28 October 2026; ISO newsletter II-3 of 13 December 2011 re-ordered the list and refined the names. Arabic names, transliterations and capitals: the 2017 edition of this list.

05 · GovernoratesU+0638 ARABIC LETTER ZAH

Codes, capitals and the Amman exception

The ISO codes follow the romanised Arabic, so the article al- shows in several of them: JO-AQ for al-ʿAqabâ, JO-AZ for az-Zarqāʾ, JO-AT for aṭ-Ṭafīlâ. The set has stayed at twelve governorates since ISO 3166-2 first appeared in 1998; the only revision, in 2011, reordered the entries and made the names more precise.

One name differs between the two sources. The local form gives محافظة عمان, the governorate of Amman, while ISO 3166-2 lists the unit as العاصمة (al-ʿĀṣimah), the capital, under the code JO-AM. Of the ten largest towns of Jordan, six are governorate capitals; ar-Ruṣayfâ, Wādī s-Sīr, al-Baqʿâ and Ṣuwayliḥ are not.

06 · Anthem

عاش المليك: the Royal Anthem of Jordan

The Royal Anthem of Jordan, السلام الملكي الأردني (as-salāmu l-malakīyu l-urdunnī), opens with the words عاش المليك, long live the king. The Arabic words are by Abdul Monem al-Rifai.

07 · Questions

Questions about the names of Jordan

How do you write Jordan in Arabic?

الأردن, al-Urdunn. The full name is المملكة الأردنية الهاشمية, al-Mamlakâẗu l-Urdunnīyâẗi l-Hāšimīyâ.

What does عاش المليك mean?

Long live the king. The words open the Royal Anthem of Jordan and return in each stanza.

How many governorates does Jordan have?

Twelve, from Ajloun to Zarqa, each with a two-letter ISO 3166-2 code such as JO-AM for the capital governorate.