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Geography
Middle East, northwest of Saudi Arabia
31 00 N, 36 00 E
Area: 
total: 89,342 sq km
country comparison to the world: 
111
land: 88,802 sq km
water: 540 sq km
slightly smaller than Indiana
total: 1,635 km
border countries: Iraq 181 km, Israel 238 km, Saudi Arabia 744 km, Syria 375 km, West Bank 97 km
26 km
territorial sea: 3 nm
Current Weather
mostly arid desert; rainy season in west (November to April)
mostly desert plateau in east, highland area in west; Great Rift Valley separates East and West Banks of the Jordan River
lowest point: Dead Sea -408 m
highest point: Jabal Umm ad Dami 1,854 m
phosphates, potash, shale oil
arable land: 3.32%
permanent crops: 1.18%
other: 95.5% (2005)
750 sq km (2003)
0.9 cu km (1997)
total: 1.01 cu km/yr (21%/4%/75%)
per capita: 177 cu m/yr (2000)
droughts; periodic earthquakes
limited natural fresh water resources; deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
strategic location at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba and as the Arab country that shares the longest border with Israel and the occupied West Bank
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