Marka is an area of

Greater Amman Municipality Amman ( , ; , ) is the capital and the largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of four million as of 2021, Amman is Jordan's primate city and is the largest city in the Levant reg ...

Jordan Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter ...

. It is to the north-east of

Amman Amman ( , ; , ) is the capital and the largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of four million as of 2021, Amman is Jordan's primate city and is the largest city in the Levant ...

proper and its confines include

Amman Civil Airport Amman Civil Airport (), commonly known as Marka International Airport, is located in Marka district, Greater Amman Municipality, Jordan, some northeast of Amman's city centre. Amman Civil Airport served as Amman's main airport from 1950 unt ...

and the

Marka refugee camp The Marka refugee camp () is one of six emergency camps erected in 1968 to shelter 15,000 Palestinian refugees fleeing the West Bank and the Gaza Strip due to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Located in the Marka district of metropolitan Amman, about t ...

. Population as of 2020 was 167,648.

References

External links

ammancity.gov.jo
{{Amman Governorate, marka Districts of Amman