Ras Munif (Arabic: رأس منيف) is a town located in the

Gilead Gilead or Gilad (, ; ''Gilʿāḏ'', , ''Jalʻād'') is the ancient, historic, biblical name of the mountainous northern part of the region of Transjordan.''Easton's Bible Dictionary'Galeed''/ref> The region is bounded in the west by the J ...

hills of Northern

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 ...

in the

Ajloun Governorate Ajloun Governorate (alternative spelling Ajlun Governorate) () is one of the governorates of Jordan, located north of Amman the capital of Jordan. Ajloun Governorate has the fourth highest population density in Jordan (after Irbid, Jerash, and ...

. The town lies in an area with some of the most fertile land in the Kingdom and due to that it has a population of mainly farmers. Ras Munif has some ruins of old houses that are approximately 200 years old in its western side. The town had a population of about 2047 residents according to the last census in 2015.

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Populated places in Ajloun Governorate Gilead {{Jordan-geo-stub