Safawi () is a town in

Mafraq Governorate Mafraq ( ''Muhāfaẓat al-Mafraq'', local dialects ''Mafrag'' or ''Mafra' '') is one of the governorates of Jordan, located to the north-east of Amman, capital of Jordan. It has a population of 637,000 (2021 estimate) making up 5.8% of Jordan's ...

, in

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 2015 census, there were 2,315 people in the town, of which 1,113 (48.1%) were female and 1,202 (51.9%) were male. The 1,500-year-old

Sahabi tree Sahabi Tree, or the Tree of al-Buqayawiyya (The Blessed Tree) (Arabic: شجرة البقيعاوية), is a 1500-year-old tree located in Safawi, Jordan, from Amman, the capital of Jordan. The tree is an Atlantic Pistachio tree. It is located ...

, also known as the tree of al-Buqayawiyya and the 'blessed tree', is also located near the town.

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Populated places in Mafraq Governorate {{Jordan-geo-stub