Ash-Shunah al-Janubiyah
الشونة الجنوبية | |
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Town | |
  Ash-Shunah al-Janubiyah | |
| Coordinates: 31°54′53″N 35°36′48″E / 31.9148°N 35.6133°E | |
| Country |  Jordan |
| Population (2015[1]) | |
• Total | 2,887 |
Ash-Shunah al-Janubiyah (Arabic: الشونة الجنوبية), also Shoonah Janoobiyah, South Shuna or Southern Shouneh, etc.,[2] is a populated place in Balqa Governorate, Jordan, in the eastern Jordan Valley, not far from the place where the Jordan flows into the Dead Sea. The town stretches along the Jordan Valley Highway (HW 65) north of the intersection with Route 437 (King Hussein Bridge Road), east of the Allenby (or King Hussein) Bridge and border crossing. It is the seat of the Ash-Shunah al-Janubiyah District.
South Shuna is the location of the cultural heritage site known as Shunet Nimrin / Shunat Nimrin.[2] The Tell Nimrin archaeological site is within South Shuna.[3][4]
There is a Monument to the Unknown Soldier to commemorate the victory at the Battle of Karameh.
- ^ 2015 Jordan Census, The Population of the Kingdom by Administrative Divisions, According to the General Census of Population and Housing result 2015 (search for "Shoonah Janoobiyah")
- ^ a b United States Board on Geographic Names (1990). Gazetteer of Jordan: Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names (2 ed.). Washington, D.C.: Defense Mapping Agency. p. 273. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ Environmental and Social Considerations in Detailed Planning Survey. The North Shuna-South Shuna Road Project (NSSRP) (Japan International Cooperation Agency Archive)
- ^ Ahrens, Alexander. "From the Jordan Valley Lowlands to the Transjordanian Highlands: Preliminary Report of the Wadi Shuʿayb Archaeological Survey Project 2016", in: Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 59 (2018), pp. 631-648. Via academia.edu, accessed 22 Jan 2022.