JORDAN
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- Nearly 10 people died and more than 250 people were injured due to a poisonous gas leak in Jordan’s southern port city of Aqaba.
- The officials have said that a gas tanker was leaked while being transported.
Jordan
- Jordan is located in Western Asia.
- It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa and Europe.
- It is bordered by;
- Saudi Arabia in the South and East.
- Iraq in the Northeast.
- Syria in the North.
- Palestinian West Bank, Israel, and the Dead Sea in the West.
- It has a coastline on the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea in the Southwest.
- The Gulf of Aqaba separates Jordan from Egypt.
- Amman is Jordan's capital and largest city.
- It is a semi-arid country.
- Around 95% of the country's population is Sunni Muslim.
- It is a major tourist destination.
- The Dead Sea at Jordan and Israel border is the lowest land point on earth.
- It has the 5th largest oil-shale reserves in the world.
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