Petra
Petra, the fabled "rose red city, half as old as time", is a well known ancient Nabataean city in the south of Jordan. Due to its breathtaking grandeur and fabulous ruins, Petra was recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985. Petra, The Treasury…Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Faraheed, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
The Treasury (Al-Khazneh)
Photo: Graham Racher, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Al-Khazneh, aka Khazneh el-Far'oun, is one of the most elaborate rock-cut tombs in Petra, a city of the Nabatean Kingdom inhabited by the Arabs in ancient times.
Vaux Moise
Wu'ayra Castle is a ruined Crusader castle located in Wadi Musa, Jordan, 1 kilometre north of the main entrance to Petra.Palace Tomb
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Palace Tomb is a Nabataean tomb in the Petra Archaeological Park.
Localities in the Area
Petra
Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wadi Musa is a town located in the Ma'an Governorate in southern Jordan.
Petra
- Type: Village
- Description: ancient city in southern Jordan
- Categories: ancient city, city, tourist attraction, archaeological site and locality
- Location: Ma'an Governorate, Southern Desert, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.3258° or 30° 19' 33" northLongitude
35.4746° or 35° 28' 28" eastElevation
879 metres (2,884 feet)Open Location Code
8G2Q8FGF+8ROpenStreetMap ID
node 7549551054OpenStreetMap Feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
250745Wikidata ID
Q5788Petra Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Petra
- Albanian: Petra
- Amharic: ጴጥራ
- Arabic: Petra
- Arabic: البترا
- Arabic: البتراء
- Arabic: المدينة الوردية
- Arabic: بتراء
- Arabic: تاريخ البتراء
- Arabic: تحرير البتراء (الأردن)
- Armenian: Պետրա
- Armenian: Փեթրա
- Asturian: Petra
- Azerbaijani: Petra
- Balinese: Pétra
- Bashkir: Петра
- Basque: Petra
- Belarusian: Петра
- Belarusian: Пэтра
- Bengali: পেত্রা
- Bosnian: Petra
- Bulgarian: Петра
- Burmese: ပီထရာမြို့
- Catalan: Petra d'Aràbia
- Catalan: Petra dAràbia
- Central Kurdish: پێترا
- Chinese: 佩特拉
- Croatian: Petra
- Czech: Petra
- Danish: Petra
- Dhivehi: ޕެޓްރާ
- Dutch: Petra
- Dutch: Raqmu
- Egyptian Arabic: بيترا
- English: Petra, Jordan
- English: Raqmu
- Esperanto: Petra
- Estonian: Petra
- Finnish: Petra
- French: Pétra
- Galician: Petra
- Georgian: პეტრა
- German: Petra
- Greek: Πέτρα
- Greek: Πέτρα Ιορδανίας
- Gujarati: પેટ્રા
- Hebrew: פטרה
- Hindi: पेत्रा
- Hungarian: Petra
- Icelandic: Petra
- Ido: Petra (Jordania)
- Indonesian: Petra, Yordania
- Indonesian: Petra
- Indonesian: Raqmu
- Interlingua: Petra (Jordania)
- Irish: Petra
- Italian: Petra
- Italian: Raqmu
- Italian: Reqem
- Japanese: ペトラ
- Javanese: Petra
- Kabiyè: Peetiraa
- Kannada: ಪೆಟ್ರಾ
- Kazakh: Петра
- Korean: 페트라
- Kurdish: Petra
- Latin: Petra (Iordania)
- Latin: Petra
- Latvian: Petra
- Limburgan: Petra
- Lithuanian: Petra
- Luxembourgish: Petra
- Macedonian: Петра
- Malay: Petra
- Malayalam: പെട്ര
- Maltese: Petra
- Maltese: Raqmu
- Marathi: पेट्रा
- Mingrelian: პეტრა
- Moksha: Пэтра
- Mongolian: Петра
- Nepali: पेत्रा
- Norwegian: Petra
- Norwegian Bokmål: Petra
- Occitan (post 1500): Petra
- Panjabi: ਪੇਤਰਾ
- Persian: پترا
- Polish: Petra
- Portuguese: Petra
- Pushto: پټرا
- Quechua: Petra
- Romanian: Petra
- Russian: Петра
- Scots: Petra
- Serbian: Petra
- Serbian: Петра
- Serbo-Croatian: Petra
- Sicilian: Petra
- Slovak: Petra
- Slovenian: Petra
- Somali: Petra-Nabataean
- South Azerbaijani: پترا
- Spanish: Al-Batrā
- Spanish: Petra
- Spanish: Raqmu
- Spanish: Rekem
- Swedish: Petra
- Tagalog: Petra
- Tamil: பெட்ரா
- Telugu: పెట్రా
- Thai: นครเปตรา
- Thai: เปตรา
- Turkish: Petra
- Ukrainian: Петра
- Urdu: بترا
- Uzbek: Petra
- Vietnamese: Petra
- Waray (Philippines): Petra
- Welsh: Petra
- Western Armenian: Փեթրա
- Wu Chinese: 佩特拉
- Yue Chinese: 佩特拉
- Zeeuws: Petra
- Al Batrā’
- Baţrā’
Other Places Named Petra
In the Area
- Umm SayhounVillage
- Khirbat MuallaqLocality
- AmaunVillage
- Al HammaLocality
- BarraqLocality
- Al HayyVillage, 3½ km northeast
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Petra. Photo: Faraheed, CC BY-SA 3.0.