Jordan

the Jordanian Hashimitsky Kingdom - the state in the Western Asia. The square - 89,4  thousand sq. km. The population 2,8  million persons. The state religion - Islam (sunnitskogo sense). The Official language - Arabian. Capital - Amman.

the Climate of Jordan subtropical, dry. It is the country of deserts and semi-deserts in which there are small oases. Only in a northwest part of the country where wet marine winds reach, are passed round drevesno-kustarnikovye formations of the Mediterranean phylum.

The River network form vadi - time waterways, high-water only in winter rains. In the summer they dry up or hardly melejut. River Jordan to which the assemblage of legends is bound and which it is mentioned in the Scriptus has constant flow only.

On national and religious composition the population is is unimodal enough: the overwhelming majority - Arabs-Moslems sunnitskogo sense, is also Arabs-Christians and druses. Jordan - the unique Arabian country at which nomads-Christians bunk. They consider themselves as offsprings of crusaders, whose state in Õ-ÕI occupied centuries, besides other lands, a significant part of modern Jordan.

On terrain of the country the population is distributed non-uniform: in the east of its density it is less, and in desert areas it consists mainly of nomads. The population overwhelming majority bunks at capital - Amman and small items urban or of agricultural phylum, combining holdings by agriculture with handcraft or job at the small handicraft factories. In Jordan - the lowest in the world percent working: about 1/4 population of the country.

The Basic branch of the Jordanian economy - agriculture. Main agricultural region - a valley of river Jordan. The significant role is played by gardening and vegetable growing. The important branch of agriculture - the cattle breeding saving generally nomadic and seminomadic character.