R30 (Jordan)
| R30 in Jordan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Muthallat al-'Aridat ( 32 ° 8 ' N , 35 ° 37' O ) |
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al-'Amari ( 31 ° 31 ' N , 37 ° 5' O ) |
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| Overall length: | 195 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| of which in operation: | 195 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course of the road
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Map with all coordinates: The Route 30 is a highway in Jordan . The road is an east-west connection through the north and in the center of the country, coming from the Jordan Valley , past Amman to the border with Saudi Arabia . The road is 195 km long.
Street description
The road begins at a junction with Route 65 in the central Jordan Valley, around 250 meters below sea level. It rises in the Jordanian mountains to about 1,100 meters in the direction of as-Salt , where it has 2 × 2 lanes. The route through Balqa Governorate has a few intersections, but it is not a full highway. In Suwaylih, northeast of Amman, it crosses Route 35 and passes Amman in the north to Zarqa , where it crosses Route 25 . East of Zarqa there is a clover leaf with route 15 . After Zarqa the road is narrowed with only 1 × 2 lanes and it leads about 60 kilometers through the Arabian desert. The desert is rocky and very flat.
Route 40 ends eight kilometers before al-Azraq , coming from Amman via Qusair 'Amra , and joins Route 30. At the Azraq Nature Reserve, Route 30 turns south into 5 and follows it (double numbering) for 22 kilometers before it turns east again and after 30 kilometers reaches the border with Saudi Arabia . On the Saudi side, the road becomes Route 65 towards central Saudi Arabia.
meaning
Route 30 is partly a main road, especially in the eastern part in the desert in connection with the Saudi route 65, it serves as the main road from Amman to Riyadh . In connection with Route 40 as a circular route, it is also used for tourists visiting the desert castles of Qasr Kharana , Qusair Amra and Qasr al-Azraq as well as the Azraq nature reserve. The part west of Amman serves to connect the capital to the vegetable and fruit growing areas in the fertile Jordan Valley.
Cities on Route 30
literature
- Jordan. Map 1: 400,000. Publisher: Reise Know-how, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-8317-7161-5
- Frank Rainer Scheck: Jordan. Peoples and cultures between the Jordan and the Red Sea. 2nd Edition. Dumont, Ostfildern 2000, ISBN 978-3-7701-3979-8