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Irbid

a town in NW Jordan. Pop.: 280 000 (2005 est.)
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Irbid

a city in northern Jordan, administrative center of the Irbid governorate. Population, 63,000 (1967). A highway junction, Irbid is a commercial center of an agricultural region (wheat, barley, olives). There is handicraft production of household articles in the city.

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