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For other rivers named Jordan River or River Jordan, see Jordan River (disambiguation) . The Jordan River (in traditional English River Jordan) (Hebrew: × Ö°×Ö·×¨ ×Ö·×Ö·Ö¼×¨Ö°×ÖµÖ¼× â nehar hayarden; Arabic: ÙÙÙÙØ± Ø§ÙÙØ£ÙØ±ÙØ¯ÙÙÙ â nahr al-urdun) is a 251-kilometre (156 mi)-long river in West Asia flowing to the Dead Sea.
Jordan is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the east and south, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north, Israel, Palestine and the Dead Sea to the west and the Red Sea in its extreme south-west. Jordan is strategically located at the crossroads of Asia, Africa and Europe. The capital, Amman, is Jordan's most populous city as well as the country's economic, political and cultural centre. What is now Jordan has been inhabited by humans since the Paleolithic period.