Jordan learning maps, prepared 17 October 2026

Scope: twelve governorates, twenty selected cities/towns and three waters.
These generalised learning maps do not define legal or maritime boundaries,
visitor entrances, navigable routes or present water levels. Codes use the
source ISO 3166-2 governorate codes and jo- application identifiers elsewhere.

Governorates: geoBoundaries gbOpen JOR ADM1, 2006 reference boundaries,
2023 build, sourced from geoBoundaries/Wikimedia and licensed CC BY 2.5.
https://github.com/wmgeolab/geoBoundaries/tree/main/releaseData/gbOpen/JOR/ADM1
https://www.geoboundaries.org/
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/
Runfola et al. (2020), geoBoundaries: A global database of political
administrative boundaries. PLOS ONE 15(4): e0231866.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231866
The original simplified snapshot and its metadata are retained as
scripts/jordan-admin-source.geojson and scripts/jordan-admin-metadata.json.
Source metadata does not identify the underlying Wikimedia file precisely;
the supplied source attribution and licence are retained here.
The twelve-unit framework was checked against the national portal:
https://jordan.gov.jo/EN/Pages/About_Jordan

Waters: Natural Earth 1:10m, public domain, retrieved 17 October 2026.
https://github.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/blob/master/geojson/ne_10m_rivers_lake_centerlines.geojson
https://github.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/blob/master/geojson/ne_10m_lakes.geojson
https://github.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/blob/master/geojson/ne_10m_geography_marine_polys.geojson
https://github.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/blob/master/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.geojson
https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/
The lower Jordan River is clipped to the country vicinity with a small border
allowance, north of the Dead Sea. Lake-centreline segments are omitted so the
river does not compete with the lake as an answer. The Dead Sea combines two
reference basin polygons, including its heavily modified southern basin;
the outlines do not show today's shoreline or current water coverage.
The Gulf of Aqaba target shows its northern reach, clipped at 29.1 N for this
country-scale map, with visible Natural Earth land and a 50 m coastal buffer
removed. It is not a Jordanian territorial-water claim. Marine and land
geometry reuse the checked-in Natural Earth Saudi map source snapshots.

Cities and sights: curated WGS84 longitude, latitude. Broad landscapes and
historic districts have representative pins. The Aqaba Marine Reserve pin
uses UNESCO's marine property reference coordinate, not a shore entrance.
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1742/

Reproduction: scripts/jordan-map-source.geojson retains the mapped geometry;
public/data/jordan-map-places.json holds all names, prompts and notes.
Run node scripts/build-jordan-maps.mjs to reproduce public GeoJSON, the atlas
pack and place-name registry. Run node scripts/test-jordan-guide.cjs to verify.