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Wadi as-Sir

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Jordan

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Population
180K
Coordinates
31.9500, 35.8167
Category
cities

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Wadi Al-Seer or Wadi as-Seer is a valley (wadi) west of Amman, which gave its name to one of the twenty-two districts of the Greater Amman Municipality in Jordan. It is said to have taken its name from a prehistoric queen that ruled the area, Queen Seer. The district consists of ten neighborhoods, some of which are residential, others commercial or mixed.

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