Al-Mazar Al-Shamali or Northern Al-Mazar ( ar, المزار الشمالي) is a

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in the

Irbid Governorate Irbid or Irbed ( ar, إربد) is a governorate in Jordan, located north of Amman, the country's capital. The capital of the governorate is the city of Irbid. The governorate has the second largest population in Jordan after Amman Governorate, an ...

of north-western

Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...

. Located 15 km south-west of

Irbid Irbid ( ar, إِربِد), known in ancient times as Arabella or Arbela (Άρβηλα in Ancient Greek language, Ancient Greek), is the capital and largest city of the Irbid Governorate. It also has the second largest metropolitan population in ...

it has a population of approximately 20,000 people and the major family (tribe or clan) is AL-Shorman. The region is a range of high series mountains that reach a height approximately 780 meters above the sea level. The main basic characteristics of the region is that it is surrounded by the many forest extended to hundreds kilometers. The forest has many trees such as

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s and pistacia and pine. Also the region rely on basic agricultural crops: wheat, barley, and also on some of the fruit trees such as peaches, apricots, almonds, etc. The olive tree is one of the most important products in the region in addition to grapes. Al-Mazar Al-Shamali is the southern parts of

Governorate with its high mountains of astonishing landscape, which are adjacent to

Ajloun Ajloun ( ar, عجلون, ''‘Ajlūn''), also spelled Ajlun, is the capital town of the Ajloun Governorate, a hilly town in the north of Jordan, located 76 kilometers (around 47 miles) north west of Amman. It is noted for its impressive ruins of t ...

Mountains. It consists of the following 9 areas or districts: Al-mazar Al-shamali, Enbah, Dayr Yousef, Rhaba, Zobia, Juhfiya, Samad, Zaatarah, Habaka, and Hofa.

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Populated places in Irbid Governorate {{Jordan-geo-stub