Editing Geography of Jordan (section)

== Area and boundaries ==
'''Area:'''
:*total: {{convert|89,342|km2|sqmi|0}}
:**''country rank in the world'': 110th
:*land: {{convert|88,802|km2|sqmi|0}}
:*water: {{convert|540|km2|sqmi|0}}

'''Area comparative'''
:* Australia comparative: slightly more than {{sfrac|1|3}} larger than [[Tasmania]]
:* Canada comparative: approximately {{sfrac|1|1|4}} times the size of [[New Brunswick]]
:* United Kingdom comparative: approximately {{sfrac|1|7}} larger than [[Scotland]]
:* United States comparative: approximately the size of [[Maine]]
:* EU comparative: approximately the size of [[Portugal]]
'''Land boundaries:'''
:*''total:'' {{convert|1,744|km|mi|0}}
:*''border countries:''
:**[[Iraq]] {{convert|179|km|mi|0}}
:**[[Israel]] {{convert|307|km|mi|0}}
:**[[Saudi Arabia]] {{convert|731|km|mi|0}}
:**[[Syria]] {{convert|379|km|mi|0}}
:**[[West Bank]] {{convert|148|km|mi|0}}

'''Coastline:''' {{convert|26|km|mi|0}}
:*''note:''
:**Jordan also borders the Dead Sea, for {{convert|50|km}}

'''Maritime claims:'''
:*''territorial sea:''
:**{{convert|3|nmi|3|abbr=on|lk=in}}

'''Elevation extremes:'''
:*lowest point: [[Dead Sea]] {{convert|&minus;408|m|ft|0}}
:*highest point: [[Jabal Umm ad Dami]] {{convert|1,854|m|ft|0}}
===Boundaries===
[[File:Jordan Topography.png|thumb|350px|[[Borders of Jordan]].]]
Except for small sections of the borders with Israel and Syria, Jordan's international boundaries do not follow well-defined natural features of the terrain. The country's boundaries were established by various international agreements and with the exception of the border with Israel, none was in dispute in early 1989.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}}

Jordan's boundaries with Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia do not have the special significance that the border with Israel does; these borders have not always hampered tribal nomads in their movements, yet for a few groups borders did separate them from traditional grazing areas and delimited by a series of agreements between the United Kingdom and the government of what eventually became Saudi Arabia) was first formally defined in the Hadda Agreement of 1925.<ref name="IBS60">{{citation|url=https://fall.fsulawrc.com/collection/LimitsinSeas/IBS060.pdf|title=International Boundary Study No. 60 – Jordan-Saudi Arabia Boundary|date=30 December 1965|access-date=2 April 2020|archive-date=21 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021095957/https://fall.fsulawrc.com/collection/LimitsinSeas/IBS060.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[File:Jordan frontiers-en.svg|left|upright=1.2|thumb|Map of 1965 land swap between Jordan and Saudi Arabia]]
In 1965 Jordan and Saudi Arabia concluded an agreement that realigned and delimited the boundary. Jordan gained 19 kilometers of land on the Gulf of Aqaba and 6,000 square kilometers of territory in the interior, and 7,000 square kilometers of Jordanian-administered, landlocked territory was ceded to Saudi Arabia.<ref>{{cite web |title=International Boundary Study, No. 60 – December 30, 1965, Jordan – Saudi Arabia Boundary |url=https://fall.law.fsu.edu/collection/LimitsinSeas/IBS060.pdf |publisher=US Department of State |access-date=30 January 2019 |archive-date=31 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190131040333/https://fall.law.fsu.edu/collection/LimitsinSeas/IBS060.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>  The new boundary enabled Jordan to expand its port facilities and established a zone in which the two parties agreed to share petroleum revenues equally if oil were discovered. The agreement also protected the pasturage and watering rights of nomadic tribes inside the exchanged territories.