Editing Emirate of Transjordan (section)

===Population===
[[File:Amman, Transjordan in 1940.jpg|thumb|right|Amman in 1940]]
With respect to the demographics, in 1924 the British stated: "No census of the population has been taken, but the figure is thought to be in the neighbourhood of 200,000, of whom some 10,000 are Circassians and Chechen; there are about 15,000 Christians and the remainder, in the main, are Moslem Arabs."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://unispal.un.org/DPA/DPR/unispal.nsf/0/A87D21F4E57F2D0F052565E8004BACE0 |title=Mandate for Palestine – Report of the Mandatory to the League of Nations (31 December 1924) |website=unispal.un.org |access-date=6 August 2017 |archive-date=8 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508143009/https://unispal.un.org/DPA/DPR/unispal.nsf/0/A87D21F4E57F2D0F052565E8004BACE0 |url-status=live }}</ref> No census was taken throughout the British mandate period, but the population was estimated to have grown to 300,000 – 350,000 by the early 1940s.<ref name="BeaumontBlake2016">{{cite book |author1=Peter Beaumont |author2=Gerald Blake |author3=J. Malcolm Wagstaff |title=The Middle East: A Geographical Study, Second Edition |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yE_7CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA408 |date=14 April 2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-24030-3 |pages=408– |access-date=6 August 2017 |archive-date=1 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801083916/https://books.google.com/books?id=yE_7CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA408 |url-status=live }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|+ March 1921 British estimate of Transjordan population
! '''Territory'''
! '''Population'''
|-
| [[Ajloun]], comprising [[Irbid]], [[Jerash]] and the Bani Hasan country and the bedouins Mafraq
| 100,000
|-
| Balqa', comprising [[Al-Salt]], [[Amman]] and [[Madaba]]
| 80,000
|-
| [[Al-Karak]], including [[Tafilah]] 
| 40,000
|-
| [[Ma'an]], [[Aqaba]], and [[Tabuk, Saudi Arabia|Tabuk]] (today in [[Saudi Arabia]])
| 10,000
|-
| '''Total'''
| '''230,000'''
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| colspan="3" span style="font-size:70%;" align=left|Estimates by [[FitzRoy Somerset, 4th Baron Raglan|FitzRoy Somerset]] and [[Frederick Peake]], 14 March 1921, CO 733/15{{efn|From "Observations on Dr. Weizmann's letter to the Secretary of State for the Colonies with Reference to Transjordania," Major Somerset and Captain Peake, 14 March 1921, CO 733/15. Wilson notes that the letter was written to refute Weizmann's 1 March 1921 letter to Churchill<ref>The Letters and Papers of Chaim Weizmann, Series A, Vol. 10, p. 161</ref> in which Weizmann argues for the inclusion of Transjordan in the Jewish National Home area: "The beautiful Trans-Jordanian plateaux... lie neglected and uninhabited, save for a few scattered settlements and a few roaming Bedouin tribes."{{sfn|Wilson|1990|p=229 (footnote 70)}}}}
|}