🇯🇴 Madaba is the capital city of Madaba Governorate in central Jordan, with a population of about 60,000. It is best known for its Byzantine and Umayyad mosaics, especially a large Byzantine-era mosaic map of the Holy Land. Madaba is located 30 km (19 miles) south-west of the capital Amman.
1Madaba has a population of over 84,600 people. Madaba also forms the centre of the wider Madaba Governorate which has a population of over 159,700 people.
To set up a UBI Lab for Madaba see: https://www.ubilabnetwork.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/UBILabNetwork
Madaba is a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network for Craft and Folk Art see: https://en.unesco.org/creative-cities
Twin Towns - Sister Cities Madaba has links with:
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