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Jordan also hosts around 1.4 million Syrian refugees who fled to the country due to the Syrian Civil War since 2011. About 31,163 Yemenis and 22,700 Libyan refugees live in Jordan as of January 2015. [4] There are thousands of Lebanese refugees who came to Jordan when civil strife and war and the 2006 war broke out in their native country.
Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Jordan" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Abazins;
Category: Demographics of Jordan. 25 languages. ... Ethnic groups in Jordan (6 C, 20 P) Expatriates in Jordan (38 C, 2 P) I. Immigrants to Jordan (9 C)
Ethnic classifications vary from country to country and are therefore not comparable across countries. While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural ...
Ethnolinguistic distribution in Central and Southwest Asia of the Altaic, Caucasian, Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) and Indo-European families.. Ethnic groups in the Middle East are ethnolinguistic groupings in the "transcontinental" region that is commonly a geopolitical term designating the intercontinental region comprising West Asia (including Cyprus) without the South Caucasus, [1] and also ...
The lists are commonly used in economics literature to compare the levels of ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious fractionalization in different countries. [1] [2] Fractionalization is the probability that two individuals drawn randomly from the country's groups are not from the same group (ethnic, religious, or whatever the criterion is).
The group's cultural identity in Jordan is mainly shaped by their self-images as a displaced people and as settlers and Muslims. Beginning in the 1950s, Circassian ethnic associations and youth clubs began holding performances centered on the theme of expulsion and emigration from the Caucasus and resettlement in Jordan, which often elicited ...
A house inside Armenian Quarter in Amman, Jordan. Armenians in Jordan are ethnic Armenians living in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.There are an estimated 3,000 Armenians living in the country today with an estimated 2,500 of them being members of the Armenian Apostolic Church, [1] and predominantly speak Western Armenian dialect. [3]