Karameh Border Crossing
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Karameh Border Crossing (Arabic: مركز حدود الكرامة) is the only border crossing between Jordan
Jordan
Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...

 and Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

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On the Iraqi side it is called the Turaibil Border Compound (Arabic: مجمع طريبيل الحدودي).
The crossing served about 800,000 passengers in the year 2010 according to Al-Arab Al-Yawm
Al-Arab Al-Yawm (newspaper)
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 newspaper. It connects the Jordanian town of Ruwaished
Ruwaished
Ruwaished is a town in the far east of Jordan. Administratively it belongs to Mafraq Governorate. It has a population of 14,400 . Ruwaished is the farthest Jordanian settlement to the east...

 to the Iraqi town of Turaibil
Tarbil
Tarbil is a city in the Al Anbar province of Iraq....

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The border crossing is about 320 Km (199 miles) from Jordan's capital Amman
Amman
Amman is the capital of Jordan. It is the country's political, cultural and commercial centre and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. The Greater Amman area has a population of 2,842,629 as of 2010. The population of Amman is expected to jump from 2.8 million to almost...

 and 575 Km (357 miles) from the Iraqi capital Baghdad
Baghdad
Baghdad is the capital of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Governorate. The population of Baghdad in 2011 is approximately 7,216,040...

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