Karak Govrenorate

Karak (an aa Kerak) () is ane o the govrenorates o Jordan, locatit sooth-wast o Amman, Jordan's caipital. Its caipital is Al Karak. It borders Madaba an the Caipital Govrenorates tae the north, Ma'an Govrenorate frae the east, Tafilah Govrenorate frae the sooth, an the Dead Sea frae the wast.

 History 
The land o Karak Govrenorate wis the hame o the Kinrick o Moab, durin the first millenium B.C. Their caipital an stranghauld is believed tae be near the ceety o Al Karak, which wis kent as the Qir o Moab. 

For a brief period o time, the land o Karak Governorate came unner Persian rule, an then the Nabateans teuk control o it, till the Romans invadit the Levant region an occupied their caipital Petra.  
Efter the comin o the Byzentines, they establisht a vassal state ruled bi the Ghassanids. 
The ceety o Mu'tah wis the sicht o the first clash atween the Muslim Arabs an the Byzantine Empire at the Battle o Mu'tah in 629 AD. 

Wi the comin o the Crusaders, the Principality o Kerak wis established, efter which Kerak wis a center front atween the Ayyubids an the Crusaders. 

Efter the creation o the admeenistrative govrenorates seestem in the Hashemite Kinrick o Jordan, Kerak became a govrenorate on 16 Juin 1966 wi Waheeb Al-Bitar as its first govrenor.

Geography
The land o Karak Govrenorate is situatit alang the sooth eastren coast o the Dead Sea an the muntain chain kent as the Muntains o Moab. Wadi Mujib biblically kent as Arnon River flows through the muntains o Karak Govrenorate an ends in the Dead Sea. The ceeties in the govrenorate are locatit at elevations rangin frae ower 1000 meters abuin sea level in the Sooth Mazar Depairtment tae 800 meters abuin sea level in the northren depairtments tae aboot 350 meters belaw sea level at Gour Al Safi Depairtment.  

 Demographics 
In the year 2004, accordin tae the Jordan Naitional Census o that year, the population o the Karak govrenorate wis 204,185 , i.e. 4% o the population o Jordan. The male-tae-female ratio wis 50.6 tae 49.4 , Jordanian citizens made up 95.42% Amang the Jordanian citizens the male-tae-female ratio wis 50.38 tae 49.62. O the non-Jordanians, the male-tae-female ratio wis 55.19 tae 44.81. The urban population constitutit 34.78% o the population, while 65.22% o the population o Karak Govrenorate is considered rural.  The estimatit population as o 2009 is 239,000. http://www.sabeq-jordan.org/SABEQ_Public/sabeq_public_master_Arabic.aspx?Site_Id=5&Page_Id=759  Al-Karak

Education
Mu'tah University is the anerlie university in the govrenorate, locatit in the ceety o Mu'tah, an is ane o the lairgest universities in Jordan bi number o students . 

Admeenistrative Depairtments
Karak Govrenorate is dividit intae 10 depairtments accordin tae airticle 7 o the 46t Admeenistrative Diveesions Seestem o the year 2000:

 Departments of Kerak Governorate by population (2004 census)90px|Capital Department Caipital Depairtment 
90px|Sauth Mazar DepartmentSooth Mazar Depairtment
90px|South Aghwar DepartmentSooth Aghwar Depairtment
90px|Qaser DepartmentQasr Depairtment
90px|Gour Al-Mazra'a DepairtmentGour Al-Mazra'a Depairtment  Depairtment Arabic Name Auries Population  Admeenistrative Center 
90px|Faqou' DepartmentFaqou' Depairtment
90px|Aii DepartmentAii Depairtment
90px|Moab DepartmentMoab Depairtment
90px|Qatraneh DepartmentQatraneh Depairtment
90px|Moujeb DepartmentMoujeb Depairtment 1  Caipital Depairtment (Al-Qasabah)  لواء قصبة الكرك includes the ceety o Al Karak an 35 ither touns an veellages  64,850  Al Karak  2  Sooth Mazar Depairtment  لواء المزار الجنوبي includes 30 touns an veelages  57,191  Mu'tah  3  Sooth Aghwar Depairtment  لواء الاغوار الجنوبية includes seiven touns an veelages  32,446  Safi 4  Al-Qasr Depairtment لواء القصر includes nine touns an veelages  20,860  Rabba  5  Gour Al-Mazra'a Depairtment  قضاء غور المزرعة includes sax touns an veelages  12,743  Gour Al-Mazra'a 6  Faqou' Depairtment  لواء فقوع includes sax touns an veelages  12,178  Faqou' 7  Aii Depairtment  لواء عي includes fower touns an veelages  9,711  Aii 8  Moab Depairtment  قضاء مؤاب includes five touns an veelages  9,692  Husseiniya  9  Qatraneh Depairtment  لواء القطرانة includes fower touns an veelages  6,949 Qatraneh 10  Moujeb Depairtment  قضاء الموجب includes five touns an veelages  5,818  Mugheer Source: وزارة الداخلية - الأردن Jordanian ministry of interior 


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Category:Govrenorates o Jordan