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Industrial City of Sahab

human settlement in Jordan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ11544696 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Industrial City of Sahab is an industrial area in Jordan, similar to the Amman Industrial Estate and King Abdullah Industrial City. It is located within the city of Sahab. Its total area comprises 2.5 million square meters.

By mid-1998, the Industrial City of Sahab accommodated 354 medium and small industries employing more than 13,700 workers. Within the Industrial City of Sahab, there are 78 foreign, Arab and joint-venture industries. Investors include the Jordan Industrial Estate Corporation who developed an area of 202,000 square meters adjacent to the Estate. The city contains several clothing factories.

There is a large public art mural of a swan in the city.

There is evidence of heavy metal pollution in the soils of the city.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Industrial, City and Sahab can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Industrial City of Sahab” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.