Amman is a city in the Southern Levant. It is the capital and the largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. …Amman is a city in the Southern Levant. It is the capital and the largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of four million as of 2021, it is Jordan's primate city and is the largest city in the Levant region, the fifth-largest city in the Arab world, and the tenth-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East.