
The king exercises his executive authority through the prime meenisters an the Cooncil o Meenisters, or cabinet. The reignin monarch is the chief executive an the commander-in-chief o the airmed forces. The Hashemite Kinrick o Jordan is a constitutional monarchy wi representative govrenment. unner Breetish rule whilk led tae Jordan's establishment as an autonomous state. Syne the seivent century C.E., the area haes been unner the primary rule o Muslim an Arab cultur, wi the exceptions briefly for the area in wastren Jordan that wis pairt o the Crusader Kinrick o Jerusalem, an for the hale region in the early-mid twintiet century C.E. Cultur faurer wast left their mark an aa, like the Macedonian/ Greek/ Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, an Ottoman Turkis empires. The lands o Jordan wur for a time unner the rule o Pharaonic Egyp, componed pairt o the greater Kinrick o Israel (includin the later Judaean Kinrick, Hasmonaen Kinrick o Israel an Herodian Dynasty), an notably, the region o Jordan gied birth tae the Nabataean ceevilisation an aw, whilk left rich airchaeological remains at Petra, ane o the New Seiven Wonders o the Warld locatit in the Ma'an Govrenorate. Ither ceevilizations possessin poleetical sovereignty an influence in Jordan wur: Akkadian, Assyrian, Israelite/ Judean, Babylonian, an Persian empires.

Throu its history, Jordan haes seen a thrang o ceevilizations, includin sic auncient near eastren anes as the Canaanites an later ither Semitic fowks lik the Edomites, an the Moabites. Housomeivver, the north-wastren pairt o Jordan is pairt o the Fertile Crescent. Hantle o Jordan is kivered bi the Arabian Desert. Jordan's anerlie port is at its soothren tip, at the Gulf o Aqaba, whilk is skared wi Israel, Egyp, an Saudi Arabie. It haes mairches wi Saudi Arabie sooth-eastlins, Iraq eastlins, Sirie norlins an Israel an Palestine tae the wast, sharin control o the Dead Sea. Jordan (/ˈdʒɔrdən/), offeecially the Hashemite Kinrick o Jordan, an forby kent as the JK (short for The Jordanian Kinrick), is a kinrick on the East Bank o the River Jordan in Wastren Asie.
