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Where is Petra located?

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The ruins of the ancient city Petra are in southwest Jordan. Petra was built on a terrace, pierced from east to west by the Wadi Mūsā (the Valley of Moses). Petra is called in Arabic Baṭrā, and it was once a center of an Arab kingdom in Hellenistic and Roman times,