Ash-Shunah al-Janubiyah الشونة الجنوبية | |
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Town | |
| Coordinates: 北緯31度54分53秒 東経35度36分48秒 / 31.9148°N 35.6133°E / 31.9148; 35.6133 | |
| PAL | 146/208 |
| Country | |
| Population (2015[1]) | |
• Total | 2,887 |
Ash-Shunah al-Janubiyah (Arabic: الشونة الجنوبية), also Shoonah Janoobiyah, South Shuna or Southern Shouneh, etc.,[2] is a populated place in Balqa Governorate, Jordan, in the eastern Jordan Valley, not far from the place where the Jordan flows into the Dead Sea. The town stretches along the Jordan Valley Highway (HW 65) north of the intersection with Route 437 (King Hussein Bridge Road), east of the Allenby (or King Hussein) Bridge and border crossing. It is the seat of the Ash-Shunah al-Janubiyah District.
South Shuna is the location of the cultural heritage site known as Shunet Nimrin / Shunat Nimrin.[2] The Tell Nimrin archaeological site is within South Shuna.[3][4]
There is a Monument to the Unknown Soldier to commemorate the victory at the Battle of Karameh.

Shunah means "barn",[5]janub is Arabic for "south",[6] and al-janubiyah means "southern". Therefore, Ash-Shunah al-Janubiyah is often rendered in English as "South Shuna",[7] or "Southern Shuna"[8] with another Shunah town at the opposite, northern end of the Jordan Valley being known as North Shuna.[7]
シュナはシュネ、シュナとも綴られる。[ 2 ]冠詞「al」は特定の場合に後続の子音と同化され、その発音は「ash」(綴りは「esh」 )となる。 [ 9 ] al-Shunahは「ash-Shunah/esh-Shuneh」となる。便宜上、地名の冒頭の定冠詞は省略され、ここでは単に「シュナ・アル・ジャヌビヤ」となる。[ 2 ]
南シュナは歴史的にはシュナット・ニムリンとしても知られています。[ 2 ]ニムリンは近隣のテル・ニムリンと、テル・ニムリンの下流にあるワディ・ニムリンと呼ばれるワジの下流部分、およびテルの上流にあるワディ・シュエイブの名前です。