Editing Emirate of Transjordan (section)

===Borders===
The southern border between Transjordan and Arabia was considered strategic for Transjordan in order to avoid being [[Landlocked country|landlocked]], with intended access to the sea via the [[Port of Aqaba]]. The southern region of [[Ma'an Governorate|Ma'an]]-[[Aqaba Governorate|Aqaba]], a large area with a small population of just 10,000,{{sfn|Wilson|1990|loc=p. 229 (footnote 70)}} was [[Occupation of Ma'an|administered by OETA East (later the Arab Kingdom of Syria, and then Mandatory Transjordan) and claimed by the Kingdom of Hejaz]].{{sfn|Leatherdale|1983|pp=41–42}}{{sfn|Baker|1979|p=220}} In OETA East, Faisal had appointed a [[kaymakam]] (or sub-governor) at Ma'an, whereas the kaymakam at Aqaba, who "disregarded both Husein in Mecca and Feisal in Damascus with impunity" had been instructed by Hussein to extend his authority to Ma'an.{{sfn|Leatherdale|1983|pp=41–42}} This technical dispute did not rise to any form of open struggle, and the Kingdom of Hejaz was to take de facto control after Faisal's administration was defeated by the French.{{efn|Baker explained that "The British had moved in to take advantage of the situation created by Husain's presence in Aqaba and pressed for the annexation of the Hejaz Vilayet of Ma'an to the mandated territory of Transjordan. This disputed area, containing Maan, Aqaba and Petra, had originally been part of the Damascus Vilayet during Ottoman times, though boundaries had never been very precise. It was seized first by the Army as it pushed north from Aqaba after 1917 and had then been included in O.E.T.A. East and, later, in Faisal's kingdom of Syria. Husain, however, had never accepted this and had stationed a Vali alongside Faisal's administrator, but the two men had worked in harmony so that the dispute never came to an open struggle. After Faisal's exile, the French mandate boundary had excluded this area and the British then considered it to be part of the Syrian rump which became Transjordan, though nothing was done to realise that claim, so Hejaz administration held de facto control. Britain had, however, made its position clear in August 1924 when it cabled Bullard: "Please inform King Hussein officially that H.M.G. cannot acquiesce in his claim to concern himself directly with the administration of any portion of the territory of Transjordan for which H.M.G. are responsible under the mandate for Palestine""{{sfn|Baker|1979|p=220}}}} Following the 1924–25 [[Saudi conquest of Hejaz]], Hussein's army fled to the Ma'an region, which was then formally announced as annexed by Abdullah's Transjordan. Ibn Saud privately agreed to respect this position in an exchange of letters at the time of the [[Treaty of Jeddah (1927)|1927 Treaty of Jeddah]].{{sfn|Wilson|1990|p=100}}

The [[Negev]] region was added to Palestine on 10 July 1922, having been conceded by British representative John Philby "in Trans-Jordan's name".{{efn| Biger described this meeting as follows: "Sovereignty over the Arava, from the south of the Dead Sea to Aqaba, was also discussed. Philby agreed, in Trans-Jordan's name, to give up the western bank of Wadi Arava (and thus all of the Negev area). Nevertheless, a precise borderline was still not determined along the territories of Palestine and Trans-Jordan. Philby's relinquishment of the Negev was necessary, because the future of this area was uncertain. In a discussion regarding the southern boundary, the Egyptian aspiration to acquire the Negev area was presented. On the other hand the southern part of Palestine belonged, according to one of the versions, to the sanjak (district) of Ma'an within the vilayet (province) of Hejaz. King Hussein of Hijaz demanded to receive this area after claiming that a transfer action, to add it to the vilayet of Syria (A-Sham) was supposed to be done in 1908. It is not clear whether this action was completed. Philby claimed that Emir Abdullah had his father's permission to negotiate over the future of the sanjak of Ma'an, which was actually ruled by him, and that he could therefore 'afford to concede' the area west of the Arava in favour of Palestine. This concession was made following British pressure and against the background of the demands of the Zionist Organization for direct contact between Palestine and the Red Sea. It led to the inclusion of the Negev triangle in Palestine's territory, although this area was not considered as part of the country in the many centuries that preceded the British occupation."{{sfn|Biger|2004|p=181; Biger references 10 July 1922 meeting notes, file 2.179, CZA}}}} Abdullah made a request for the Negev to be added to Transjordan in late 1922, and again in 1925, but this was rejected.{{sfn|Biger|2004|p=184}}

The location of the Eastern border between Transjordan and Iraq was considered strategic with respect to the proposed construction of what became the [[Kirkuk–Haifa oil pipeline]].{{sfn|Wilson|1990|p=100}} It was first set out on 2 December 1922, in a treaty to which Transjordan was not party to – the [[Uqair Protocol of 1922|Uqair Protocol]] between Iraq and Nejd.{{sfn|Amadouny|2012|p=132-133}} It described the western end of the Iraq-Nejd boundary as "the Jebel Anazan situated in the neighbourhood of the intersection of latitude [[32nd parallel north|32 degrees north]] longitude [[39th meridian east|39 degrees east]] where the Iraq-Najd boundary terminated", thereby implicitly confirming this as the point at which the Iraq-Nejd boundary became the Transjordan-Nejd boundary.{{sfn|Amadouny|2012|p=132-133}} This followed a proposal from Lawrence in January 1922 that Transjordan be extended to include [[Wadi Sirhan]] as far south as [[Dumat al-Jandal|al-Jauf]], in order to protect Britain's route to India and contain Ibn Saud.{{sfn|Amadouny|2012|p=132-133; Amadouny cites Lawrence, 'Transjordan-Extension of Territory', 5 January 1922, CO 733 33}}

France transferred the District of Ramtha from Syria in 1921.<ref>{{cite book |author=Michael R. Fischbach |title=State, Society, and Land in Jordan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_WAgDMWsyb8C&pg=PA66 |year=2000 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=90-04-11912-4 |pages=66– |access-date=25 May 2019 |archive-date=29 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929035410/https://books.google.com/books?id=_WAgDMWsyb8C&pg=PA66 |url-status=live }}</ref>