Basta (Arabic: بسطة, romanized: Basṭa) is a village in Ma'an Governorate, southern Jordan.

It is located about 36 kilometres (22 mi) southeast of Petra, at an altitude of 1,460 metres (4,790 ft).

[1] As of 2012[update], it had a population of 1,491 people,[2] compared to 461 in the 1961 census.

[3] The village gives its name to a nearby archaeological site, the ruins of a prehistoric settlement dating to around 7000 BCE and one of earliest known places in the world that had a settled population who practised agriculture.

[4] This Jordanian location article is a stub.