With about nine months to go before the 2025 Osaka world expo opens, Jordan has become the first country to have its pavilion handed over by the organizers.

A ceremony took place to mark the occasion on Thursday in Osaka City.

The Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition has been constructing foreign pavilions at the event site on the artificial island of Yumeshima.

Jordan's pavilion is among the first nine to have been completed.

It features cedar wood from the neighboring prefecture of Nara and a circular exhibition area covered with sand from Jordanian deserts.
Jordan plans to show the country's past, present and future on the screen.

The Jordanian pavilion is one of those built by the association and rented to single country. Others are offered to multiple nations for shared use.

About 70 percent of the more-than 160 participating countries and regions have chosen to use a pavilion constructed by the association.