Mecca Region

Mecca Province, officially Makkah Province, is one of the 13 provinces of Saudi Arabia. It is the third-largest province by area at 153,128 km2 and the second most populous with 7,769,994 inhabitants as of 2022.
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  • Type: province of Saudi Arabia with 8,560,000 residents
  • Description: province of Saudi Arabia
  • Also known as: “Emirate Of Makkah”, “Emirate of Mecca Region”, “Makkah”, “Makkah al-Mukarrammah Province”, “Makkah Province”, “Makkah Region”, “Mecca”, “Mecca Province”, and “Minţaqat Makkah”
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Mecca Region

Latitude
21.6243° or 21° 37′ 27″ north
Longitude
41.2042° or 41° 12′ 15″ east
Population
8,560,000
Elevation
1,137 metres (3,730 feet)
Open location code
7HH3J6F3+PM
Geo­Names ID
104514
Wiki­data ID
Q234167
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Mecca Region” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Provinca Meka”
  • Amharic: “ሜካ ክልል”
  • Arabic: “إمارة منطقة مكة المكرمة”
  • Arabic: “امارة مكة المكرمة”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة مكة المكرمة”
  • Arabic: “مكة المكرّمة”
  • Arabic: “منطقة مكة المكرمة”
  • Arabic: “مِـنْـطَـقَـة مَـكَّـة الـمُـكَـرَّمَـة”
  • Arabic: “منطقه مكه المكرمه”
  • Armenian: “Մեքքայի շրջան”
  • Avaric: “Макка”
  • Azerbaijani: “Məkkə bölgəsi”
  • Balinese: “Propinsi Mekah”
  • Banjar: “Lalawangan Makkah”
  • Bashkir: “Мәккә”
  • Belarusian: “Мекка”
  • Belarusian: “Мэка”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Мека”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Мекка”
  • Bengali: “মক্কা অঞ্চল”
  • Catalan: “la Meca”
  • Catalan: “Regió de la Meca”
  • Cebuano: “Makkah Province”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای مەککە”
  • Chechen: “Маккин провинци”
  • Chinese: “Makka Tōa-khu”
  • Chinese: “麥加省”
  • Chinese: “麦加省”
  • Czech: “Mekka”
  • Czech: “Provincie Mekka”
  • Danish: “Makkah Region”
  • Dutch: “Mekka”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “منطقه مكه”
  • Esperanto: “Emirlando Mekao”
  • Esperanto: “Emirlando Mekko”
  • Esperanto: “Regiono Mekko”
  • Estonian: “Meka provints”
  • Finnish: “Makkah”
  • French: “La Mecque”
  • French: “Makkah”
  • Galician: “Provincia da Meca”
  • Georgian: “მექას პროვინცია”
  • German: “Makka al-Mukarrama”
  • German: “Mekka-Region”
  • German: “Mekka”
  • German: “Provinz Mekka”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία Μακά”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία της Μέκκας”
  • Gujarati: “મક્કાહ પ્રદેશ”
  • Hausa: “yankin Makka”
  • Hausa: “Yankin Makka”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז מכה”
  • Hindi: “मक्का क्षेत्र”
  • Hindi: “मक्का प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “मक्काह अल-मुकर्रमा प्रान्त”
  • Hungarian: “Mekka tartomány”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Makkah”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Mekkah”
  • Irish: “Cúige Mheice”
  • Italian: “La Mecca”
  • Italian: “Makka”
  • Italian: “Makkah”
  • Italian: “provincia della Mecca”
  • Italian: “Provincia della Mecca”
  • Japanese: “マッカ州”
  • Japanese: “メッカ州”
  • Javanese: “Provinsi Mekkah”
  • Javanese: “Wilayah Makkah”
  • Kannada: “ಮಕಾಹ್ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Kazakh: “Мекке облысы”
  • Kirghiz: “Макка Чөлөө”
  • Korean: “마카 주”
  • Korean: “메카주”
  • Latvian: “Mekas mintaka”
  • Lithuanian: “Mekos emyratas”
  • Macedonian: “Мека”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Makkah”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Mekah”
  • Malayalam: “മക്ക പ്രവിശ്യ”
  • Maltese: “Provinċja ta‘ Mekka”
  • Manipuri: “ꯃꯦꯛꯀꯥ ꯄꯅꯥ”
  • Marathi: “मक्का प्रांत”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Makka Séng”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mekka-regionen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mekka-regionen”
  • Norwegian: “Mekka”
  • Oromo: “Naannoo Makka”
  • Ossetian: “Меккæ (провинци)”
  • Ossetian: “Меккæ”
  • Pampanga: “Makkah”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੱਕਾ ਸੂਬਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੱਕਾ ਖੇਤਰ”
  • Persian: “استان مکه”
  • Persian: “منطقه مکه”
  • Polish: “Mekka”
  • Portuguese: “Makkah”
  • Portuguese: “Meca”
  • Portuguese: “Região de Meca”
  • Pushto: “د مکې سیمه”
  • Pushto: “مکه ولايت”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Mecca”
  • Russian: “Мекка (административный округ)”
  • Russian: “Мекка (провинция)”
  • Russian: “Мекка”
  • Scots: “Makkah Province”
  • Scots: “Mecca Province”
  • Serbian: “Мека”
  • Sindhi: “مڪہ صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “මක්කම ප්රාන්තය”
  • Slovak: “Mekka”
  • Slovenian: “Meka”
  • Slovenian: “Provinca Meka”
  • Somali: “Gobolka Makkah”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مکه اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de La Meca”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Makkah”
  • Spanish: “Región de La Meca”
  • Sundanese: “Propinsi Makkah”
  • Swahili: “Eneo la Makkah”
  • Swedish: “Mecka”
  • Swedish: “Mekka”
  • Swedish: “Mintaqat Makka al-Mukarrama”
  • Sylheti: “ꠝꠇ꠆ꠇꠣ ꠅꠘ꠆ꠌꠟ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠝꠇ꠆ꠇꠣ ꠙꠖꠦꠡ”
  • Tajik: “вилоят”
  • Tajik: “минтақа”
  • Tajik: “минтақаи Макка”
  • Tajik: “Минтақаи Макка”
  • Tamil: “மக்கஹ் பகுதி”
  • Tamil: “மக்கா பிராந்தியம்”
  • Tamil: “மெக்கா பிராந்தியம்”
  • Tatar: “Мәккә провинциясе”
  • Tatar: “Мәккә регионы”
  • Telugu: “మక్కా ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “แคว้นมักกะฮ์”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดมักกะฮ์”
  • Turkish: “Mekke Bölgesi”
  • Uighur: “مەككە ئۆلكىسى”
  • Ukrainian: “Мекка”
  • Ukrainian: “Провінція Мекка”
  • Urdu: “Hijaz”
  • Urdu: “الحجاز”
  • Urdu: “المکہ علاقہ”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ الحجاز”
  • Uzbek: “Makka minaqasi”
  • Uzbek: “Makka viloyati”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực Makkah”
  • Vietnamese: “Makkah”
  • Volapük: “Mäkkiän”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Makkah”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ مکہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “麦加省”

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