Kissin
Kissin is a village in northern Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located north of Homs. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Kissin had a population of 2,189 in the 2004 census.- Type: Locality
- Description: village in Homs, Syria
- Also known as: “Kīssīn”, “Kissin, Syria”, and “Kissine”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Umm Sharshouh and Taldou.
Umm Sharshouh
Village
Photo: Gheyas1969, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Umm Sharshouh is a village, which is situated 7 km southeast of Kissin.
Taldou
Town
Taldou is a town in the Houla region of northern Syria, north of Homs in the Homs Governorate. Nearby towns include Burj al-Qa'i to the east, Tallaf to the northeast, Kafr Laha and Tell Dahab to the north, Qarmas and Maryamin to the northwest, al-Taybah al-Gharbiyah and al-Shinyah to the west, Kabu to the southwest, Sharqliyya to the south and Ghur Gharbiyah to the southeast. Taldou is situated 9 km west of Kissin.
Kissin
- Categories: village and populated place in Syria
- Location: Homs Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Thai—“Kissin” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيسين”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيسين”
- Persian: “کیسین”
- Polish: “Kissin”
- Thai: “กีซีน”
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