Homs District
Homs District is a district of the Homs Governorate in central Syria. The administrative centre is the city of Homs. The district was split in 2010, when three sub-districts were separated to form the new Taldou District.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: district of Syria
- Description: district in Homs, Syria
- Also known as: “Minţaqat Ḩimş”, “Minţaqat Markaz Ḩimş”, and “Qaḑā’ Ḩimş”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shayrat Airbase.
Shayrat Airbase
Military installation
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Shayrat Airbase is home to the Syrian Air Force 50th Air Brigade located in Homs. It has two runways and around 40 hardened aircraft shelters. Shayrat Airbase is situated 4½ km south of Homs District.
Homs District
- Location: Homs Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Homs District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حمص”
- Arabic: “مركز حمص”
- Arabic: “منطقة حمص”
- Arabic: “منطقة مركز حمص”
- Armenian: “Հոմսի գավառ”
- Belarusian: “раён Хомс”
- Catalan: “districte d’Homs”
- Cebuano: “Homs District”
- Chinese: “Homs Koān”
- Chinese: “霍姆斯區”
- Estonian: “Homsi ringkond”
- French: “district de Homs”
- French: “District de Homs”
- Georgian: “ჰომსის მინტაკა”
- Greek: “Επαρχία της Χομς”
- Italian: “Distretto di Homs”
- Japanese: “ヒムシュ郡”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Homs Koān”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Homs-distriktet”
- Persian: “منطقة حمص”
- Persian: “منطقه حمص”
- Polish: “Hims”
- Russian: “район Хомс”
- Russian: “Хомс”
- Russian: “Центральный мантык Хомс”
- Scots: “Homs Destrict”
- Swedish: “Homs District”
- Swedish: “Homs”
- Turkish: “Humus İlçesi”
- Turkish: “Humus”
- Ukrainian: “Хомс (район)”
- Ukrainian: “Хомс”
- Urdu: “حمص ضلع”
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Notable Places Nearby
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