Latakia Governorate

Latakia Governorate, officially known as Lattakia Governorate, is one of the fourteen governorates of . It is situated in northwestern Syria, bordering 's to the north, and to the east, to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west.
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  • Type: State with 1,890,000 residents
  • Description: governorate of Syria
  • Also known as: “Al Lādhiqīyah”, “Al Ladhiqiyah eskualdea”, “Gobernacion de Latakia”, “Latakia”, “Latakia (Siria)”, “Latakijos gubernija”, “Lattaquié”, “Lazeqiye (parêzgeh)”, “Lazkiye Valiliği”, “Muḩāfaz̧at al Lādhiqīyah”, “SY-LA”, “Tỉnh Latakia”, “Вилояти Латакиа”, “اللاذقيه”, “پارێزگای لازەقیە”, “مُحافظة اللاذقية|”, “லடாகியா மாகாணம்”, and “ラディキーヤ県”
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Latakia Governorate

Latitude
35.5799° or 35° 34′ 48″ north
Longitude
35.9773° or 35° 58′ 38″ east
Population
1,890,000
Elevation
210 metres (689 feet)
Open location code
8G7QHXHG+WW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13296425924
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
173578
Wiki­data ID
Q233236
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Latakia Governorate” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ላታኪያ”
  • Arabic: “اللاذقية”
  • Arabic: “محافظة اللاذقية”
  • Armenian: “Լաթակիայի մարզ”
  • Asturian: “Gobernación de Latakia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əl-Laziqiyyə mühafəzəsi”
  • Basque: “Latakia eskualdea”
  • Belarusian: “Латакія”
  • Bengali: “লাতাকিয়া”
  • Bulgarian: “Латакия”
  • Catalan: “governació de Latakia”
  • Catalan: “Governació de Latakia”
  • Cebuano: “Latakia Governorate”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای لازقیە”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای لازەقیا”
  • Chinese: “拉塔基亚省”
  • Chinese: “拉塔基亞省”
  • Croatian: “Guvernat Latakija”
  • Croatian: “Latakija (pokrajina)”
  • Croatian: “Latakija”
  • Czech: “Guvernorát Latákia”
  • Czech: “Guvernorát Latákie”
  • Czech: “Latákie”
  • Dutch: “Latakia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “محافظة اللاذقيه”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Latakia”
  • Finnish: “Latakian maakunta”
  • Finnish: “Lattakian maakunta”
  • French: “gouvernorat de Lattaquié”
  • French: “Gouvernorat de Lattaquié”
  • Galician: “Gobernación de Latakia”
  • Georgian: “ლათაკიის მუჰაფაზა”
  • Georgian: “ლატაკიის მუჰაფაზა”
  • German: “Gouvernement Latakia”
  • Greek: “Κυβερνείο της Λατάκειας”
  • Greek: “Λατάκεια”
  • Hausa: “Latakia”
  • Hebrew: “לטקיה”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז לטקיה”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז לָטָקִיָה”
  • Hindi: “लातक़िया प्रान्त”
  • Hungarian: “Latakia kormányzóság”
  • Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Latakia”
  • Interlingua: “Latakia”
  • Italian: “Governatorato di Laodicea”
  • Italian: “governatorato di Latakia”
  • Japanese: “ラタキア県”
  • Javanese: “Latakia”
  • Kazakh: “Латакия”
  • Kirghiz: “Латакия”
  • Korean: “라타키아주”
  • Kurdish: “Parêzgeha Lazeqiyeyê”
  • Lithuanian: “Latakijos muchafaza”
  • Malay: “Kegabenoran Latakia”
  • Malay: “Latakia”
  • Mazanderani: “لاذقیه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Latakia Séng”
  • Northern Frisian: “Latakia (Guwernement)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Latakia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lattakia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lattakia guvernement”
  • Norwegian: “Latakia”
  • Norwegian: “Lattakia”
  • Oromo: “Latakia”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਤਾਕੀਆ”
  • Persian: “استان لاذقیه”
  • Polish: “Latakia”
  • Portuguese: “Latakia”
  • Portuguese: “Lataquia”
  • Pushto: “اللاذقية”
  • Romanian: “Guvernoratul Latakia”
  • Russian: “Латакия о́бласть”
  • Russian: “Латакия”
  • Russian: “Мухафаза Латакия”
  • Scots: “Latakia Govrenorate”
  • Serbian: “Латакија (покрајина)”
  • Serbian: “Латакија”
  • Sindhi: “لاذقيه گورنريٽ”
  • Slovenian: “Guvernat Latakija”
  • Somali: “Latakia”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لاذقیه اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Gobernación de Latakia”
  • Swahili: “Latakia”
  • Swedish: “Latakia”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Loziqija”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Лозиқия”
  • Tamil: “அல்லாதகியா ஆளுநரகம்”
  • Tamil: “லடாகியா ஆளுநரகம்”
  • Tatar: “Латакия”
  • Thai: “เขตผู้ว่าการอัลลาษิกียะฮ์”
  • Turkish: “Lazkiye İli”
  • Turkish: “Lazkiye”
  • Ukrainian: “Латакія”
  • Urdu: “محافظہ اللاذقیہ”
  • Urdu: “محافظہ لاذقیہ”
  • Uzbek: “Latakiya”
  • Uzbek: “Loziqiya muhofazasi”
  • Vietnamese: “Latakia”
  • Western Armenian: “Լաթաքիոյ մարզ”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ اللاذقیہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “拉塔基亚省”
  • Yue Chinese: “拉塔基亞 (省)”
  • Yue Chinese: “拉塔基亞”
  • Yue Chinese: “拉塔基亞省”

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