Al Khums
Al-Khums or Khoms is a city, port and the de jure capital of the Murqub District on the Mediterranean coast of Libya with an estimated population of around 202,000.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Asybaris01, Public domain.
- Type: City with 104,000 residents
- Description: Libya
- Also known as: “Al-Khums”, “El Choms”, “Khoms”, “Khomsor”, “Khums”, “Labdah”, and “Lebda”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Leptis Magna and Leptis Magna Museum.
Leptis Magna
Leptis Magna, also spelled Lepcis Magna, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa in the Tripolitania region of Libya.
Leptis Magna Museum
Museum
Leptis Magna Museum is an archaeological museum located in Khoms, Tripolitania, Libya. It contains evidence of people of different origins that once inhabited the city of leptis magna, including Berber, Punic, Phoenicians and Romans.
Temple of Hercules, Leptis Magna
Historic building
Photo: SashaCoachman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Temple of Hercules, Leptis Magna is a historic building.
Al Khums
- Categories: human settlement, municipality of Libya, and locality
- Location: Murqub District, Libya, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
32.6522° or 32° 39′ 8″ northLongitude
14.268° or 14° 16′ 5″ eastPopulation
104,000Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 277399357OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Al Khums” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الخمس”
- Arabic: “الخُمس”
- Arabic: “ڨفصة”
- Arabic: “مدينة ڨفصه”
- Azerbaijani: “Əl-Xüms”
- Basque: “Khums”
- Belarusian: “Аль-Хумс”
- Belarusian: “Хомс”
- Belarusian: “Хумс”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Хумс”
- Bengali: “কোমাস”
- Bulgarian: “Хумс”
- Catalan: “Al Khums”
- Catalan: “Homs”
- Cebuano: “Al Khums”
- Chinese: “胡姆斯”
- Czech: “Khoms”
- Danish: “Al Khums (Khums)”
- Dutch: “Al Khums”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الخمس”
- Esperanto: “Al Ĥums”
- Finnish: “Al Khums”
- French: “Gafsa”
- French: “Khoms”
- Georgian: “ალ-ხუმსი”
- Georgian: “ელ-ხომსი”
- Georgian: “ელ-ხუმსი”
- German: “Al Khums”
- German: “al-Chums”
- German: “Al-Chums”
- German: “Khoms”
- Greek: “Αλ Κουμς”
- Gujarati: “ખમ્સ”
- Hebrew: “אל-ח’ומס”
- Hebrew: “אל-חומס”
- Hebrew: “אל-כומס”
- Hebrew: “כומס”
- Hindi: “खाम्स”
- Indonesian: “Al Khums”
- Indonesian: “Khoms”
- Irish: “al-Khums”
- Italian: “Al Khums”
- Italian: “al-H̱ums”
- Italian: “al-Khums”
- Italian: “Homs”
- Japanese: “フムス”
- Kannada: “ಖೊಮ್ಸ್”
- Korean: “알 쿰스”
- Korean: “알쿰스”
- Korean: “콤스”
- Korean: “쿰스”
- Korean: “훔스”
- Latvian: “Homsa”
- Lithuanian: “Hums”
- Lithuanian: “Humsas”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Al Khums”
- Malay: “Al Khums”
- Malay: “Khoms”
- Marathi: “खम्स”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khoms”
- Norwegian: “Al-Khums”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Khoms”
- Persian: “الخمس، لیبی”
- Persian: “الخمس”
- Polish: “Al Chums”
- Polish: “Al-Chums”
- Portuguese: “Al-Khums”
- Portuguese: “Homs”
- Romanian: “Al Khums”
- Russian: “Аль-Хумс”
- Russian: “Хомс”
- Sardinian: “Al Khums”
- Sardinian: “Homs”
- Scots: “Al Khums”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Homs”
- Sinhala: “කොම්ස්”
- South Azerbaijani: “الخمس، لیبی”
- South Azerbaijani: “الخمس”
- Spanish: “Al Khoms”
- Swahili: “Khoms”
- Swedish: “Al Khums”
- Swedish: “Al-Khums”
- Tamil: “கோமிஸ்”
- Telugu: “ఖోమ్స్”
- Thai: “ครอมส์”
- Turkish: “Khoms”
- Uighur: “ئەلخۇمس”
- Ukrainian: “Хомс”
- Urdu: “خمس، لیبیا”
- Urdu: “خمس”
- Vietnamese: “Al Khums”
- Vietnamese: “Khoms”
- Volapük: “Kums”
- Waray (Philippines): “Al Khums”
- Waray (Philippines): “Homs, Libya”
- Zulu: “Al Khums”
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