Qabilat 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.
Photo: Asybaris01, Public domain.
- Type: City with 104,000 residents
- Description: Libya
- Also known as: “Al Chums”, “Al Khums”, “al-H̱ums”, “Al-Khums”, “El Choms”, “Hums”, “Khoms”, “Khomsor”, “Labdah”, “Lebda”, “ალ-ხუმსი”, “ელ-ხომსი”, “אל-כומס”, “כומס”, “مدينة الخمس”, “ⵍⵅⵎⵙ الخمس Khoms”, “ⵍⵎⵔⵇⴱ”, “알 쿰스”, “알쿰스”, “콤스”, and “쿰스”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Leptis Magna and Leptis Magna Museum.
Leptis Magna Museum
Museum
Leptis Magna Museum is an archaeological museum located in Khoms, Tripolitania, Libya.
Temple of Hercules, Leptis Magna
Historic building
Qabilat al Khums
- Categories: human settlement, municipality of Libya, and locality
- Location: Al Marqab, Libya, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
32.6522° or 32° 39′ 8″ north
Longitude
14.268° or 14° 16′ 5″ east
Population
104,000
Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Qabilat al Khums” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ኣል ኩምስ”
- Arabic: “الخمس”
- Arabic: “الخُمس”
- Arabic: “المرقب”
- Asturian: “Al Khums”
- Azerbaijani: “El Xums”
- Azerbaijani: “Əl-Xüms”
- Basque: “Khums”
- Belarusian: “Аль-Хумс”
- Belarusian: “Хомс”
- Bengali: “আল খুমস”
- 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: “Al Khums”
- French: “Khoms”
- Georgian: “ელ-ხუმსი”
- German: “al-Chums”
- German: “Al-Chums”
- Greek: “Αλ Κουμς”
- Gujarati: “ખમ્સ”
- Hausa: “Al Khums”
- Hebrew: “אל-ח’ומס”
- Hebrew: “אל-חומס”
- Hindi: “अल खुम्स”
- Hindi: “अल-ख़ुम्स”
- Indonesian: “Al Khums”
- Indonesian: “Khoms”
- Irish: “al-Khums”
- Italian: “Homs”
- Japanese: “フムス”
- Javanese: “Al Khums”
- Kannada: “ಖೊಮ್ಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Әл-Хумс”
- Kirghiz: “Әл-Хумс”
- Korean: “훔스”
- Latvian: “Homsa”
- Lithuanian: “Humsas”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Al Khums”
- Malay: “Al Khums”
- Malay: “Khoms”
- Marathi: “खम्स”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khoms”
- Norwegian: “Al-Khums”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Khoms”
- Oromo: “Al Khums”
- Panjabi: “ਅਲ ਖੁਮਸ”
- Persian: “الخمس، لیبی”
- Persian: “الخمس”
- Polish: “Al-Chums”
- Portuguese: “Al Khums”
- Portuguese: “Al-Khums”
- Portuguese: “Hómece”
- Pushto: “الخمس”
- Romanian: “Al Khums”
- Russian: “Хомс”
- Sardinian: “Al Khums”
- Sardinian: “Homs”
- Scots: “Al Khums”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Homs”
- Sinhala: “කොම්ස්”
- Somali: “Al Khums”
- South Azerbaijani: “الخمس، لیبی”
- South Azerbaijani: “الخمس”
- Spanish: “Al Jums”
- Spanish: “Al Khoms”
- Swahili: “Al Khums”
- Swahili: “Khoms”
- Swedish: “Al-Khums”
- Tajik: “Эль-Хумс”
- Tamil: “கோமிஸ்”
- Tatar: “Әл-Хумс”
- Telugu: “ఖోమ్స్”
- Thai: “ครอมส์”
- Turkish: “El Hums”
- Turkish: “Khoms”
- Uighur: “ئەلخۇمس”
- Ukrainian: “Хомс”
- Urdu: “خمس، لیبیا”
- Urdu: “خمس”
- Uzbek: “Al Khums”
- Vietnamese: “Al Khums”
- Volapük: “Kums”
- Waray (Philippines): “Al Khums”
- Waray (Philippines): “Homs, Libya”
- Zulu: “Al Khums”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Qabilat al Khums and Qabilat ash Shurfah.
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