Al Hoceima

Al Hoceima is a city on the northern edge of the Rif Mountains and on the Mediterranean coast. It's a known tourist destination despite its small size.
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  • Type: City with 123,000 residents
  • Description: Moroccan town located in the Central Rif, beetween Ibaqoyen region and Ayt Ouriarhel region
  • Also known as: “A Hoseima”, “Aït Kemra”, “Al Hoceïma”, “Al Hoceïma ⵍⵃⵓⵙⵉⵎⴰ الحسيمة”, “Al Huceima”, “Al Husayma”, “Al Ḩusaymāt”, “Al-Hoceïma”, “Al-Husayma”, “Alhacemas”, “Alhoceima”, “Biya”, “D’Aït Kamra”, “El Hoceima”, “El Hoceïma”, “Hoceima”, “Husajma”, “Villa Sanjuro”, “Χοσέιμα”, “Вилья-Санхурхо”, “Эль Хосейма”, “الحسيمه”, “جماعة الحسيمة”, “حسيمة”, “مدينة الحسيمة”, “ⴻⵍ-ⵃⵓⵙⵉⵎⴰ”, “알 호세이마”, and “ホセイマ”

Al Hoceima

Latitude
35.245° or 35° 14′ 42″ north
Longitude
-3.9313° or 3° 55′ 53″ west
Population
123,000
Elevation
74 metres (243 feet)
IATA airport code
AHU
UN/LOCODE
MA AHU
Open location code
8C7R63V9+XF
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Al Hoceima” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الحسيمة”
  • Basque: “Al-Hoceima”
  • Bengali: “আল হসেইমা”
  • Bengali: “আল হোসেইমা”
  • Bulgarian: “Хосейма”
  • Catalan: “Al Hoceima”
  • Cebuano: “Al Hoceïma”
  • Central Atlas Tamazight: “ⵍⵃⵓⵙⵉⵎⴰ”
  • Chinese: “胡塞馬”
  • Chinese: “胡塞马”
  • Corsican: “Al Hoceima”
  • Croatian: “Al-Hoceima”
  • Czech: “Al-Husajma”
  • Danish: “Al Hoceïma”
  • Dutch: “Al Hoceima”
  • Finnish: “Al Hoceima”
  • French: “Al Hoceima”
  • French: “Al Hoceïma”
  • Galician: “Al-Hoceima”
  • German: “Al Hoceima”
  • German: “Al Hoceïma”
  • German: “Al-Hoceima”
  • Greek: “Αλ Χοσέιμα”
  • Gujarati: “અલ હોસીમા”
  • Hebrew: “אל חוסיימה”
  • Hebrew: “אל-חוסיימה”
  • Hindi: “अल होसिमा”
  • Hindi: “अल होसैमा”
  • Indonesian: “Al Hoceima”
  • Italian: “Al-Hoseyma”
  • Japanese: “アル・ホセイマ”
  • Kabyle: “Lḥusima”
  • Kabyle: “Tijdit”
  • Kannada: “ಅಲ್ ಹೊಸೀಮಾ”
  • Korean: “알호세이마”
  • Latvian: “Hoseima”
  • Lithuanian: “Hoseima”
  • Malay: “Al Hoceima”
  • Marathi: “अल होकेमा”
  • Mongolian: “Аль-Хосейма”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “الحسيمة”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لحسيمة”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Al Hoceima”
  • Norwegian: “Al Hoceima”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Al Hoceima”
  • Ossetian: “Эль-Хосеймæ”
  • Persian: “حسیمه”
  • Polish: “Al-Husajma”
  • Portuguese: “Al Hoceima”
  • Portuguese: “Alucemas”
  • Romanian: “Al-Hoceima”
  • Russian: “Эль-Хосейма”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Al Hoceima”
  • Sinhala: “අල් හොසිමා”
  • Slovenian: “Al Hoceima”
  • South Azerbaijani: “حسیمه”
  • Spanish: “Alhucemas”
  • Spanish: “Villa Alhucemas”
  • Spanish: “Villa Sanjurjo”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵍⵃⵓⵙⵉⵎⴰ”
  • Swahili: “Al-Hoceima”
  • Swedish: “Al Hoceïma”
  • Tachelhit: “Lḥusima”
  • Tamil: “ஆல் ஹோஸிமா”
  • Telugu: “అల్ హొసీమా”
  • Thai: “อัลฮอเคม่า”
  • Turkish: “Al Hoceima”
  • Turkish: “El-Hüseyma”
  • Ukrainian: “Ель-Госейма”
  • Ukrainian: “Ель-Хосейма”
  • Urdu: “الحسیمہ”
  • Urdu: “حسیمہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Al Hoceima”
  • Welsh: “Al Hoceima”
  • Yiddish: “על־חוסיימאַ”
  • “Al Hoceïma”

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