Mediterranean Morocco
Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima
Al Hoceïma Province

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 in the Ibaqoyen region
  • Also known as: “Al Huceima”, “Al Ḩusaymāt”, “Al-Hoceïma”, “Alhacemas”, “Alhuceima”, “El Hoceima”, and “Hoceima”

Al Hoceima

Latitude
35.2451° or 35° 14′ 42″ north
Longitude
-3.9302° or 3° 55′ 49″ west
Population
123,000
Elevation
74 metres (243 feet)
IATA airport code
AHU
United Nations Location Code
MA AHU
Open location code
8C7R63W9+2W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 391512701
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2558545
Wiki­data ID
Q310350
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Al Hoceima” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الحسيمة”
  • Arabic: “الحسيمه”
  • Arabic: “جماعة الحسيمة”
  • Arabic: “حسيمة”
  • Arabic: “مدينة الحسيمة”
  • Basque: “Al Hoceima”
  • Basque: “Al-Hoceima”
  • Basque: “Alhucema”
  • Basque: “Alhucemas”
  • Basque: “Villa Sanjurjo”
  • Bengali: “আল হসেইমা”
  • Bengali: “আল হোসেইমা”
  • Bulgarian: “Хосейма”
  • Catalan: “Al Hoceima”
  • Catalan: “Al-Hoceima”
  • Catalan: “Alhucemas”
  • Catalan: “Alhucemes”
  • Catalan: “Biya”
  • Catalan: “Villa Sanjurjo”
  • Cebuano: “Al Hoceïma”
  • Central Atlas Tamazight: “ⵍⵃⵓⵙⵉⵎⴰ”
  • Chinese: “胡塞馬”
  • Chinese: “胡塞马”
  • Corsican: “Al Hoceima”
  • Croatian: “Al Hoceima”
  • Croatian: “Al-Hoceima”
  • Czech: “Al-Husajma”
  • Danish: “Al Hoceima”
  • Danish: “Al Hoceïma”
  • Dutch: “Al Hoceima”
  • Finnish: “Al Hoceima”
  • French: “Aït Kemra”
  • French: “Al Hoceima”
  • French: “Al Hoceïma”
  • French: “Al-Hoceima”
  • French: “Al-Hoceïma”
  • French: “Alhoceima”
  • French: “Alhucemas”
  • French: “D’Aït Kamra”
  • French: “El Hoceïma”
  • Galician: “A Hoseima”
  • Galician: “Al-Hoceima”
  • Galician: “Alhucemas”
  • Galician: “الحسيمة”
  • Galician: “ⴻⵍ-ⵃⵓⵙⵉⵎⴰ”
  • German: “Al Hoceima”
  • German: “Al Hoceïma”
  • German: “Al-Hoceima”
  • German: “Villa Sanjurjo”
  • Greek: “Αλ Χοσέιμα”
  • Greek: “Χοσέιμα”
  • Gujarati: “અલ હોસીમા”
  • Hebrew: “אל חוסיימה”
  • Hindi: “अल होसइमा”
  • Hindi: “अल होसिमा”
  • Indonesian: “Al Hoceima”
  • Italian: “Al Hoceima”
  • Italian: “Al Hoceïma”
  • Italian: “Al-Hoseyma”
  • Italian: “Hoceima”
  • Japanese: “アル・ホセイマ”
  • Japanese: “ホセイマ”
  • Kabyle: “Lḥusima”
  • Kabyle: “Tijdit”
  • Kannada: “ಅಲ್ ಹೊಸೀಮಾ”
  • Korean: “알 호세이마”
  • Korean: “알호세이마”
  • Latvian: “Hoseima”
  • Lithuanian: “Hoseima”
  • Malay: “Al Hoceima”
  • Marathi: “अल होकेमा”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “الحسيمة”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لحسيمة”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Al Hoceima”
  • Norwegian: “Al Hoceima”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Al Hoceima”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “El Hoceima”
  • Ossetian: “Эль-Хосеймæ”
  • Persian: “حسیمه”
  • Polish: “Al Hoceima”
  • Polish: “Al-Hoceima”
  • Polish: “Al-Husajma”
  • Polish: “Husajma”
  • Polish: “Villa Sanjuro”
  • Portuguese: “Al Hoceima”
  • Portuguese: “Al Hoceïma”
  • Portuguese: “Al Husayma”
  • Portuguese: “Al-Hoceima”
  • Portuguese: “Al-Husayma”
  • Portuguese: “Alhoceima”
  • Portuguese: “Alhucemas”
  • Portuguese: “Alucemas”
  • Portuguese: “Biya”
  • Portuguese: “El Hoceima”
  • Portuguese: “El Hoceïma”
  • Portuguese: “Villa Sanjurjo”
  • Romanian: “Al Hoceima”
  • Romanian: “Al-Hoceima”
  • Russian: “Вилья-Санхурхо”
  • Russian: “Эль Хосейма”
  • Russian: “Эль-Хосейма”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Al Hoceima”
  • Sinhala: “අල් හොසිමා”
  • Slovenian: “Al Hoceima”
  • South Azerbaijani: “حسیمه”
  • Spanish: “Al Hoceima”
  • Spanish: “Al-Hoseima”
  • Spanish: “Alhoceima”
  • Spanish: “Alhuceimas”
  • Spanish: “Alhucemas”
  • Spanish: “Hoceima”
  • Spanish: “Villa Alhucemas”
  • Spanish: “Villa Sanjurjo”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵍⵃⵓⵙⵉⵎⴰ”
  • Swahili: “Al-Hoceima”
  • Swedish: “Al Hoceima”
  • Swedish: “Al Hoceïma”
  • Swedish: “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”
  • Welsh: “Al-Hoceima”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Al Hoceima”. Photo: AJ Bouhaj, CC BY-SA 4.0.