Hama

Hama is a city in with a population around 400,000. The city is a relatively conservative one dominated by hijabs and burkas. Much of the old city was destroyed in the Hama massacre in 1982.
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  • Type: City with 313,000 residents
  • Description: city in Hama Governorate, Syria
  • Also known as: “Amathe”, “Amathus”, “Chama”, “Chamath”, “Ecbatana de Siria”, “Emath”, “Epifanėja”, “Epiphanea”, “Epiphaneia”, “Epiphaneia, Syria”, “H̨amāh”, “Ḥamāh”, “Hamat, Hamát, Hamath”, “Hamate”, “Hamath”, “Imat”, “Kha mát”, “Kha-mát”, “Khamát”, “Mint of Epiphaneia, Syria”, “Έμάθ”, “Εμαθούς”, “אל-חמאת”, “חמאת”, “חמת צובא”, “חמת רבה”, “بلد النواعير”, “عروس العاصي”, “مدينة أبي الفداء”, “مدينة النواعير”, “مدينة حماة”, “مدينة حماه”, “هماث”, “हामा”, and “ฮะมาห์”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Azm Palace and Great Mosque.

Museum
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The is an 18th-century Ottoman-era palace…

Mosque
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The of Hama, is a in Hama, .

Mosque
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The is a Zengid-era in Hama, .

Hama

Latitude
35.1343° or 35° 8′ 4″ north
Longitude
36.7496° or 36° 44′ 59″ east
Population
313,000
Elevation
270 metres (886 feet)
UN/LOCODE
SY QHM
Open location code
8G7R4PMX+PV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 572557865
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
170017
Wiki­data ID
Q173545
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Hama” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Hama”
  • Amharic: “ሃማ”
  • Amharic: “ሐማት”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἐπιφάνεια”
  • Arabic: “حماة”
  • Arabic: “حماه”
  • Armenian: “Համա”
  • Asturian: “Hama”
  • Azerbaijani: “Həma”
  • Basque: “Hama”
  • Belarusian: “Хама”
  • Bengali: “হামা”
  • Breton: “Hama”
  • Bulgarian: “Хама”
  • Catalan: “Hama”
  • Cebuano: “Ḩamāh”
  • Central Kurdish: “حەما”
  • Chinese: “哈馬”
  • Chinese: “哈马”
  • Croatian: “Hama”
  • Czech: “Hamá”
  • Danish: “Hama”
  • Dutch: “Hama”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حماه”
  • Esperanto: “Hamao”
  • Finnish: “Hama”
  • French: “Hama”
  • Georgian: “ჰამა”
  • German: “Hama”
  • Greek: “Χάμα”
  • Gujarati: “હમા”
  • Hausa: “Hamah”
  • Hebrew: “חמה”
  • Hindi: “हमा”
  • Hungarian: “Hamá”
  • Icelandic: “Hama”
  • Indonesian: “Hamah”
  • Indonesian: “Hamat”
  • Interlingue: “Hama”
  • Irish: “Hama”
  • Italian: “Hama”
  • Japanese: “ハマ”
  • Japanese: “ハマー”
  • Javanese: “Hamah”
  • Kabyle: “Ḥama”
  • Kalaallisut: “Hama”
  • Kannada: “ಹಮಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಹಾಮಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Хама”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Hama”
  • Kirghiz: “Хама”
  • Korean: “하마”
  • Kurdish: “Hema”
  • Latin: “Epiphania”
  • Latvian: “Hama”
  • Lithuanian: “Hama”
  • Malagasy: “Hama (Siria)”
  • Malagasy: “Hama”
  • Malay: “Hama, Syria”
  • Malay: “Hama”
  • Malay: “Hamah”
  • Maltese: “Hama”
  • Marathi: “हमा”
  • Mazanderani: “حماه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hama”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰამა”
  • Moksha: “Гама”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hama”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hama”
  • Norwegian: “Hama”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܚܡܬ”
  • Oromo: “Hamah”
  • Panjabi: “ਹਮਾ”
  • Persian: “حما”
  • Persian: “حماة”
  • Persian: “حمات”
  • Polish: “Hama”
  • Portuguese: “Hama”
  • Portuguese: “Hamá”
  • Pushto: “حما”
  • Pushto: “حماة”
  • Romanian: “Hama”
  • Russian: “Хама”
  • Scots: “Hama”
  • Serbian: “Hama”
  • Serbian: “Хама”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hama”
  • Silesian: “Hama”
  • Sinhala: “හමා”
  • Slovak: “Hamá”
  • Slovenian: “Hama”
  • Somali: “Hamah”
  • Somali: “Xamaa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “حماه”
  • Spanish: “Hama”
  • Swahili: “Hamah”
  • Swedish: “Hama”
  • Swedish: “Hamah”
  • Swiss German: “Imatu”
  • Tagalog: “Hama”
  • Tajik: “Хама”
  • Tajik: “Ҳамо”
  • Tamil: “காமா”
  • Tatar: “Хама”
  • Tatar: “Хәма”
  • Telugu: “హమా”
  • Thai: “ฮะมาฮ์”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “حما”
  • Turkish: “Hama”
  • Turkish: “Humus”
  • Uighur: “ھەما”
  • Ukrainian: “Гама”
  • Ukrainian: “Хама”
  • Urdu: “حماة”
  • Urdu: “حماہ”
  • Urdu: “حماۃ”
  • Uzbek: “Hama”
  • Uzbek: “Hamo”
  • Venetian: “Hama”
  • Vietnamese: “Hama”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hama”
  • Welsh: “Hama”
  • Wu Chinese: “哈马（叙利亚）”
  • Wu Chinese: “哈马”
  • Yue Chinese: “哈馬”

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