Homs

Homs is the third largest city in . Much of the city was destroyed or damaged during the Syrian civil war of 2011-2024, particularly during the Siege of Homs.
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  • City with about 775,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 510 metres (1,680 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code QHS
  • …was formerly known as “Emesa”
  • Description: city in western Syria
  • Also known as
    “Hems”
    “Hims”
    “Houmousse”
    “Hums”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Khalid ibn al-Walid Mosque and Al Nuri Great Mosque.
AAlsaiad, CC BY 3.0.
Mosque
The is a in Homs…
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Mosque
The Great Mosque of al-Nuri also called al-Nouri Mosque, is a in Homs, .
Shaza Askar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Church
Saint Mary of the Holy Belt Cathedral is a Syriac Orthodox cathedral in Homs, .

Homs

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Latitude
34.7333° or 34° 44′ north
Longitude
36.7167° or 36° 43′ east
UN/LOCODE
SY HMS
Open location code
8G6RPPM8+8M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 572549095
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
169577
Wiki­data ID
Q131301

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Homs” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Homs”
  • Albanian: “Homs”
  • Albanian: “Homsi”
  • Amharic: “ሆምስ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἔμεσα” (historical)
  • Arabic: “Ḩimş”
  • Arabic: “اميسا”
  • Arabic: “جمص”
  • Arabic: “حمص”
  • Arabic: “مدينة حمص”
  • Armenian: “Հոմս”
  • Asturian: “Homs”
  • Avaric: “ХІумс”
  • Avaric: “ХӀумс”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hims”
  • Azerbaijani: “Homs”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hüms”
  • Azerbaijani: “Xoms”
  • Basque: “Hims”
  • Basque: “Homs”
  • Belarusian: “Гомс”
  • Belarusian: “Хомс”
  • Bengali: “হোমস”
  • Bosnian: “Homs”
  • Breton: “Homs”
  • Bulgarian: “Емеса”
  • Bulgarian: “Хомс”
  • Catalan: “Èmesa”
  • Catalan: “Emessa”
  • Catalan: “Emissa”
  • Catalan: “Hims”
  • Catalan: “Homs”
  • Cebuano: “Homs”
  • Central Kurdish: “حومس”
  • Chechen: “Хьамс”
  • Chechen: “Хьимс”
  • Chechen: “Хьомс”
  • Chinese: “霍姆斯”
  • Chuvash: “Хомс”
  • Croatian: “Homs”
  • Czech: “Emesa”
  • Czech: “Homs”
  • Danish: “Hims”
  • Danish: “Homs”
  • Dutch: “Homs”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حمص”
  • Esperanto: “Èmesa”
  • Esperanto: “Emisa”
  • Esperanto: “Hims”
  • Esperanto: “Homs”
  • Esperanto: “Homso”
  • Estonian: “Emesa”
  • Estonian: “Ḩimş”
  • Estonian: “Homs”
  • Finnish: “Emesa”
  • Finnish: “Homs”
  • French: “Émèse”
  • French: “Homs”
  • Ga: “Emesa”
  • Ga: “Hems”
  • Ga: “Hims”
  • Ga: “Homs”
  • Georgian: “ჰომსი”
  • German: “Emesa”
  • German: “Emisa”
  • German: “Ḥimṣ”
  • German: “Homs”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Emesa”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Hems”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Hims”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Homs”
  • Greek: “Έμεσα”
  • Greek: “Έμεσσα”
  • Greek: “Χομς”
  • Gujarati: “હોમ્સ”
  • Hausa: “Emesa”
  • Hausa: “Hems”
  • Hausa: “Hims”
  • Hausa: “Homs”
  • Hebrew: “אמסה”
  • Hebrew: “חומס”
  • Hindi: “होम्स”
  • Hungarian: “Homsz”
  • Icelandic: “Homs”
  • Ido: “Homs”
  • Indonesian: “Himsh”
  • Indonesian: “Homs”
  • Interlingue: “Homs”
  • Irish: “Homs”
  • Italian: “Emesa”
  • Italian: “Emessa”
  • Italian: “Homs”
  • Japanese: “エメサ”
  • Japanese: “ヒムシュ”
  • Japanese: “ヒムス”
  • Japanese: “ホムス”
  • Javanese: “Homs”
  • Kabyle: “Ḥumṣ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Homs”
  • Kannada: “ಹೊಂಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ಹೋಮ್ಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Xoms”
  • Kazakh: “Хомс”
  • Kazakh: “حومس”
  • Kirghiz: “Химс”
  • Korean: “에메사”
  • Korean: “호므스”
  • Korean: “홈스”
  • Korean: “힘스”
  • Kurdish: “Hims”
  • Latin: “Emesa”
  • Latvian: “Himsa”
  • Latvian: “Homsa”
  • Limburgan: “Homs”
  • Lithuanian: “Chomsas”
  • Lithuanian: “Emesa”
  • Lithuanian: “Himsas”
  • Lithuanian: “Homsas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Homs”
  • Malagasy: “Homs”
  • Malay: “Hims”
  • Malay: “Homs”
  • Maltese: “Emesa”
  • Maltese: “Homs”
  • Marathi: “होम्स”
  • Mazanderani: “حمص”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Homs”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰომსი”
  • Moksha: “Гомс”
  • Mongolian: “Хомс”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Emesa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hims”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Homs”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Homs”
  • Norwegian: “Homs”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܚܡܨ”
  • Oromo: “Homs”
  • Ossetian: “Хомс”
  • Panjabi: “ਹਿਮਸ”
  • Persian: “امسا”
  • Persian: “حمص”
  • Polish: “Emesa”
  • Polish: “Hims”
  • Polish: “Homs”
  • Portuguese: “Emesa”
  • Portuguese: “Emessa”
  • Portuguese: “Hims”
  • Portuguese: “Hómece”
  • Portuguese: “Homs”
  • Pushto: “حمص”
  • Romanian: “Homs”
  • Russian: “Химс”
  • Russian: “Хомс”
  • Russian: “Эмеса”
  • Russian: “Эмесса”
  • Scots: “Homs”
  • Serbian: “Emesa”
  • Serbian: “Homs”
  • Serbian: “Хомс”
  • Serbian: “حمص”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Emesa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hims”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Homs”
  • Sicilian: “Homs”
  • Silesian: “Hims”
  • Sindhi: “حمص”
  • Sinhala: “හෝම්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Homs”
  • Slovenian: “Homs”
  • Somali: “Homs”
  • Somali: “Ximsa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “حمص”
  • Spanish: “Emesa”
  • Spanish: “Homs”
  • Swahili: “Homs”
  • Swedish: “Emesa”
  • Swedish: “Himş”
  • Swedish: “Homs”
  • Tagalog: “Homs”
  • Tajik: “Химс”
  • Tajik: “Ҳимс”
  • Tamil: “உம்சு”
  • Tamil: “ஹோம்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Химс”
  • Tatar: “Хомс”
  • Telugu: “హోమ్స్”
  • Thai: “Homs”
  • Thai: “เอเมอซา”
  • Thai: “ฮอมส์”
  • Thai: “ฮิมศ์”
  • Turkish: “Hıms”
  • Turkish: “Humus, Suriye”
  • Turkish: “Humus”
  • Twi: “Emesa”
  • Twi: “Hems”
  • Twi: “Hims”
  • Twi: “Homs”
  • Uighur: “ھىمس”
  • Ukrainian: “Емеса”
  • Ukrainian: “Хомс”
  • Urdu: “حمص”
  • Uzbek: “Hims”
  • Venetian: “Homs”
  • Veps: “Homs”
  • Vietnamese: “Himş”
  • Vietnamese: “Homs”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Homs”
  • Welsh: “Homs”
  • Western Armenian: “Հոմս”
  • Wu Chinese: “霍姆斯（叙利亚）”
  • Wu Chinese: “霍姆斯”
  • Yue Chinese: “荷姆斯”

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