Houma
Houma is a small city in south central Louisiana. It is the seat and largest city in Terrebonne Parish, and the center of the Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux Metropolitan Statistical Area.
- Type: City with 32,700 residents
- Description: only incorporated city and parish seat of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, United States
- Also known as: “Bossier City”, “Houma (Luisiana)”, “Houma, LA”, “Houma, Louisiana”, and “ヒューマ (ルイジアナ州)”
- Postal codes: 70360, 70361, 70363, and 70364
Places of Interest
Highlights: Vandebilt Catholic High School.
Houma
- Categories: municipal corporation, county seat, city in the United States, consolidated city-county, and locality
- Location: Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
29.5958° or 29° 35′ 45″ north
Longitude
-90.7195° or 90° 43′ 10″ west
Population
32,700
Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)
IATA airport code
HUM
UN/LOCODE
US HUM
Open location code
76XFH7WJ+85
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Houma” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هوما”
- Basque: “Houma”
- Cebuano: “Houma”
- Chechen: “Гоума”
- Chinese: “霍玛”
- Chinese: “霍马”
- Czech: “Houma”
- Dagbani: “Houma”
- Danish: “Houma”
- Dutch: “Houma”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هوما”
- French: “Houma”
- Galician: “Houma”
- German: “Houma”
- Gilaki: “هۊما (لۊئيزيانا)”
- Gilaki: “هۊما”
- Haitian: “Houma, Lwizyana”
- Haitian: “Houma”
- Hebrew: “הומה”
- Hungarian: “Houma”
- Irish: “Houma”
- Italian: “Houma”
- Japanese: “ホーマ”
- Japanese: “ホウマ”
- Korean: “호마”
- Ladin: “Houma”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Houma”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Houma”
- Norwegian: “Houma”
- Persian: “هوما، لوئیزیانا”
- Persian: “هوما”
- Polish: “Houma”
- Portuguese: “Houma”
- Romanian: “Houma”
- Russian: “Хоума”
- Russian: “Хума”
- Serbian: “Houma”
- Serbian: “Хоума”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Houma, Louisiana”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Houma”
- Slovak: “Houma”
- Slovenian: “Houma”
- South Azerbaijani: “هوما، لوئیزیانا”
- Spanish: “Houma”
- Swahili: “Houma, Louisiana”
- Swahili: “Houma”
- Swedish: “Houma, Louisiana”
- Swedish: “Houma”
- Tatar: “Гоума”
- Turkish: “Houma, Louisiana”
- Turkish: “Houma”
- Ukrainian: “Гоума”
- Urdu: “ہووما، لوزیانا”
- Urdu: “ہووما”
- Uzbek: “Houma”
- Venetian: “Houma”
- Volapük: “Houma”
- Waray (Philippines): “Houma, Louisiana”
- Waray (Philippines): “Houma”
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