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Latakia

Latakia, also spelt Lattakia, is a major port in , with a population of 550,000. Latakia is a city extending back to Ancient Greek times, and continues to be an important commercial port for Syria today.
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  • Type: City with 384,000 residents
  • Description: principal port city of Syria
  • Also known as: “Al Lādhiqīyah”, “al-Lāḏikiyya”, “Al-Laziqiyah”, “El Lādhaqiyé”, “El Lādhiqīya”, “Ladhiqiye”, “Ladikis”, “Ladikiya”, “Laodicée”, “Laodikeia”, “Latakiyah”, and “Lattaki”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Port of Latakia.

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The is a seaport located on the Mediterranean Sea in the city of Latakia. Established on 12 February 1950, it has since served as 's main seaport.

Latakia

Latitude
35.52° or 35° 31′ 12″ north
Longitude
35.7781° or 35° 46′ 41″ east
Population
384,000
Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)
IATA airport code
LTK
United Nations Location Codes
SY ALD and SY LTK
Open location code
8G7QGQCH+26
Open­Street­Map ID
node 192288043
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
173576
Wiki­data ID
Q200030
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Latakia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Latakia”
  • Albanian: “Latakia”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λαοδίκεια ἡ Πάραλος”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λαοδίκεια”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ῥάμιθα”
  • Arabic: “أمانثا”
  • Arabic: “اللاذقية”
  • Arabic: “اللاذقيّة”
  • Arabic: “اللاذقيه”
  • Arabic: “راماثا”
  • Arabic: “راميتا”
  • Arabic: “لاذقية”
  • Arabic: “مدينة اللاذقية”
  • Arabic: “ياريموتا”
  • Armenian: “Լաթակիա”
  • Armenian: “Լաոդիկեա”
  • Asturian: “Latakia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əl-Laziqiyyə”
  • Azerbaijani: “Laziqiyyə”
  • Basque: “Latakia”
  • Belarusian: “Латакія”
  • Bengali: “লাতাকিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Latakija”
  • Bulgarian: “Латакия”
  • Catalan: “Al-Ladhikiya”
  • Catalan: “Latakia”
  • Catalan: “Latàkia”
  • Catalan: “Lataquia”
  • Catalan: “Latàquia”
  • Cebuano: “Latakia”
  • Central Kurdish: “لازقیە”
  • Chinese: “拉塔基亚”
  • Chinese: “拉塔基亞”
  • Croatian: “Latakia”
  • Croatian: “Latakija”
  • Czech: “Latákia”
  • Czech: “Latákie”
  • Czech: “Lázikíja”
  • Danish: “Latakia”
  • Dutch: “Laodicea”
  • Dutch: “Latakia (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Latakia”
  • Dutch: “Latakya”
  • Dutch: “Leuke Akte”
  • Dutch: “Ramitha”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اللاذقيه”
  • Esperanto: “Latakia”
  • Esperanto: “Latakio”
  • Estonian: “Latakia”
  • Finnish: “Latakia”
  • Finnish: “Lattakia”
  • French: “Laodicée de la mer”
  • French: “Laodicée de Syrie”
  • French: “Latakia”
  • French: “Latakié”
  • French: “Lattaqié”
  • French: “Lattaquie”
  • French: “Lattaquié”
  • French: “Lattaquieh”
  • Galician: “Latakia”
  • Georgian: “ლათაკია”
  • Georgian: “ლატაკია”
  • German: “Al Ladhakijja”
  • German: “Latakia”
  • German: “Lattakia”
  • German: “Lattaquié”
  • Greek: “Λαοδικεία”
  • Greek: “Λατάκια”
  • Greek: “Λαττάκεια”
  • Gujarati: “લેટાકિયા”
  • Hebrew: “לאד’קיה”
  • Hebrew: “לאטקיה”
  • Hebrew: “לדיקיה”
  • Hebrew: “לדקיה”
  • Hebrew: “לטקיה”
  • Hindi: “लताकिया”
  • Hindi: “लैतकिया”
  • Hungarian: “Latakia”
  • Icelandic: “Latakía”
  • Ido: “Latakia”
  • Indonesian: “Latakia”
  • Interlingue: “Latakia”
  • Irish: “Latakia”
  • Italian: “Laodicea”
  • Italian: “Latakia”
  • Italian: “Lattakia”
  • Japanese: “ラタキーヤ”
  • Japanese: “ラタキア”
  • Japanese: “ラタキヤ”
  • Kabyle: “Laḍqeyya”
  • Kalaallisut: “Latakia”
  • Kannada: “ಲಟಾಕಿಯ”
  • Kirghiz: “Латакия шаары”
  • Korean: “라타키아”
  • Kurdish: “Laziqiye”
  • Latin: “Laodicea ad Mare”
  • Latin: “Laodicea”
  • Latin: “Laudicea”
  • Latvian: “Lādikīja”
  • Latvian: “Latākija (Lādikīja)”
  • Lithuanian: “Laodikėja”
  • Lithuanian: “Latakija”
  • Lithuanian: “Ramita”
  • Luxembourgish: “Latakia”
  • Macedonian: “Латакија”
  • Malagasy: “Latakia”
  • Malay: “Latakia”
  • Marathi: “लाटकिया”
  • Mazanderani: “لاذقیه”
  • Mingrelian: “ლატაკია”
  • Moksha: “Латакия”
  • Mongolian: “Латакия”
  • Nepali: “लटाकिया”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Latakia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Latakiyah”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lattakia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Latakia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lattakia”
  • Norwegian: “Latakia”
  • Ossetian: “Латаки”
  • Persian: “بندر لاذقیه”
  • Persian: “لاذقیه”
  • Piemontese: “Laodicea”
  • Polish: “Al-Lazikija”
  • Polish: “Latakia”
  • Polish: “Latakija”
  • Portuguese: “Laodiceia na Síria”
  • Portuguese: “Laodiceia”
  • Portuguese: “Laodicéia”
  • Portuguese: “Latakia”
  • Portuguese: “Lataquia”
  • Romanian: “Latakia”
  • Russian: “Латакия”
  • Scots: “Latakia”
  • Serbian: “Latakija”
  • Serbian: “Латакија”
  • Serbian: “اللاذقية”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Laodiceja”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Laodikija”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Latakia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Latakija”
  • Silesian: “Latakia”
  • Sinhala: “ලටකියා”
  • Sinhala: “ලැටාකියා”
  • Slovenian: “Latakija”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لاذقیه”
  • Spanish: “Al Ladhiqiyah”
  • Spanish: “Latakia”
  • Spanish: “Lattakia”
  • Swedish: “Al Ladhiqiyah”
  • Swedish: “Al Ladhiqiyya”
  • Swedish: “Al-Ladhaqiyya”
  • Swedish: “Al-Ladhiqiyah”
  • Swedish: “Ladhiqiyah”
  • Swedish: “Laodicea ad Mare”
  • Swedish: “Laodikeía”
  • Swedish: “Latakia”
  • Swedish: “Latakieh”
  • Swedish: “Lattakia”
  • Swedish: “Lattaquié”
  • Swedish: “Lazkiye”
  • Tajik: “Лозиқия”
  • Talysh: “Latakija”
  • Talysh: “Latakiya”
  • Tamil: “லடக்கிஆ”
  • Tamil: “லடாகியா”
  • Tatar: “Lataqiä”
  • Telugu: “లటాకియా”
  • Thai: “ลาทาเกีย”
  • Thai: “อัลลาษิกียะฮ์”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “اللاذقية”
  • Turkish: “Latakia”
  • Turkish: “Lazkiye”
  • Uighur: “لازىقىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Латакія”
  • Urdu: “اللاذقیہ”
  • Urdu: “لاذقیہ”
  • Uzbek: “Latakiya”
  • Uzbek: “Loziqiya”
  • Venetian: “Laodicea”
  • Vietnamese: “Latakia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Latakia”
  • Welsh: “Latakia”
  • Welsh: “Latakiyah”
  • Western Armenian: “Լաթակիա”
  • Western Armenian: “Լաթաքիա”
  • Western Panjabi: “لاذقیہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “拉塔基亚”
  • Yue Chinese: “拉塔基亞”

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