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 Ladhakijja”, “Al Ladhiqiyah”, “Al Lādhiqīyah”, “Al Ladhiqiyya”, “Al-Ladhaqiyya”, “Al-Ladhikiya”, “Al-Ladhiqiyah”, “al-Lāḏikiyya”, “Al-Lazikija”, “Al-Laziqiyah”, “El Lādhaqiyé”, “El Lādhiqīya”, “Ladhiqiyah”, “Ladhiqiye”, “Ladikis”, “Ladikiya”, “Laodicée”, “Laodicée de la mer”, “Laodicée de Syrie”, “Laodiceia”, “Laodicéia”, “Laodiceia na Síria”, “Laodiceja”, “Laodikeia”, “Laodikeía”, “Laodikėja”, “Laodikija”, “Latàkia”, “Latakia (stad)”, “Latakié”, “Latakieh”, “Latākija (Lādikīja)”, “Latakiyah”, “Latakya”, “Latàquia”, “Lattaki”, “Lattaqié”, “Lattaquie”, “Lattaquieh”, “Laudicea”, “Leuke Akte”, “Ramita”, “Ramitha”, “Λατάκια”, “Ῥάμιθα”, “Լաոդիկեա”, “לאד’קיה”, “לאטקיה”, “לדיקיה”, “לדקיה”, “أمانثا”, “اللاذقيّة”, “بندر لاذقیه”, “راماثا”, “راميتا”, “مدينة اللاذقية”, “ياريموتا”, “லடக்கிஆ”, “ලටකියා”, “ลาทาเกีย”, “ラタキーヤ”, and “ラタキヤ”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Latakia railway station and Port of Latakia.

Railway station
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Latakia station is a railway station in Latakia, …

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The is a seaport located on the Mediterranean Sea in the city of Latakia.

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
UN/LOCODE
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”
  • Amharic: “ላታቂያ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λαοδίκεια ἡ Πάραλος”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λαοδίκεια”
  • Arabic: “اللاذقية”
  • Arabic: “لاذقية”
  • Armenian: “Լաթակիա”
  • Asturian: “Latakia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əl-Laziqiyyə”
  • Azerbaijani: “Laziqiyyə”
  • Basque: “Latakia”
  • Belarusian: “Латакія”
  • Bengali: “লাটাকিয়া”
  • Bengali: “লাতাকিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Latakija”
  • Bulgarian: “Латакия”
  • Catalan: “Latakia”
  • Cebuano: “Latakia”
  • Central Kurdish: “لازقیە”
  • Chinese: “拉塔基亚”
  • Chinese: “拉塔基亞”
  • Croatian: “Latakija”
  • Czech: “Latákia”
  • Czech: “Latákie”
  • Czech: “Lázikíja”
  • Danish: “Latakia”
  • Dutch: “Latakia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اللاذقيه”
  • Esperanto: “Latakio”
  • Estonian: “Latakia”
  • Finnish: “Latakia”
  • Finnish: “Lattakia”
  • French: “Lattaquié”
  • Galician: “Latakia”
  • Georgian: “ლათაკია”
  • Georgian: “ლატაკია”
  • German: “Latakia”
  • Greek: “Λαοδικεία”
  • Greek: “Λαττάκεια”
  • Gujarati: “લેટાકિયા”
  • Hausa: “Latakia”
  • Hebrew: “לטקיה”
  • Hindi: “लताकिया”
  • Hindi: “लैतकिया”
  • Hungarian: “Latakia”
  • Icelandic: “Latakía”
  • Ido: “Latakia”
  • Indonesian: “Latakia”
  • Interlingue: “Latakia”
  • Irish: “Latakia”
  • Italian: “Laodicea”
  • Italian: “Latakia”
  • Japanese: “ラタキア”
  • Javanese: “Latakia”
  • Kabyle: “Laḍqeyya”
  • Kalaallisut: “Latakia”
  • Kannada: “ಲಟಾಕಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಲತಕ್ಯಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Латақия”
  • Kirghiz: “Латакия шаары”
  • Korean: “라타키아”
  • Kurdish: “Laziqiye”
  • Latin: “Laodicea ad Mare”
  • Latin: “Laodicea”
  • Latvian: “Lādikīja”
  • Lithuanian: “Latakija”
  • Luxembourgish: “Latakia”
  • Macedonian: “Латакија”
  • Malagasy: “Latakia”
  • Malay: “Latakia”
  • Marathi: “लाटकिया”
  • Mazanderani: “لاذقیه”
  • Mingrelian: “ლატაკია”
  • Moksha: “Латакия”
  • Mongolian: “Латакия”
  • Nepali: “लटाकिया”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Latakia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lattakia”
  • Norwegian: “Latakia”
  • Oromo: “Latakia”
  • Ossetian: “Латаки”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਾਤਾਕੀਆ”
  • Persian: “لاذقیه”
  • Piemontese: “Laodicea”
  • Polish: “Latakia”
  • Portuguese: “Lataquia”
  • Pushto: “اللاذقية”
  • Romanian: “Latakia”
  • Russian: “Латакия”
  • Scots: “Latakia”
  • Serbian: “Latakija”
  • Serbian: “Латакија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Latakija”
  • Silesian: “Latakia”
  • Sinhala: “ලැටාකියා”
  • Slovenian: “Latakija”
  • Somali: “Latakia”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لاذقیه”
  • Spanish: “Latakia”
  • Swahili: “Latakia”
  • Swedish: “Latakia”
  • Tajik: “Латакия”
  • Tajik: “Лозиқия”
  • Talysh: “Latakija”
  • Talysh: “Latakiya”
  • Tamil: “லடாகியா”
  • Tatar: “Lataqiä”
  • Telugu: “లటాకియా”
  • Thai: “อัลลาษิกียะฮ์”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “اللاذقية”
  • Turkish: “Lazkiye”
  • Uighur: “لازىقىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Латакія”
  • Urdu: “اللاذقیہ”
  • Urdu: “لاذقیہ”
  • Uzbek: “Latakiya”
  • Uzbek: “Loziqiya”
  • Venetian: “Laodicea”
  • Vietnamese: “Latakia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Latakia”
  • Welsh: “Latakia”
  • Western Armenian: “Լաթաքիա”
  • Western Panjabi: “لاذقیہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “拉塔基亚”
  • Yue Chinese: “拉塔基亞”

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