Saudi Arabia
Hejaz
Mecca Region

Mecca

Mecca, officially known as Makkah al-Mukarramah, is a city in and the holiest city in Islam. Mecca is the birthplace of Prophet Muhammed, the founder of Islam, and Muslims believe the Qur'an was first revealed to Muhammad here.
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  • Type: City with 1,530,000 residents
  • Description: Saudi Arabian city and capital of the Makkah province
  • Also known as: “Bakkah”, “Holy City of Mecca”, “Macoraba”, “Makkah”, “Makkah al Mukarramah”, “Makkah al Mukarraman”, “Makkah al-Mukarramah”, “mecca”, “Mecca (Saudi Arabia)”, “Mother of All Settlements”, “The Holy City of Mecca”, and “Umm al-Qurā”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kaaba and Maqam Ibrahim.

Mosque
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The , also spelled Kaʽba, Kaʽbah or Kabah, sometimes referred to as al-Kaʽba al-Musharrafa, is a stone building at the center of Islam's most important and holiest site, the in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

Memorial
The Maqām Ibrāhīm is a small square stone associated with Ibrahim, Ismail and their building of the in what is now the Great Mosque of Mecca in the region of .

Historic site
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is a historic site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Haram and Ajyad.

Neighborhood
is one of several similar words originating from the triliteral Semitic root Ḥ-R-M. The word literally means "sanctuary", commonly used by Muslims to refer to and .

Neighborhood
is a historic neighborhood of Mecca in Makkah Province, in western . Ajya is directly south of Al Haram District.

Mecca

Latitude
21.4225° or 21° 25′ 21″ north
Longitude
39.8262° or 39° 49′ 34″ east
Population
1,530,000
Elevation
333 metres (1,093 feet)
United Nations Location Code
SA MAK
Open location code
7GHXCRFG+2F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4308338842
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
104515
Wiki­data ID
Q5806
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Mecca” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Meukah”
  • Adyghe: “Меччэ”
  • Afrikaans: “Mekka”
  • Albanian: “Meka”
  • Amharic: “መካ”
  • Arabic: “أم القرى”
  • Arabic: “البلد الأمين”
  • Arabic: “بكة”
  • Arabic: “مكة المكرمة”
  • Arabic: “مكّة المكرمة”
  • Arabic: “مكة”
  • Arabic: “مكه المكرمه”
  • Aragonese: “A Meca”
  • Armenian: “Մեքքա”
  • Assamese: “মক্কা”
  • Asturian: “La Meca”
  • Avaric: “Макка”
  • Awadhi: “मक्का”
  • Azerbaijani: “Məkkə”
  • Balinese: “Mekkah”
  • Bashkir: “Мәккә”
  • Basque: “Meka”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Mokkah”
  • Belarusian: “Мекка”
  • Belarusian: “Мэка”
  • Bengali: “মক্কা”
  • Bhojpuri: “मक्का (शहर)”
  • Bosnian: “Meka”
  • Bosnian: “Mekka”
  • Breton: “Mekka”
  • Bulgarian: “Мека”
  • Burmese: “မက္ကာမြို့”
  • Burmese: “မက္ကာဟ်မြို့တော်”
  • Catalan: “la Meca”
  • Catalan: “La Meca”
  • Catalan: “Makka”
  • Cebuano: “Meca”
  • Cebuano: “Mecca”
  • Central Bikol: “Meka”
  • Central Kanuri: “Bakkah”
  • Central Kanuri: “Macoraba”
  • Central Kanuri: “Makka”
  • Central Kanuri: “Makkah al-Mukarramah”
  • Central Kanuri: “Makkah”
  • Central Kanuri: “Umm al-Qurā”
  • Central Kurdish: “مەککە”
  • Chechen: “Макка”
  • Chinese: “Makka”
  • Chinese: “麥加”
  • Chinese: “麦加”
  • Chuvash: “Мекка”
  • Cornish: “Mekka”
  • Corsican: “A Mecca”
  • Corsican: “Mecca”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Mekke”
  • Croatian: “Meka”
  • Czech: “Mekka”
  • Dagbani: “Maka”
  • Danish: “Mekka”
  • Dhivehi: “މައްކާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Meka”
  • Dotyali: “मक्का”
  • Dutch: “Mekka”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مكه”
  • Erzya: “Мекка ош”
  • Esperanto: “Mekao”
  • Esperanto: “Mekko”
  • Estonian: “Meka”
  • Extremaduran: “La Meca”
  • Faroese: “Mekka”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Makka”
  • Finnish: “Mekka”
  • French: “La Mecque”
  • Friulian: “La Meche”
  • Ga: “Bakkah”
  • Ga: “Makkah al-Mukarramah”
  • Ga: “Mecca”
  • Ga: “Umm al-Qurā”
  • Galician: “A Meca”
  • Gan Chinese: “麥加”
  • Georgian: “მექა”
  • German: “Mekka”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Bakkah”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Makkah al-Mukarramah”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Mecca”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Umm al-Qurā”
  • Gorontalo: “Mekkah”
  • Gothic: “𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌺𐌰”
  • Greek: “Μάκκα αλ-Μουκάραμα”
  • Greek: “Μάκκα”
  • Greek: “Μέκκα”
  • Greek: “مكة المكرمة”
  • Guarani: “Méka”
  • Gujarati: “મક્કા”
  • Hausa: “Makkah”
  • Hawaiian: “Meka”
  • Hebrew: “מכה”
  • Hindi: “उम्मुल क़ुरा”
  • Hindi: “बक्क़ा”
  • Hindi: “मक्का”
  • Hungarian: “Mekka”
  • Icelandic: “Mekka”
  • Ido: “Meka”
  • Iloko: “Meka”
  • Indonesian: “Makkah”
  • Indonesian: “Mekkah”
  • Ingush: “Макка”
  • Interlingua: “Mecca”
  • Interlingue: “Mekka”
  • Irish: “Meice”
  • Italian: “La Mecca”
  • Italian: “Makka al-Mukarrama”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Meka”
  • Japanese: “ウンム・アル＝クラー”
  • Japanese: “マッカ・アル＝ムカッラマ”
  • Japanese: “マッカ”
  • Japanese: “メッカ”
  • Javanese: “Mekah”
  • Javanese: “Mekkah”
  • Kabiyè: “Maka”
  • Kabyle: “Mekka”
  • Kalaallisut: “Mekka”
  • Kannada: “ಉಮ್ಮುಲ್ ಕುರಾ”
  • Kannada: “ನಗರಗಳ ಮಾತೆ”
  • Kannada: “ಪವಿತ್ರ ಮಕ್ಕಾ ನಗರ”
  • Kannada: “ಮಕ್ಕಾ ಮುಕರ್ರಮ”
  • Kannada: “ಮಕ್ಕಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಮೆಕ್ಕಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Mekka”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Mekke”
  • Kashmiri: “مکہٕ”
  • Kazakh: “Мекендердің анасы”
  • Kazakh: “Мекке”
  • Kazakh: “Уммуль Қура”
  • Khmer: “ម៉ិកកា”
  • Kirghiz: “Меке”
  • Komering: “Makkah al-Mukarramah”
  • Komering: “Mokkah”
  • Korean: “메카”
  • Kurdish: “Meke”
  • Ladin: “Mecca”
  • Lak: “Макка”
  • Latin: “Mecca”
  • Latvian: “Meka”
  • Lezghian: “Мекка”
  • Limburgan: “Mekka”
  • Literary Chinese: “天方”
  • Lithuanian: “Meka”
  • Lojban: “makax”
  • Lombard: “La Meca”
  • Low German: “Mekka”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mekka”
  • Macedonian: “Мека”
  • Madurese: “Mekka”
  • Malagasy: “Maka (any Arabia Saodita)”
  • Malagasy: “Meka”
  • Malay: “Makkah al-Mukarramah”
  • Malay: “Makkah”
  • Malay: “Mekah”
  • Malay: “مكة المكرمة”
  • Malay: “مكة”
  • Malayalam: “മക്ക”
  • Maltese: “Mekka”
  • Manipuri: “ꯃꯦꯛꯀꯥ”
  • Manx: “Mecca”
  • Marathi: “मक्का”
  • Mazanderani: “مکه”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Mecca”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Makka”
  • Minangkabau: “Makah”
  • Mingrelian: “მექა”
  • Mirandese: “Meca”
  • Mongolian: “Мекка”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “مكة”
  • N'Ko: “ߓߞߊ߫”
  • N'Ko: “ߛߎ߰ߘߎ߬ߟߊ߫ ߛߏ ߘߏ߫ ߟߋ߬”
  • N'Ko: “ߛߏ߫ ߞߎ߲߬ߠߊ߬ߝߎ߬ߟߋ߲߬ߣߍ߲”
  • N'Ko: “ߡߞߊ߫ ߡߊߓߏ߲߬ߧߊ߬ߣߍ߲”
  • N'Ko: “ߡߞߊ߫”
  • Nepali: “मक्का”
  • Newari: “मक्का”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mekka”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mekka”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mekka”
  • Norwegian: “Mekka”
  • Nyanja: “Mecca”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “La Mèca”
  • Ossetian: “Меккæ”
  • Pampanga: “Meka”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੱਕਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Mekka”
  • Persian: “مكة المكرّمة”
  • Persian: “مکه”
  • Picard: “El Mèke”
  • Piemontese: “La Mëcca”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Meka”
  • Polish: “Mekka”
  • Portuguese: “Meca”
  • Pushto: “مکه مکرمه”
  • Pushto: “مکه”
  • Quechua: “Makka”
  • Romanian: “Mecca”
  • Russia Buriat: “Мекка”
  • Russian: “Благородная Мекка”
  • Russian: “Мекка-эль-Мукаррама”
  • Russian: “Мекка”
  • Rusyn: “Мекка”
  • Samogitian: “Meka”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱚᱠᱠᱟ”
  • Saraiki: “مکہ”
  • Scots: “Mecca”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Mecca”
  • Serbian: “Мека”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Meka”
  • Sicilian: “Mecca”
  • Silesian: “Mekka”
  • Sindhi: “مڪو”
  • Sinhala: “මක්කම”
  • Slovak: “Mekka”
  • Slovenian: “Meka”
  • Somali: “Makka”
  • Somali: “Mekka”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مکه”
  • Spanish: “La Meca”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵎⴰⴽⴽⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Mekah”
  • Swahili: “Makka”
  • Swedish: “Mecka”
  • Swedish: “Mekka”
  • Swiss German: “Mekka”
  • Sylheti: “ꠝꠇ꠆ꠇꠣ ꠘꠉꠞꠤ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠝꠇ꠆ꠇꠣ ꠡꠞꠤꠚ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠝꠇ꠆ꠇꠣ”
  • Tachelhit: “Makka”
  • Tagalog: “Meka”
  • Tajik: “Макка”
  • Tajik: “Маккаи мукаррама”
  • Tajik: “Маккаи Олиҳиммат”
  • Talysh: “Məkkə”
  • Tamil: “உம்முல் குறா”
  • Tamil: “பக்கா”
  • Tamil: “மக்கம்”
  • Tamil: “மக்கா”
  • Tamil: “மக்காத்துல் முகர்ரமா”
  • Tamil: “மெக்கா”
  • Tatar: “Mäkkä”
  • Tatar: “Мәккә”
  • Telugu: “మక్కా”
  • Thai: “มักกะฮ์”
  • Tibetan: “མ་ཁ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Mekka”
  • Turkish: “Bakka”
  • Turkish: “Mekke-i Mükerreme”
  • Turkish: “Mekke”
  • Turkmen: “Mekge”
  • Twi: “Bakkah”
  • Twi: “Makkah al-Mukarramah”
  • Twi: “Mecca”
  • Twi: “Umm al-Qurā”
  • Uighur: “Mekke”
  • Uighur: “مەككە”
  • Ukrainian: “Макараба”
  • Ukrainian: “Макка”
  • Ukrainian: “Мекка”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Mekka”
  • Urdu: “البلد الامین”
  • Urdu: “الحرم”
  • Urdu: “ام القریٰ”
  • Urdu: “بکہ”
  • Urdu: “مقدس دار الحکومت”
  • Urdu: “مکہ المکرمہ”
  • Urdu: “مکہ شریف”
  • Urdu: “مکہ مکرمہ”
  • Urdu: “مکہ”
  • Uzbek: “Makka”
  • Venetian: “Ła Meca”
  • Veps: “Mekk”
  • Vietnamese: “Makkah”
  • Vietnamese: “Mecca”
  • Volapük: “Mäkkä”
  • Võro: “Meka”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mecca”
  • Welsh: “Mecca”
  • Western Armenian: “Մեքքա”
  • Western Frisian: “Mekka”
  • Western Panjabi: “مکہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “麦加”
  • Yakut: “Мекка”
  • Yiddish: “מעקא”
  • Yoruba: “Mẹ́kkà”
  • Yue Chinese: “麥加”
  • “‘A Mecca”
  • “’A Mecca”
  • “Meka”
  • “मक्का”

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