Mecca
Mecca is the holiest site of Islam. This city is the birthplace of Prophet Muhammed, the founder of Islam, and Muslims believe the Qu'ran was first revealed to Muhammad here.Photo: MrJoker07, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Al Jazeera English, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Kaaba
Photo: Aiman titi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Kaaba, also spelled Ka'ba, Ka'bah or Kabah, sometimes referred to as al-Ka'ba al-Musharrafa, is a stone building at the center of Islam's most important mosque and holiest site, the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Maqam Ibrahim
The Maqām Ibrāhīm is a small square stone associated with Ibrahim, Ismail and their building of the Kaaba in what is now the Great Mosque of Mecca in the Hejazi region of Saudi Arabia.AlHijr - Hateem
Photo: Al Jazeera English, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hijr-Ismail also known as Hateem, is a low wall originally part of the Kaaba.
Localities in the Area
Ajyad
Ajyad is a historic neighborhood of Mecca in Makkah Province, in western Saudi Arabia.Mecca
- Type: City with 1,530,000 residents
- Description: Saudi Arabian city and capital of the Makkah province
- Categories: tourist attraction, million city, holy city of Islam, holy city and locality
- Location: Mecca Region, Hejaz, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
21.4225° or 21° 25' 21" northLongitude
39.8262° or 39° 49' 34" eastPopulation
1,530,000Elevation
333 metres (1,093 feet)United Nations Location Code
SA MAKOpen Location Code
7GHXCRFG+2FOpenStreetMap ID
node 4308338842OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
104515Wikidata ID
Q5806Mecca Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Mekka
- Achinese: Meukah
- Adyghe: Меччэ
- Afar: Mekke
- Afrikaans: Mekka
- Albanian: Meka
- Amharic: መካ
- Arabic: Mecca
- Arabic: أم القرى
- Arabic: البلد الأمين
- Arabic: بكة
- Arabic: مكة
- Arabic: مكة المكرمة
- Arabic: مكه المكرمه
- Arabic: مكّة المكرمة
- Aragonese: A Meca
- Armenian: Մեքքա
- Assamese: মক্কা
- Asturian: La Meca
- Avaric: Макка
- Awadhi: मक्का
- Azerbaijani: Məkkə
- Balinese: Mekkah
- Bashkir: Мәккә
- Basque: Meka
- Belarusian: Мекка
- Belarusian: Мэка
- Bengali: মক্কা
- Bhojpuri: मक्का (शहर)
- Bosnian: Mekka
- Breton: Mekka
- Bulgarian: Мека
- Burmese: မက္ကာမြို့
- Burmese: မက္ကာဟ်မြို့တော်
- Catalan: La Meca
- Catalan: Makka
- Catalan: la Meca
- Cebuano: Meca
- Cebuano: Mecca
- Central Bikol: Meka
- Central Kurdish: مەککە
- Chechen: Макка
- Chinese: Makka
- Chinese: 麥加
- Chinese: 麦加
- Chuvash: Мекка
- Cornish: Mekka
- Corsican: A Mecca
- Corsican: Mecca
- Croatian: Meka
- Czech: Mekka
- Dagbani: Maka
- Danish: Mekka
- Dhivehi: މައްކާ
- Dimli (individual language): Meka
- Dotyali: मक्का
- Dutch: Mekka
- Egyptian Arabic: مكه
- English: Bakkah
- English: Holy City of Mecca
- English: Macoraba
- English: Makkah
- English: Makkah al-Mukarramah
- English: Makkah al Mukarramah
- English: Mecca (Saudi Arabia)
- English: Mother of All Settlements
- English: The Holy City of Mecca
- English: Umm al-Qurā
- English: mecca
- 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
- Galician: A Meca
- Gan Chinese: 麥加
- Georgian: მექა
- German: Mekka
- Gorontalo: Mekkah
- Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌺𐌰
- Greek: Μάκκα
- Greek: Μάκκα αλ-Μουκάραμα
- Greek: Μέκκα
- Greek: مكة المكرمة
- Guarani: Méka
- Gujarati: મક્કા
- Hausa: Makkah
- Hausa: Meka
- Hawaiian: Meka
- Hebrew: מכה
- Hindi: मकका
- Hindi: मका
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- 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
- Japanese: マッカ・アル=ムカッラマ
- Japanese: メッカ
- Javanese: Mekah
- Javanese: Mekkah
- Kabiyè: Maka
- Kabyle: Mekka
- Kalaallisut: Mekka
- Kannada: ಮೆಕ್ಕಾ
- Kara-Kalpak: Mekka
- Kashmiri: مَکہ
- Kazakh: Мекендердің анасы
- Kazakh: Мекке
- Kazakh: Уммуль Қура
- Khmer: ម៉ិកកា
- Kirghiz: Меке
- Korean: 메카
- Kurdish: Meke
- Ladin: Mecca
- Lak: Макка
- Lao: Meka
- 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
- Malay: Makkah al-Mukarramah
- Malay: Mekah
- Malay: مكة
- Malay: مكة المكرمة
- Malayalam: മക്ക
- Maltese: Mekka
- Manipuri: ꯃꯦꯛꯀꯥ
- Marathi: मक्का
- Mazanderani: مکه
- Min Dong Chinese: Mecca
- Min Nan Chinese: Makka
- Minangkabau: Makah
- Mingrelian: მექა
- Mirandese: Meca
- Mongolian: Мекка
- Mongolian: ꯃꯦꯛꯀꯥ
- Moroccan Arabic: مكة
- N'Ko: ߓߞߊ߫
- N'Ko: ߛߎ߰ߘߎ߬ߟߊ߫ ߛߏ ߘߏ߫ ߟߋ߬
- N'Ko: ߛߏ߫ ߞߎ߲߬ߠߊ߬ߝߎ߬ߟߋ߲߬ߣߍ߲
- N'Ko: ߡߞߊ߫
- N'Ko: ߡߞߊ߫ ߡߊߓߏ߲߬ߧߊ߬ߣߍ߲
- Nepali: मक्का
- Newari: मक्का
- Northern Frisian: Mekka
- Norwegian: Mekka
- Norwegian Bokmål: Mekka
- Norwegian Nynorsk: 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
- Quechua: Makka
- Romanian: Mecca
- Russia Buriat: Мекка
- Russian: Благородная Мекка
- Russian: Мекка-эль-Мукаррама
- Russian: Мекка
- Rusyn: Мекка
- Samogitian: Meka
- Santali: ᱢᱚᱠᱠᱟ
- Santali: ᱢᱮᱠᱠᱟ
- Saraiki: مکہ
- Scots: Mecca
- Scottish Gaelic: Mecca
- Serbian: Мека
- Serbo-Croatian: Makka
- 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
- Sundanese: Mekah
- Swahili: Makka
- Swedish: Mecka
- Swedish: Mekka
- Swiss German: Mekka
- Sylheti: ꠝꠇ꠆ꠇꠣ
- Sylheti: ꠝꠇ꠆ꠇꠣ ꠡꠞꠤꠚ
- Tachelhit: Makka
- Tagalog: Meka
- Tajik: Макка
- Tajik: Маккаи Олиҳиммат
- Tajik: Маккаи мукаррама
- 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
- Uighur: Mekke
- Uighur: مەككە
- Ukrainian: Макараба
- Ukrainian: Макка
- Ukrainian: Мекка
- Upper Sorbian: Mekka
- Urdu: مکہ
- Urdu: مکہ المکرمہ
- Urdu: مکہ شریف
- Urdu: مکہ مکرمہ
- Uzbek: Makka
- Venetian: Ła Meca
- Veps: Mekk
- 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
- Makkah al Mukarraman
Other Places Named Mecca
In the Area
- Al Qararah wa an NaqaNeighbourhood
- Ash ShubaykahNeighbourhood
- As SulaymaniyahNeighbourhood
- JarwalNeighbourhood
- At TundubawiNeighbourhood
- Ar RawabiNeighbourhood
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