Mecca

Summary

Mecca is a tourist attraction^[1]. Mecca has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[2]

Key Facts

• Mecca is located in Mecca Province^[3].
• Mecca is in the country of Saudi Arabia^[4].
• Mecca's head of government is recorded as Khalid bin Faisal^[5].
• Mecca's instance of is recorded as tourist attraction^[6].
• Mecca's instance of is recorded as holy city of Islam^[7].
• Mecca's instance of is recorded as holy city^[8].
• Mecca's instance of is recorded as human settlement^[9].
• Mecca's twinned administrative body is recorded as Medina^[10].
• Mecca's Commons category is recorded as Mecca^[11].
• Mecca's located in time zone is recorded as UTC+03:00^[12].
• Mecca's local dialing code is recorded as 1^[13].
• Mecca's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 21.4225, 'lon': 39.826111111111}^[14].
• Mecca's significant event is recorded as Siege of Mecca^[15].
• Mecca's official website is recorded as https://hmm.gov.sa/^[16].
• Mecca's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Mecca^[17].
• Mecca has a population of {'amount': '+2427924'}^[18].
• Mecca's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[19].
• Mecca's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[20].
• Mecca's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng^[21].
• Mecca's described by source is recorded as Islamskiy entsiklopedicheskiy slovar'^[22].
• Mecca's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia^[23].
• Mecca's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[24].
• Mecca's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[25].
• Mecca's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia^[26].
• Mecca's capital of is recorded as Mecca Province^[27].

Body

Geography

Mecca is in the country of Saudi Arabia^[4]. Mecca is located in Mecca Province^[3].

Physical Characteristics

Mecca covers an area of {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+760'}^[28]. Mecca sits at an elevation of {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+277'}^[29]. Mecca has a population of {'amount': '+2427924'}^[18].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include tourist attraction^[6], holy city of Islam^[7], holy city^[8], and human settlement^[9].

Cultural Significance

Things named for Mecca include Mecca-Cola^[30], founded in 2002^[31]; Meccan surah^[32]; Al-Balad^[33], a surah^[34]; Mecca^[35], a census-designated place in the United States^[36], in United States^[37]; and Mecca Time^[38], a technical standard^[39].

Why It Matters

Mecca has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[2] Mecca is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[40]

Entities named for Mecca include Mecca-Cola^[30], founded in 2002^[31]; Meccan surah^[32]; Al-Balad^[33], a surah^[34]; Mecca^[35], a census-designated place in the United States^[36], in United States^[37]; and Mecca Time^[38], a technical standard^[39].