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Mecca

Saudi Arabian city and capital of the Makkah province
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Mecca

Summary

Mecca is a holy city of Islam[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 holy city of Islam[6].
  • Mecca's instance of is recorded as holy city[7].
  • Mecca's instance of is recorded as human settlement[8].
  • Mecca's official language is recorded as Arabic[9].
  • Mecca's twinned administrative body is recorded as Medina[10].
  • Mecca's Commons category is recorded as Mecca[11].
  • Mecca's local dialing code is recorded as 1[12].
  • Mecca's coordinate location is recorded as {'latitude': 21.4225, 'longitude': 39.826111111111}[13].
  • Mecca's significant event is recorded as Siege of Mecca[14].
  • Mecca's official website is recorded as https://holymakkah.gov.sa[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': '+1675368'}[18].
  • Mecca has a population of {'amount': '+1700000'}[19].
  • Mecca has a population of {'amount': '+1534731'}[20].
  • Mecca has a population of {'amount': '+820724'}[21].
  • Mecca has a population of {'amount': '+714007'}[22].
  • Mecca has a population of {'amount': '+2427924'}[23].
  • Mecca's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[24].
  • Mecca's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25].
  • Mecca's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[26].
  • Mecca's described by source is recorded as Islamskiy entsiklopedicheskiy slovar'[27].

Body

Geography

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

Physical Characteristics

Population counts include {'amount': '+1675368'}[18], {'amount': '+1700000'}[19], {'amount': '+1534731'}[20], {'amount': '+820724'}[21], {'amount': '+714007'}[22], and {'amount': '+2427924'}[23].

Designation and Status

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

Cultural Significance

Things named for Mecca include Mecca[28], a census-designated place in the United States[29], in United States[30]; Meccan surah[31]; Al-Balad[32], a surah[33]; Mecca-Cola[34], founded in 2002[35]; and Mecca Time[36], a technical standard[37].

Why It Matters

Mecca has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2] Mecca is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]

Entities named for Mecca include Mecca[28], a census-designated place in the United States[29], in United States[30]; Meccan surah[31]; Al-Balad[32], a surah[33]; Mecca-Cola[34], founded in 2002[35]; and Mecca Time[36], a technical standard[37].

Related Entities

Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib Abbasid Caliphate Abd al-Aziz Ibn Baz Abd Allah ibn Abbas Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr Abd Allah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab Abd al-Muttalib Abdullah ibn Masud Abdullah I of Jordan Abdur Rahman bin Awf Abu Bakr Abū Lahab Abul Kalam Azad Abu Sufyan ibn Harb Abu Talib ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib Adnan Khashoggi Aisha Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib Al-Mansur Al-Wathiq Aminah Ammar ibn Yasir 'Amr ibn al-'As Amr ibn Hisham Asmā' bint Abu Bakr Faisal I of Iraq Fatima Ghazi of Iraq Hafsa bint Umar ibn Al-Khattab Hamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [33] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [35] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [37] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [38] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 26d ago · GregMcCollum · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Cantic id → 981061300231306706
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P9984]]: 981061300231306706, add P9984 claim: 981061300231306706"
  2. 7w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official language → Arabic
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47647|batch #47647]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  3. 10w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Hamlet
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q27178, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
  4. 13w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → holy city of Islam, holy city, human settlement
    Has characteristic → tourist attraction
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39782|batch #39782]]: Move Q570116 from P31 -> P1552"
  5. 15w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → mecca
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: mecca, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289948187|mecca (#289948187)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  6. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0346139-Mekka-Saudska-Arabie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0346139-Mekka-Saudska-Arabie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  7. 19w ago · Սահակ · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → https://holymakkah.gov.sa, https://hmm.gov.sa
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ [[Property:P856]]: https://hmm.gov.sa"
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