1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Syria
Compare this sourced profile of Homs, Syria before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Homs—775,404, Asia/Damascus, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: city in western Syria.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Homs is GeoNames ID 169577. Its recorded administrative path is Homs → Syria, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Homs occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-14; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Homs ranks 711 by recorded population. Inside the 5 selected Syria entries it ranks 3; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 144. Its 775,404 population value is 1.00 times the 775,404 median for the country cohort and 0.86 times the 902,588 regional median. Homs is rank 3 among the 5 selected Syria entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Homs's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Homs's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Latakia at 123.62 km with 709,000 recorded people; Damascus at 140.771 km with 1,569,394 recorded people; Beirut at 145.504 km with 1,916,100 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 21.884 km. Compared with Latakia, Homs's recorded population is 1.09 times as large. Against Homs, Latakia follows Latakia → Syria in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Syria cohort, uses the shared Asia/Damascus identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Homs's. Against Homs, Damascus follows Damascus Governorate → Syria in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Syria cohort, uses the shared Asia/Damascus identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Homs's. Against Homs, Beirut follows Beirut → Lebanon in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Lebanon cohort rather than Syria, uses Asia/Beirut instead of Asia/Damascus, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Homs's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 783 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Homs's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 169577, the coordinate pair 34.7241 / 36.7256, country rank 3 of 5, and neighbor GeoNames 173576 at 123.62 km bind Homs to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Homs's reference point is 34.7241° north and 36.7256° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Damascus is shared by 5 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Homs's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Homs's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Homs's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Homs, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Homs's closest other entries in this atlas are Latakia (123.62 km), Damascus (140.771 km), Beirut (145.504 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.