sentences:  It is the only Governorate (excluding Damascus) that does not border a foreign country.Measures of its area vary from 8,844 km² to 8,883 km², with its capital being the city of Hama.Hama has historically been a centre of opposition to the Assad regime, and it was the centre of an uprising in the late 1970s - early 1980s that resulted in the 1982 Hama massacre.