Nearby localities include Suran to the southwest, Murik to the northwest, al-Tamanah to the north, Atshan to the northeast, Tuleisa to the east, Fan al-Shamali to the southeast and Kawkab to the south.

[2] Ma'an was sold by the Mawali, a semi-Bedouin tribe in central Syria, to the Kaylani notable family of Hama.

The inhabitants of Ma'an, as of the early 1930s, were Sunni Muslim Arab tenant farmers.

Built of basaltic stone, it consists of two stories and contains warehouses, stables, kitchens and a courtyard.

[5] In late December 2012, during the Syrian civil war, Islamist rebel fighters from the al-Nusra Front took over large parts of the town as part of a wider offensive in the Hama Governorate.