Sowhān
Sowhan is a village in Pain Taleqan Rural District of the Central District in Taleqan County, Alborz province, Iran.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 113 residents
- Description: village in Iran
- Also known as: “Souhan” and “Sowhan, Alborz”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Taleqan Dam.
Taleqan Dam
Dam
Photo: Nimadavoudi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Taleqan Dam is a hydroelectric dam in Iran with an installed electricity generating capability of 18 MW. It is one of the five main water sources for the Tehran metropolitan. it is situated in Alborz Province. downstream of Alborz province and incorporates a pipe line to Hashtgerd. Taleqan Dam is situated 4 km south of Sowhān.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rowshanabdar and Shahrasar.
Rowshanabdar
Village
Photo: Alireza Javaheri, CC BY 3.0.
Rowshnabdar is a village in Pain Taleqan Rural District of the Central District in Taleqan County, Alborz province, Iran. Rowshanabdar is situated 2½ km southwest of Sowhān.
Shahrasar
Village
Shahrasar is a village in, and the capital of, Pain Taleqan Rural District in the Central District of Taleqan County, Alborz province, Iran. Shahrasar is situated 3½ km southwest of Sowhān.
Lahran
Village
Lahran is a village in Pain Taleqan Rural District of the Central District in Taleqan County, Alborz province, Iran. Lahran is situated 4 km west of Sowhān.
Sowhān
- Category: locality
- Location: Alborz, Western Iran, Iran, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
36.22077° or 36° 13′ 15″ northLongitude
50.65002° or 50° 39′ 0″ eastPopulation
113Elevation
2,027 metres (6,650 feet)Open location code
8H8G6MC2+82OpenStreetMap ID
node 3292316835OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
113817Wikidata ID
Q5824508
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Sowhān” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سوهان (طالقان)”
- Arabic: “سوهان”
- Chinese: “Sowhan”
- Dutch: “Sowhan, Alborz”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سوهان”
- Malay: “Sowhan, Alborz”
- Malay: “Sowhan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sowhan (Alborz)”
- Persian: “Sūhān”
- Persian: “سوهان (ساوجبلاغ)”
- Persian: “سوهان”
- Russian: “Соухан”
- Uzbek: “Sovhan”
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Highlights include Kash village mosque and Kash village lawn.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sowhān”. Photo: Alireza Javaheri, CC BY 3.0.