Iran
Central Iran
Yazd

Shir Kuh

Shir Kuh or Shirkuh is a high peak in central about 40 km south-west of the city of in .
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 4,044 metres
  • Description: mountain in Taft County, Iran
  • Also known as: “Kuh-e Shir Kuh”, “Kūh-e Shīr Kūh”, “Lion Mountain”, “Mount Shir (Yazd Province)”, and “Shir-kuh”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bardestan and Jan Barazan.

Village
is a village in Pishkuh Rural District, in the Central District of Taft County, Yazd Province, . At the 2006 census, its population was 88, in 38 families.

Village
Photo: Hadi Karimi, CC BY 3.0.
is a village in Shirkuh Rural District, in the Central District of Taft County, Yazd Province, . At the 2006 census, its population was 290, in 84 families.

Village
is a village in Pishkuh Rural District, in the Central District of Taft County, Yazd Province, . At the 2006 census, its population was 59, in 24 families.

Shir Kuh

Latitude
31.60561° or 31° 36′ 20″ north
Longitude
54.06772° or 54° 4′ 4″ east
Elevation
4,044 metres (13,268 feet)
Open location code
8H3PJ349+63
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4425460409
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
114952
Wiki­data ID
Q7498197
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“Shir Kuh” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شيركوه”
  • Belarusian: “Шыркух”
  • Catalan: “Sīr Kūh”
  • Cebuano: “Kūh-e Shīr Kūh”
  • Chinese: “狮山”
  • Czech: “Šír Kúh”
  • Czech: “Šírkúh”
  • Dutch: “Kūh-e Shīr Kūh”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كوه شير كوه”
  • French: “Shir Kuh”
  • Ladin: “Mont Shir”
  • Mongolian: “Ширкух”
  • Persian: “شیرکوه (یزد)”
  • Persian: “شیرکوه”
  • Persian: “كوه شير كوه”
  • Russian: “Шир-Кух”
  • Slovak: “Šír Kúh”
  • Slovak: “Šír-kúh”
  • Slovak: “Šírkúh”
  • Swedish: “Kūh-e Shīr Kūh”

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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 “Shir Kuh”. Photo: Micol.sky, CC BY-SA 4.0.