Meshkan
Meshkan is a city in, and the capital of, Meshkan District of Neyriz County, Fars province, Iran. It also serves as the administrative center for Meshkan Rural District. The city is the merger of the villages of Meshkan and Shahrak-e Shahid in 2002.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 3,610 residents
- Description: city in Fars province, Iran
- Also known as: “Mishkūn”, “Moshgān”, and “Moshkān”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Behuyeh.
Behuyeh
Village
Behuyeh is a village in Deh Chah Rural District, Poshtkuh District, Neyriz County, Fars province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 359, in 90 families. Behuyeh is situated 9 km east of Meshkan.
Meshkan
- Categories: city of Iran and locality
- Location: Fars, Central Iran, Iran, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
29.47648° or 29° 28′ 35″ northLongitude
54.33431° or 54° 20′ 4″ eastPopulation
3,610Elevation
2,234 metres (7,329 feet)Open location code
7HXPF8GM+HPOpenStreetMap ID
node 4459619467OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
123216Wikidata ID
Q602606
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Meshkan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مشكان”
- Azerbaijani: “Meşkan”
- Cebuano: “Meshkān”
- Central Kurdish: “مەشکان”
- Chinese: “Meshkan”
- Dutch: “Meshkan”
- Irish: “Meshkan”
- Italian: “Moshkan”
- Kurdish: “Mêşkan”
- Malagasy: “Meshkan”
- Malay: “Meshkan”
- Mazanderani: “مشکان (نیریز)”
- Mazanderani: “مشکان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Meshkan”
- Persian: “مشکان”
- Russian: “Мошкан”
- South Azerbaijani: “مشکان (نیریز)”
- South Azerbaijani: “مشکان”
- Swedish: “Meshkān”
- Turkish: “Meşkan”
- Urdu: “مشکان”
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