Kharg Island

Kharg Island, also spelled Khark Island and often referred to as the "Forbidden Island", is a continental of in the . The island is 25 kilometres off the coast of Iran and 660 kilometres northwest of the .
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in Bushehr County, Iran
  • Also known as: “Chárag”, “Charkas”, “Harg”, “Hárg-sziget”, “Hark Adası”, “Ile de Kharg”, “Île de Khark”, “illa de Kharg”, “Insula Interzisă”, “Insula Karak”, “Isla Kharg”, “islla de Kharg”, “Isola di Kharg”, “Jarg”, “Jārg”, “Jarq”, “Jarq uhartea”, “Jazīrat Khārg”, “karak”, “Karak”, “Karak uhartea”, “Kareek”, “Karg”, “Karrack”, “Khārij”, “khark”, “Khark”, “Khark uhartea”, “Khark-øya”, “The Forbidden Island”, “האי ח’ארכ”, “ח’ארכ”, “جزيرة خارک”, “جزیرهٔ خارک”, “خارګ ټاپو”, and “カーグ島”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Palmyran Grave, Kharg and Khark Island Airport.

Archaeological site
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is an archaeological site.

Aerodrome
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Kharg Airport is a regional airport located in city of , Bushehr Province, in southern .

Tomb
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is a tomb.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kharg.

Town
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is a city in, and the capital of, District in , province, .

Kharg Island

Latitude
29.24583° or 29° 14′ 45″ north
Longitude
50.31583° or 50° 18′ 57″ east
Population
10,000
Elevation
32 metres (105 feet)
IATA airport code
KHK
UN/LOCODE
IR KHK
Open location code
7HXG68W8+88
Geo­Names ID
127757
Wiki­data ID
Q913355
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kharg Island” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Chark-eiland”
  • Arabic: “خارج”
  • Arabic: “خارک”
  • Armenian: “Խարկ”
  • Asturian: “Kharg”
  • Azerbaijani: “Xarg adası”
  • Basque: “Kharg uhartea”
  • Belarusian: “Харк”
  • Bengali: “খার্গ দ্বীপ”
  • Catalan: “Kharg”
  • Cebuano: “Jazīreh-ye Khārk”
  • Central Kurdish: “دوورگەی خارگ”
  • Chinese: “哈尔克岛”
  • Chinese: “哈爾克島”
  • Croatian: “Hark”
  • Czech: “Chárg”
  • Danish: “Kharg”
  • Dutch: “Kharg”
  • Esperanto: “Ĥark”
  • Estonian: “Khārgi saar”
  • Finnish: “Kharg”
  • French: “Kharg”
  • German: “Charg”
  • Greek: “Χαργκ”
  • Hausa: “Tsibirin Kharg”
  • Hebrew: “ח’ארג”
  • Hungarian: “Hárg”
  • Icelandic: “Kharg-eyja”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Kharg”
  • Interlingue: “Kharg”
  • Irish: “Oileán Kharg”
  • Italian: “Kharg”
  • Japanese: “ハールク島”
  • Korean: “하르그섬”
  • Kurdish: “Xark”
  • Lao: “ເກາະຄາຣ໌ກ”
  • Latin: “Insula Charga”
  • Latvian: “Hārka”
  • Lithuanian: “Chargas”
  • Malagasy: “Kharg (nosy)”
  • Malagasy: “Kharg”
  • Mazanderani: “جزیره خارک”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kharg”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kharg”
  • Norwegian: “Kharg”
  • Papiamento: “Kharg”
  • Persian: “جَزيرَت خارگ”
  • Persian: “جزيره خارك”
  • Persian: “جَزيرِۀ خارگ”
  • Persian: “جزیره خارک”
  • Persian: “جزیره خارگ”
  • Polish: “Chark”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Kharg”
  • Pushto: “خارگ ټاپو”
  • Romanian: “Insula Kharg”
  • Russian: “Харк”
  • Serbian: “Харг (острво)”
  • Serbian: “Харг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hark”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Jarg”
  • Swahili: “Kharg Island”
  • Swedish: “Kharg ö”
  • Swedish: “Kharg”
  • Swiss German: “Charg”
  • Tamil: “கார்க் தீவு”
  • Telugu: “ఖార్గ్ ద్వీపం”
  • Thai: “เกาะฆอร์ก”
  • Turkish: “Harg Adası”
  • Ukrainian: “Харк”
  • Yue Chinese: “夏茖島”

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Places to explore: Bāgh-e Shāh and Bāgh-e Pīr Mard.

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Highlights: Imamzadeh Mir Muhammad Hanafieh and Kūh-e Dīdeh Bānī.

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