Karun

The Karun is the river with the highest water flow, and the country's only navigable river. It is 950 km long. The Karun rises in the Zard Kuh mountains of the Bakhtiari district in the Zagros Range, receiving many tributaries, such as the Dez and the Kuhrang.
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  • Stream
  • Description: river in Iran
  • Also known as
    “Karoon”
    “Karoon River”
    “Karun River”
    “Karūn Rūd”
    “Rūd-e Kārūn”
    “Rudkhaneh-ye Karun”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Jameh Mosque of Khorramshahr.
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Khorramshahr and Minushahr.
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is a city in, and the capital of, Minu… is situated 10 km southeast of Karun.

Karun

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Latitude
30.42784° or 30° 25′ 40″ north
Longitude
48.16588° or 48° 9′ 57″ east
Open location code
8H2CC5H8+49
Geo­Names ID
128508
Wiki­data ID
Q461557

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Karun” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نهر قارون”
  • Arabic: “نهر كارون”
  • Armenian: “Քարուն (գետ)”
  • Armenian: “Քարուն”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Karun”
  • Azerbaijani: “Karun”
  • Basque: “Karun”
  • Belarusian: “Карун”
  • Bengali: “কারুন”
  • Bulgarian: “Карун”
  • Catalan: “Doǰayl”
  • Catalan: “Pasitigris”
  • Catalan: “Pasitrigris”
  • Catalan: “Riu Karun”
  • Cebuano: “Rūdkhāneh-ye Kārūn”
  • Central Kurdish: “کاروون”
  • Chinese: “卡仑河”
  • Chinese: “卡伦河”
  • Chinese: “卡侖河”
  • Chinese: “卡倫河”
  • Chuvash: “Карун”
  • Croatian: “Karun”
  • Czech: “Karún”
  • Dutch: “Karoen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر كارون”
  • Esperanto: “Karun”
  • Esperanto: “Karuno”
  • Esperanto: “Rivero Karuno”
  • Finnish: “Karun”
  • French: “Karoun”
  • French: “Karun”
  • French: “Rivière Karun”
  • Georgian: “ქარუნი”
  • German: “Karun”
  • German: “Ulai-Strom”
  • Hebrew: “כארון”
  • Hindi: “करुण नदी”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Karun”
  • Irish: “Karun”
  • Italian: “Karun”
  • Japanese: “カールーン川”
  • Korean: “카룬강”
  • Latin: “Pasitigris”
  • Lithuanian: “Karūnas”
  • Macedonian: “Карун”
  • Malagasy: “Karun (ony)”
  • Malagasy: “Karun”
  • Malayalam: “കരുൺ”
  • Mazanderani: “کارون”
  • Mingrelian: “ქარუნი”
  • Northern Luri: “کارۊن”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karun-elven”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karun”
  • Norwegian: “Karun”
  • Ossetian: “Карун”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਰੁਣ ਨਦੀ”
  • Persian: “رود کارون”
  • Persian: “رودخانهٔ کارون”
  • Persian: “كَرون رود”
  • Persian: “كَرون”
  • Persian: “کارون”
  • Polish: “Karun”
  • Portuguese: “Ab-kuren”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Carum”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Karun”
  • Romanian: “Râul Karun”
  • Russian: “Карун”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱟᱨᱩᱱ ᱜᱟᱰᱟ”
  • Scots: “Karun”
  • Serbian: “Karún”
  • Serbian: “Гихон”
  • Serbian: “Карун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Karun”
  • Slovenian: “Karun”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کارون چایی”
  • Spanish: “Kārūn”
  • Spanish: “Río Karún”
  • Swedish: “Karun”
  • Tajik: “Darjoi Karun”
  • Tajik: “Дарёи Карун”
  • Tajik: “Карун”
  • Tamil: “காருன் ஆறு”
  • Telugu: “కరూన్ నది”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำคอรูน”
  • Turkish: “Karun Nehri”
  • Turkish: “Karun”
  • Ukrainian: “Карун”
  • Urdu: “کارون دریا”
  • Uzbek: “Qarun”
  • Venetian: “Fiume Karún”
  • Welsh: “Afon Karun”

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