Bisotun

Bisotun is a city in, and the capital of, Bisotun District of , . It also serves as the administrative center for Chamchamal Rural District.
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  • Town with about 4,940 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 1,300 metres (4,260 feet)
  • Description: city in Kermanshah Province, Iran
  • Also known as
    “Behistan”
    “Bīsītan”
    “Bīsītūn”
    “Bisotoun”
    “Bistoon”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bisotun inscription.
Korosh.091, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Behistun inscription is a multilingual Achaemenid…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chambatan-e Sofla and Beznabad-e Sofla.
is a village in Cham Chamal Rural…
is a village in Cham Chamal Rural… is situated 3½ km southeast of Bisotun.
is a village in Cham Chamal Rural District… is situated 4 km south of Bisotun.

Bisotun

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Latitude
34.39957° or 34° 23′ 58″ north
Longitude
47.44483° or 47° 26′ 41″ east
Open location code
8H699CXV+RW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 819610900
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
140428
Wiki­data ID
Q740141

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Bisotun” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيستون”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bisütun”
  • Cebuano: “Bīsotūn”
  • Central Kurdish: “بێستوون”
  • Chinese: “比索通”
  • Czech: “Bísotún”
  • Dutch: “Behistun”
  • Esperanto: “Behistuno”
  • French: “Bisotun”
  • German: “Bisotun”
  • German: “Bisutun”
  • Hungarian: “Biszotun”
  • Indonesian: “Behistun”
  • Irish: “Bisotun”
  • Japanese: “ビーソトゥーン”
  • Kurdish: “Bêstûn”
  • Latin: “Bagistane”
  • Malagasy: “Bisotun”
  • Mazanderani: “بیستون (هرسین)”
  • Mazanderani: “بیستون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bisotun”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bisotun”
  • Norwegian: “Bisotun”
  • Persian: “بیستون”
  • Polish: “Bisotun”
  • Portuguese: “Beistum”
  • Portuguese: “Bisutun”
  • Pushto: “بيستون”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bisotun”
  • Slovenian: “Bisotun”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بیستون (هرسین)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بیستون”
  • Swedish: “Bīsotūn”
  • Tajik: “Бесутун”
  • Turkish: “Bisotun”
  • Turkish: “Bisütun”
  • Urdu: “بیستون”

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