Qaen County
Qaen County is in South Khorasan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Qaen, known as "The Capital of Saffron."…
- Type: county of Iran with 116,000 residents
- Description: county in South Khorasan Province, Iran
- Also known as: “comté de Qaen”, “Gayin şehristanı”, “Kaenat şehristanı”, “préfecture de Qaen”, “Qa’en”, “شهرستان قاینات”, and “قاینات”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Ghayen Great Mosque.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Qayen and Shahik.
Firuzabad, Qaen
Village
Firuzabad is a village in Qaen Rural District, in the… Firuzabad, Qaen is situated 5 km northeast of Qaen County.
Qaen County
- Location: South Khorasan Province, Iran, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.7243° or 33° 43′ 28″ north
Longitude
59.1721° or 59° 10′ 20″ east
Population
116,000
Elevation
1,462 metres (4,797 feet)
Open location code
8H5XP5FC+PR
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Qaen County” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة قائنات”
- Azerbaijani: “Qainat şəhristanı”
- Cebuano: “Shahrestān-e Qā’en”
- Central Kurdish: “شارستانی قاینات”
- Chechen: “Къаен (шахӀрестан)”
- Chechen: “Къаен”
- Dutch: “Qaen County”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شهرستان قائنات”
- French: “préfecture de Ghayen”
- French: “Préfecture de Ghayen”
- German: “Qaen (Verwaltungsbezirk)”
- German: “Qaen”
- Gilaki: “شهرستان قائنات”
- Hebrew: “מחוז כאיין”
- Hungarian: “Káenát megye”
- Irish: “Contae Qaen”
- Italian: “shahrestān di Qa’enat”
- Italian: “Shahrestān di Qa’enat”
- Japanese: “ガーエナート郡”
- Kurdish: “Qaenat (şaristan)”
- Kurdish: “Qaenat”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Qaen Kūn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Qaen fylke”
- Persian: “Qā’en”
- Persian: “Qā’enāt”
- Persian: “Shahrestān-e Qā’en”
- Persian: “Shahrestān-e Qā’enāt”
- Persian: “شهرستان قائن”
- Persian: “شهرستان قائنات”
- Persian: “قائن”
- Persian: “قائنات”
- Pushto: “قائنات ولسوالي”
- Russian: “Кайен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kajenski okrug”
- South Azerbaijani: “قائنات بؤلگهسی”
- Swedish: “Qaenat”
- Tajik: “Şahristoni Qoin”
- Tajik: “Шаҳристони Қоин”
- Turkish: “Gain şehristanı”
- Urdu: “شہرستان قائنات”
- Welsh: “Sir Qaen”
- Western Panjabi: “شہرستان قاینات”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Mazār-e Farrokhābād and Zebar.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Qal‘eh-ye Ḩaẕerābād and Mount Qaen.
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