Şiran
Şiran is a town in Gümüşhane Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. It is the seat of Şiran District. Its population is 11,539. It is one of the points of passage between Eastern Anatolia and Black Sea regions of Turkey, in the sense that the western road departing from Erzincan towards the Zigana Pass has its last urban stop in Şiran.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 27,100 residents
- Description: district and town of Gümüşhane, Turkey
- Also known as: “Karaca”, “Siran”, “Şiryan”, and “Xeríana”
Şiran
- Category: locality
- Location: Şiran District, Gümüşhane Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
40.18983° or 40° 11′ 23″ northLongitude
39.12523° or 39° 7′ 31″ eastPopulation
27,100Elevation
1,424 metres (4,672 feet)Open location code
8GGX54QG+W3OpenStreetMap ID
node 208670009OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
739574Wikidata ID
Q390578
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Şiran” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شيران”
- Armenian: “Կարաջա”
- Asturian: “Şiran (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Şiran”
- Azerbaijani: “Şiran”
- Cebuano: “Şiran”
- Chechen: “Ширан”
- Chinese: “Şiran”
- Chinese: “希兰”
- Chinese: “希蘭”
- Danish: “Şiran”
- Dimli (individual language): “Şiran”
- Dutch: “Şiran”
- Faroese: “Şiran”
- French: “Şiran”
- German: “Şiran”
- Gilaki: “شيران (شأر)”
- Gilaki: “شيران”
- Greek: “Χεροίανα”
- Hungarian: “Şiran”
- Indonesian: “Şiran”
- Irish: “Şiran”
- Italian: “Distretto di Şiran”
- Japanese: “シラン”
- Kalaallisut: “Şiran”
- Kurdish: “Şiran”
- Kurdish: “Wîkîpediya:Zazakî/Şiran”
- Malay: “Şiran”
- Mazanderani: “شیران (شهر)”
- Mazanderani: “شیران”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Şiran”
- Minangkabau: “Şiran”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Şiran”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Şiran”
- Norwegian: “Şiran”
- Persian: “شیران (شهر)”
- Persian: “شیران”
- Russian: “Ширан”
- Serbian: “Ширан”
- Swahili: “Şiran”
- Swedish: “Şiran”
- Tatar: “Ширан”
- Turkish: “Siran, Gümüşhane”
- Turkish: “Şiran”
- Ukrainian: “Шіран”
- Urdu: “شیران”
- Vietnamese: “Şiran”
- Western Mari: “Ширан”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع شیران”
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