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.- Type: Town with 27,100 residents
- Description: district and town of Gümüşhane, Turkey
- Also known as: “Karaca”, “Siran”, “Şiran (distritu)”, “Siran, Gümüşhane”, “Şiryan”, and “Xeríana”
Şiran
- Category: locality
- Location: Şiran District, Gümüşhane Province, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
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Latitude
40.18983° or 40° 11′ 23″ north
Longitude
39.12523° or 39° 7′ 31″ east
Population
27,100
Elevation
1,424 metres (4,672 feet)
Open location code
8GGX54QG+W3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Şiran” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شيران”
- Armenian: “Կարաջա”
- Asturian: “Şiran”
- Azerbaijani: “Şiran”
- Cebuano: “Şiran”
- Chechen: “Ширан”
- 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: “Χερίανα”
- Greek: “Χεροίανα”
- Hungarian: “Şiran”
- Indonesian: “Şiran”
- Irish: “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”
- Spanish: “Şiran”
- Swahili: “Şiran”
- Swedish: “Şiran”
- Tatar: “Ширан”
- Turkish: “Şiran”
- Ukrainian: “Шіран”
- Urdu: “شیران”
- Vietnamese: “Şiran”
- Western Mari: “Ширан”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع شیران”
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