Ghorian
Ghurian is a city and the administrative center of Ghurian District in Herat Province, Afghanistan. It is 790 m high with a population of more than 54,000 people.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town
- Description: human settlement in Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Ghoriān”, “Ghoriyan”, “Ghōriyān”, “Ghōṟyān”, “Ghurian”, “Ghūrīān”, “Ghuriyan”, “Ghūriyān”, “Ghuryan”, “Ghūryān”, “Gorian”, and “غوریان”
Ghorian
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Ghurian District, Herat Province, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.34505° or 34° 20′ 42″ northLongitude
61.49343° or 61° 29′ 36″ eastElevation
796 metres (2,612 feet)Open location code
8J638FWV+29OpenStreetMap ID
node 3898201674OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Tatar—“Ghorian” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غوريان”
- Asturian: “Ghurian”
- Asturian: “Gurian”
- Bavarian: “Ghurian”
- Bengali: “ঘুরিয়ান”
- Catalan: “Ghurian”
- Chinese: “古里安”
- Danish: “Ghurian”
- Dutch: “Gurian”
- Estonian: “Ghōryān”
- French: “Gurian”
- German: “Ghurian”
- Irish: “Ghurian”
- Italian: “Ghoryan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ghurian”
- Norwegian: “Ghurian”
- Persian: “غوریان، افغانستان”
- Polish: “Ghorjan”
- Portuguese: “Ghurian”
- Romanian: “Gurian”
- Russian: “Гуриан”
- Spanish: “Ġūrīān”
- Swedish: “Ghoryan”
- Tatar: “Гуриян”
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