Taftan
Taftan is an active stratovolcano in south-eastern Iran in the Sistan and Baluchestan province. With variable heights reported, all around 4,000 metres above sea level, it is the highest mountain in south-eastern Iran.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: نیکات, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 3,941 metres
- Description: volcano mountain in Iran
- Also known as: “Kuh-e Taftan”, “Kūh-e Taftān”, “Kūh-i-Chehiltān”, “Kūh-i-Taftān”, “Kūhhā-ye Taftān”, “Mount Taftan”, “Ziarat”, and “زیارت”
Taftan
- Categories: mountain, Iranian National Natural Heritage, and landform
- Location: Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
28.60056° or 28° 36′ 2″ northLongitude
61.13372° or 61° 8′ 1″ eastElevation
3,941 metres (12,930 feet)Open location code
7JW3J42M+6FOpenStreetMap ID
node 4393146844OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Taftan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل تفتان”
- Basque: “Taftan”
- Belarusian: “Вулкан Тафтан”
- Belarusian: “Тафтан”
- Catalan: “kūh-e Taftān”
- Cebuano: “Kūh-e Taftān”
- Chinese: “塔夫坦火山”
- Croatian: “Taftan”
- Czech: “Taftan”
- Dutch: “Kūh-e Taftān”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تفتان”
- Esperanto: “Taftan”
- French: “Taftan”
- German: “Taftan”
- Hebrew: “טאפטן”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Taftan”
- Japanese: “タフターン山”
- Ladin: “Mont Taftan”
- Macedonian: “Тефтан”
- Malayalam: “തഫ്താൻ”
- Mazanderani: “تفتان”
- Persian: “اثر طبیعی ملی ایران”
- Persian: “کوه تفتان”
- Polish: “Taftan”
- Russian: “Тафтан”
- Russian: “Тефтан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Taftan”
- Slovak: “Kúh-e Taftán”
- South Azerbaijani: “تفتان”
- Spanish: “Kuh-i-Taftan”
- Spanish: “Kuh-i-Taftán”
- Swedish: “Kūh-e Taftān”
- Ukrainian: “Тафтан”
- Ukrainian: “Тефтан”
- Urdu: “کوہ تفقان”
- Western Panjabi: “کوہ تفقان”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Taftan”. Photo: نیکات, CC BY-SA 3.0.