Arg-e Bam

The Arg-e Bam, located in the city of , of southeastern , is the largest building in the world. The entire building was a large fortress containing the citadel, but because the citadel dominates the ruins, the entire fortress is now named Bam Citadel.
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  • Tourist attraction
  • …lies at an elevation of around 1,050 metres (3,440 feet)
  • Description: citadel in Bam, Iran
  • Also known as
    “Arg-e Qadīm-e Bam”
    “Bam Citadel”
    “Qal‘eh-ye Arg”

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Arg-e Bam

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Latitude
29.11571° or 29° 6′ 57″ north
Longitude
58.36932° or 58° 22′ 10″ east
Open location code
7HXW4989+7P
Open­Street­Map ID
way 400586489
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
8181804
Wiki­data ID
Q43277

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Arg-e Bam” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “قلعة بم”
  • Armenian: “Արգ-է Բամ”
  • Asturian: “Arg-é Bam”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bəm qalası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ərqebəm qalası”
  • Bashkir: “Арг-е Бам”
  • Basque: “Arg-é Bam”
  • Belarusian: “Арг-э Бам”
  • Bengali: “আর্গ-ই বাম”
  • Bulgarian: “Арг-е Бам”
  • Catalan: “Arg-é Bam”
  • Catalan: “Ciutadella de Bam”
  • Chinese: “巴姆古城”
  • Chinese: “巴姆古堡”
  • Czech: “Arge Bám”
  • Dutch: “Arg-é Bam”
  • Esperanto: “Bam-Citadelo”
  • Esperanto: “Citadelo de Bam”
  • Finnish: “Arg-é Bam”
  • Finnish: “Bamin linna”
  • Finnish: “Bamin linnoitus”
  • French: “Arg-é Bam”
  • French: “Citadelle de Bam”
  • German: “Arg-é Bam”
  • Hebrew: “ארג-י בם”
  • Hebrew: “מצודת בם”
  • Indonesian: “Arg-é Bam”
  • Italian: “Arg-é Bam”
  • Japanese: “アルゲ・バム”
  • Korean: “아르게 밤”
  • Latvian: “Bamas citadele”
  • Macedonian: “Арг-е-Бам”
  • Macedonian: “Бамска тврдина”
  • Maithili: “बम आ ओकर सांस्कृतिक परिदृश्य”
  • Malay: “Arg-é Bam”
  • Maltese: “Arg-é Bam”
  • Maltese: “Ċittadella ta‘ Bam”
  • Mazanderani: “ارگ بم”
  • Nepali: “बम र उसको सांस्कृतिक परिदृश्य”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Arg-é Bam”
  • Panjabi: “ਆਰਗ ਏ ਬੈਮ”
  • Persian: “ارگ بم”
  • Persian: “ارگ قديم بم”
  • Polish: “Arg-e Bam”
  • Portuguese: “Arg-é Bam”
  • Russian: “Арг-е Бам”
  • Russian: “Арк-э-Бам”
  • Serbian: “Арг-е Бам”
  • Serbian: “Бам”
  • Serbian: “Цитадела Арг-е Бам”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bamska citadela”
  • Slovak: “Arg-e Bam”
  • Slovenian: “Bam s kulturno krajino”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بم ارگی”
  • Spanish: “Arg-é Bam”
  • Spanish: “Ciudadela de Bam”
  • Swedish: “Arg-é Bam”
  • Swedish: “Arg-é Qadim”
  • Swedish: “Citadellet i Bam”
  • Tajik: “Қалъаи Бам”
  • Telugu: “ఆర్గ్ ఇ బామ్”
  • Turkish: “Arg-ı Bem”
  • Ukrainian: “Арг-е Бам”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Arg-é Bam”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴姆古城”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴姆古城”

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