Middle East
Iran
Markazi Province

Arak

Arak, also known as Soltan Abad, is a major industrial city of 550,000 and the capital of Province in .
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  • Type: City with 592,000 residents
  • Description: city in Markazi Province, Iran
  • Also known as: “‘Irāq”, “Arak, Iran”, “Solţānābād”, and “Sultānābād”
Photo: Hamid Hajihusseini, CC BY 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Four Seasons Bathhouse and Arak.

Museum
Photo: Kiantavakoli, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Four-Season Bathhouse in the city Arak dates back to the Qajar period, and had two separate sections for ladies and gents. The tile-work of the clock room and spinal designed columns of this area, including the layout of the bath are interesting features.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.
is a railway station.

Commercial area
Photo: Kiantavakoli, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a bazaar in Arak, , . It was one of the first constructed buildings in the city. The bazaar complex, containing a public bath, a mosque, water reservoirs, passages and caravansary, was built during the reign of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar and by Yusef Khan-e Gorji, in the middle of Sultan Abad.

Arak

Latitude
34.0863° or 34° 5′ 11″ north
Longitude
49.6894° or 49° 41′ 22″ east
Population
592,000
Elevation
1,738 metres (5,702 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IR ARA
Open location code
8H6F3MPQ+GQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4698589016
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
143127
Wiki­data ID
Q212628
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Arak” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “آراك”
  • Arabic: “أراك”
  • Arabic: “اراك”
  • Arabic: “الآراك”
  • Armenian: “Արաք”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ərak”
  • Basque: “Arak”
  • Belarusian: “Эрак”
  • Breton: “Arak”
  • Bulgarian: “Арак”
  • Catalan: “Arak”
  • Cebuano: “Arāk (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Arāk”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەراک”
  • Chinese: “Arak”
  • Chinese: “阿拉克”
  • Croatian: “Arak”
  • Czech: “Arák”
  • Danish: “Arak”
  • Dutch: “Arak”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “آراك”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اراك”
  • Esperanto: “Arak”
  • Esperanto: “Arako”
  • Finnish: “Arak”
  • Finnish: “Sultanabad”
  • French: “Arak”
  • French: “Soltan Abad”
  • French: “Soltanabad”
  • Galician: “Arak - ساوه”
  • Galician: “Arak”
  • Georgian: “არაქი”
  • German: “Arak”
  • Gilaki: “أراک”
  • Hebrew: “אראכ”
  • Hebrew: “אראק”
  • Hindi: “अराक”
  • Hungarian: “Arák”
  • Indonesian: “Arak, Iran”
  • Indonesian: “Arak”
  • Irish: “Arak”
  • Italian: “Arak”
  • Italian: “Arāk”
  • Italian: “Soltan-abad”
  • Japanese: “アラーク”
  • Kannada: “ಆರಾಕ್”
  • Korean: “아라크”
  • Kurdish: “Erak”
  • Kurdish: “ئەراک”
  • Latvian: “Arāka”
  • Lithuanian: “Arakas”
  • Lithuanian: “Erakas”
  • Malagasy: “Arak”
  • Malay: “Arak, Iran”
  • Malay: “Arak”
  • Malayalam: “അറാക്ക്”
  • Maori: “Arak”
  • Maori: “Araka, Īrāna”
  • Mazanderani: “اراک”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Arak”
  • Mingrelian: “არაქი”
  • Moksha: “Эрак”
  • Northern Frisian: “Araak”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Arak”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Arak”
  • Norwegian: “Arak”
  • Ossetian: “Эрак”
  • Persian: “اراک”
  • Persian: “ساوه”
  • Persian: “سُلطان آباد”
  • Persian: “شهر اراک”
  • Persian: “کلان شهر اراک”
  • Polish: “Arak”
  • Polish: “Sultanabad”
  • Portuguese: “Arak”
  • Portuguese: “Araque”
  • Quechua: “Arak”
  • Quechua: “Soltan-abad”
  • Romanian: “Arak”
  • Russian: “Арак”
  • Russian: “Солтанабад”
  • Russian: “Эрак”
  • Scots: “Arak, Iran”
  • Scots: “Arak”
  • Serbian: “Арак”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Arak”
  • Slovenian: “Arak”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اراک”
  • Spanish: “Arak”
  • Spanish: “Arāk”
  • Spanish: “Soltan abad”
  • Spanish: “Soltan-abad”
  • Spanish: “Sultanabad”
  • Swedish: “Arak”
  • Tajik: “Arok”
  • Tajik: “Арoк”
  • Tajik: “Арак”
  • Tajik: “Арок”
  • Tamil: “அராக்”
  • Tatar: “Әрак”
  • Thai: “Arak”
  • Thai: “แอรอก”
  • Turkish: “Arak”
  • Turkish: “Erak”
  • Ukrainian: “Ерак”
  • Urdu: “اراک”
  • Uzbek: “Arok”
  • Venetian: “Arak”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Arak, Iran”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Arak”
  • Welsh: “Arak”
  • Western Frisian: “Arak”
  • Western Panjabi: “اراک”
  • Wolof: “Arak, Iran”
  • Wolof: “Arak”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿拉克”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿拉克”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Arak”. Photo: Wikimedia, FAL.