Babol
Babol is a city in the Caspian region of Iran, north-east of Tehran and about 30 km from Sari. It is the chief commercial centre of Mazandaran Province and was once the major trading center of northern Iran.
- Type: City with 220,000 residents
- Description: city in Mazandaran Province, Iran
- Also known as: “Bābul”, “Balfrush”, “Barfarusch”, “Barfarush”, “Barfrush”, “Bârfrüsh”, “Barfuruş”, “Barfurush”, “Bārfurush”, “Barfurush-dih”, “Μπαρφορουσντέχ”, “Μπαρφρούτς”, “Бальфруш”, “Бальфуруш”, “بابُل”, “بارفروش”, “مامطیر”, “바르포로쉬”, and “巴波尔”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aghuzbon and Soltan Mohammad-e Taher.
Babol
- Categories: city of Iran, big city, and locality
- Location: Mazandaran, Caspian Iran, Iran, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
36.5453° or 36° 32′ 43″ north
Longitude
52.6847° or 52° 41′ 5″ east
Population
220,000
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Open location code
8H8JGMWM+4V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Babol” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بابل”
- Armenian: “Բաբոլ”
- Azerbaijani: “Babül”
- Basque: “Babol”
- Belarusian: “Баболь”
- Breton: “Babol”
- Bulgarian: “Бабол”
- Catalan: “Babul”
- Cebuano: “Bābol”
- Central Kurdish: “بابۆل”
- Chinese: “巴博勒”
- Croatian: “Babol”
- Czech: “Bábol”
- Danish: “Babol”
- Dutch: “Babol”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بابل”
- Esperanto: “Babol”
- Finnish: “Babol”
- French: “Babol”
- German: “Babol”
- German: “Bābol”
- Gilaki: “بابل”
- Greek: “Μπαμπόλ”
- Hebrew: “באבול”
- Hindi: “बाबुल”
- Hindi: “बाबोल”
- Hungarian: “Bábol”
- Irish: “Babol”
- Italian: “Babol”
- Japanese: “バーボル”
- Kannada: “ಬಾಬುಲ್”
- Kazakh: “Babolʹ”
- Kazakh: “Баболь”
- Kazakh: “بابول”
- Korean: “바볼”
- Kurdish: “Babol”
- Latvian: “Bābola”
- Lithuanian: “Babolis”
- Malagasy: “Babol”
- Mazanderani: “بابل”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Babol”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Babol”
- Norwegian: “Babol”
- Ossetian: “Баболь”
- Persian: “بابل”
- Polish: “Babol”
- Portuguese: “Babol”
- Pushto: “بابول”
- Romanian: “Babol”
- Russian: “Баболь”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Babol”
- Silesian: “Babol”
- South Azerbaijani: “بابول (شهر)”
- South Azerbaijani: “بابول”
- Spanish: “Babol”
- Swedish: “Babol”
- Tajik: “Bobul”
- Tajik: “Бобул”
- Tatar: “Бабөл”
- Turkish: “Babol”
- Ukrainian: “Бабол”
- Urdu: “بابل، مازندران”
- Uzbek: “Babol shahri”
- Uzbek: “Babol”
- Waray (Philippines): “Babol”
- Western Panjabi: “بابل”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: میدان گلشن and Kuye Police.
Caspian Iran: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: Rasht and Sari.
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