Bam

Bam is a city in , . This modern Iranian city surrounds the Arg-é Bam citadel which has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Bam was devastated during an earthquake in December 2003 and is still being rebuilt.
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  • Type: City with 127,000 residents
  • Description: city in Kerman Province, Iran
  • Also known as: “Arg-é Bam”, “Bam e sua paisagem cultural”, “Bam, Iran”, “Bam, İran”, “Zitadelle von Bam”, “באם”, “البم”, “کجاران”, and “บัม”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Arg-e Bam.

Photo: Arad, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , located in the city of Bam, 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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Espigan and Posht Roud.

Village
is a village in Kork and Nartich Rural District of Baravat District, , province, .

Village
Poshtrud is a village in, and the capital of, Kork and Nartich Rural District of Baravat District, , province, .

Town
is a city in, and the capital of, District of , province, .

Bam

Latitude
29.106° or 29° 6′ 22″ north
Longitude
58.3566° or 58° 21′ 24″ east
Population
127,000
Elevation
1,061 metres (3,481 feet)
IATA airport code
BXR
UN/LOCODE
IR BXR
Open location code
7HXW4944+9J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 32678002
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
141736
Wiki­data ID
Q106636
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Bam” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بم”
  • Armenian: “Բամ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bəm”
  • Basque: “Bam”
  • Bengali: “বাম, ইরান”
  • Bengali: “বাম”
  • Catalan: “Bam”
  • Cebuano: “Bam”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەم”
  • Chinese: “巴姆”
  • Croatian: “Bam”
  • Czech: “Bam”
  • Danish: “Bam”
  • Dutch: “Bam”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بم”
  • Esperanto: “Bam”
  • Finnish: “Bam”
  • French: “Bam”
  • Georgian: “ბამი”
  • German: “Bam”
  • Greek: “Μπαμ”
  • Gujarati: “બામ”
  • Hebrew: “בם”
  • Hindi: “बम, ईरान”
  • Hindi: “बम”
  • Hindi: “बाम”
  • Hungarian: “Bam”
  • Indonesian: “Bam”
  • Irish: “Bam”
  • Italian: “Bam”
  • Japanese: “バム”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಮ್”
  • Kazakh: “Bam”
  • Kazakh: “Бам”
  • Kazakh: “بام”
  • Korean: “밤”
  • Kurdish: “Bem”
  • Latvian: “Bama”
  • Lithuanian: “Bamas”
  • Low German: “Bam”
  • Macedonian: “Бам”
  • Malagasy: “Bam, Iran”
  • Malagasy: “Bam”
  • Malay: “Bam”
  • Malayalam: “ബാം, ഇറാൻ”
  • Malayalam: “ബാം”
  • Marathi: “बॅम”
  • Mazanderani: “بم”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bam”
  • Mongolian: “Бам”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bam”
  • Norwegian: “Bam”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bam”
  • Persian: “بم”
  • Polish: “Bam”
  • Portuguese: “Bam”
  • Romanian: “Bam”
  • Russian: “Бам”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bam”
  • Sinhala: “බෑම්”
  • Slovak: “Bam”
  • Slovenian: “Bam, Iran”
  • Slovenian: “Bam”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بم”
  • Spanish: “Bam”
  • Swedish: “Bam”
  • Tajik: “Bam”
  • Tajik: “Бам”
  • Tamil: “பம், ஈரான்”
  • Tamil: “பம்”
  • Tatar: “Бәм”
  • Telugu: “బామ్”
  • Thai: “แบม”
  • Turkish: “Bem”
  • Ukrainian: “Бам”
  • Urdu: “بم، ایران”
  • Urdu: “بم”
  • Uzbek: “Bam”
  • Venetian: “Bam”
  • Vietnamese: “Bam, Iran”
  • Vietnamese: “Bam”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bam, Iran”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bam”
  • Western Frisian: “Bam”
  • Western Panjabi: “بم”

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