Bam
Bam is a city in Kerman, Iran. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 127,000 residents
- Description: city in Kerman Province, Iran
- Also known as: “Bam, Iran” and “کجاران”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Arg-e Bam.
Arg-e Bam
Photo: Arad, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Arg-e Bam, located in the city of Bam, Kerman province of southeastern Iran, is the largest adobe 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 Posht Roud and Espigan.
Posht Roud
Village
Poshtrud is a village in, and the capital of, Kork and Nartich Rural District of Baravat District, Bam County, Kerman province, Iran.
Espigan
Village
Espigan is a village in Kork and Nartich Rural District of Baravat District, Bam County, Kerman province, Iran.
Baravat
Town
Baravat is a city in, and the capital of, Baravat District of Bam County, Kerman province, Iran.
Bam
- Categories: city of Iran, big city, aspect of history, and locality
- Location: Kerman, Central Iran, Iran, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.106° or 29° 6′ 22″ northLongitude
58.3566° or 58° 21′ 24″ eastPopulation
127,000Elevation
1,061 metres (3,481 feet)IATA airport code
BXRUnited Nations Location Code
IR BXROpen location code
7HXW4944+9JOpenStreetMap ID
node 32678002OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
141736Wikidata ID
Q106636
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Bam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “البم”
- Arabic: “بام”
- Arabic: “بم”
- Armenian: “Բամ”
- Azerbaijani: “Bəm”
- Basque: “Bam”
- Bengali: “বাম, ইরান”
- Bengali: “বাম”
- Catalan: “Bam”
- Cebuano: “Bam”
- Central Kurdish: “بەم”
- Chinese: “Bam”
- Chinese: “巴姆”
- Croatian: “Arg-é Bam”
- Croatian: “Bam”
- Czech: “Bam”
- Danish: “Bam”
- Dutch: “Bam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بم”
- Esperanto: “Bam”
- Finnish: “Bam”
- French: “Bam”
- Georgian: “ბამი”
- German: “Bam”
- German: “Zitadelle von Bam”
- Greek: “Μπαμ”
- Gujarati: “બામ”
- Hebrew: “באם”
- Hebrew: “בם”
- Hindi: “बम, ईरान”
- Hindi: “बम”
- Hindi: “बाम”
- Hungarian: “Bam”
- Indonesian: “Bam”
- Irish: “Bam”
- Italian: “Bam”
- Japanese: “بم”
- 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 e sua paisagem cultural”
- 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: “บัม”
- Thai: “แบม”
- Turkish: “Bam, İran”
- 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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