Bamiyan
Bamiyan is the main town in Bamiyan Province. Bamiyan is one of the main tourist attractions in Afghanistan, largely due to the giant destroyed Buddha statues.
Photo: Alexander Burnes, Public domain.
- Type: City with 61,900 residents
- Description: The Cradle of Hazara Civilization
- Also known as: “Bamian”, “Bamián”, “Bamiān”, “Bamīan”, “Bamīān”, “Bāmiān”, “Bamianas”, “Bamiján”, “Bamijana”, “Bāmijana”, “Bamiyān”, “Bāmiyān”, “Bamjana”, “Bāmjāna”, “Bamyan”, “Bamyian”, “Bomikon”, “Bomyanna”, “Kala Sarkari”, “Qal‘a Sarkārit”, “Qala Sarkāri”, “varmayana”, “بامیکان”, “बमयन”, “बामियाँ”, “ബാമിയൻ താഴ്വര”, “바미얀”, and “バーミアーン”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Buddhas of Bamiyan and Bamyan Airport.
Bamiyan
- Categories: small city, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Bamyan District, Bamyan, East Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.8156° or 34° 48′ 56″ north
Longitude
67.8315° or 67° 49′ 53″ east
Population
61,900
Elevation
2,550 metres (8,366 feet)
IATA airport code
BIN
UN/LOCODE
AF BIN
Open location code
8J69RR8J+6H
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Bamiyan” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ባሚያን”
- Arabic: “باميان”
- Arabic: “بامیان”
- Armenian: “Բամիան”
- Asturian: “Bamiyan”
- Asturian: “Bamiyán”
- Azerbaijani: “Bamyan”
- Basque: “Bamyan”
- Belarusian: “Баміян”
- Bengali: “বামিয়ান উপত্যকা”
- Bengali: “বামিয়ান”
- Bulgarian: “Бамян”
- Catalan: “Bamian”
- Cebuano: “Bāmyān (kapital sa lalawigan sa Apganistan)”
- Cebuano: “Bāmyān”
- Chinese: “巴米扬/巴米揚”
- Chinese: “巴米扬”
- Chinese: “巴米揚”
- Czech: “Bamján”
- Czech: “Bámján”
- Danish: “Bamiyan”
- Dutch: “Bamyan”
- Esperanto: “Bamijano”
- Estonian: “Bāmīān”
- Estonian: “Bāmyān”
- Finnish: “Bamiyan”
- French: “Bamiyan”
- French: “Bâmiyân”
- Georgian: “ბამიანი”
- German: “Bamiyan-Tal”
- German: “Bamiyan”
- German: “Bamyan”
- Greek: “Μπαμιάν”
- Greek: “Μπαμιγιάν”
- Gujarati: “બેમ્યાન”
- Hausa: “Bamyan”
- Hebrew: “באמיאן”
- Hindi: “बमियान”
- Hindi: “बामयान”
- Hindi: “बामियान”
- Hungarian: “Bámiján”
- Indonesian: “Bamiyan”
- Indonesian: “Bamyan, Afganistan”
- Indonesian: “Bamyan”
- Italian: “Bamiyan”
- Japanese: “バーミヤーン”
- Japanese: “バミヤン”
- Javanese: “Bamyan”
- Kannada: “ಬಮಯಾನ್”
- Kazakh: “Бамиан”
- Kirghiz: “Бамиан”
- Korean: “바미안”
- Latvian: “Bāmijāna”
- Lithuanian: “Bamijanas”
- Malay: “Bamyan”
- Malayalam: “ബാമിയാൻ”
- Marathi: “बामियान”
- Mongolian: “Бамиан хот”
- Mongolian: “Бамиан”
- Northern Frisian: “Baamijaan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bamiyan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bamiyan”
- Norwegian: “Bamiyan”
- Oromo: “Bamyan”
- Panjabi: “ਬਾਮਿਆਨ”
- Persian: “بامیان”
- Polish: “Bamian”
- Portuguese: “Bamiã”
- Portuguese: “Bamiyan”
- Portuguese: “Bamyan”
- Pushto: “باميان”
- Pushto: “بامیان”
- Romanian: “Bamiyan, Afganistan”
- Romanian: “Bamiyan”
- Russian: “Бамиан”
- Scots: “Bamyan”
- Sinhala: “බම්යන්”
- Slovenian: “Bamijan”
- Slovenian: “Bamjan”
- Somali: “Bamyan”
- Spanish: “Bamiyán”
- Spanish: “Bamyan”
- Swahili: “Bamyan”
- Swedish: “Bamiyan”
- Tajik: “Бомиён”
- Tamil: “பாமயன்”
- Tamil: “பாமியான்”
- Tatar: “Бамиан”
- Telugu: “బాంయాన్”
- Thai: “บอมียอน”
- Turkish: “Bamyan”
- Ukrainian: “Баміан”
- Urdu: “بامیان”
- Uzbek: “Bamion”
- Uzbek: “Bomiyon”
- Vietnamese: “Bamiyan”
- Vietnamese: “Bamyan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bamyan”
- Welsh: “Bamiyan”
- Yue Chinese: “巴米揚”
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