Iran
Caspian Iran
Mazandaran

Behshahr

Behshahr is a city of 95,000 on the coast of the Caspian Sea, at the foot of the Alborz mountains in the Caspian Region in .
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  • Type: Town with 90,000 residents
  • Description: city in Mazandaran Province, Iran
  • Also known as: “Ashraf” and “Ashraf ol Belād”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Altappeh.

Village
Al Tappeh is a village in Kuhestan Rural District, in the Central District of Behshahr County, Mazandaran Province, . At the 2016 census, its population was 1,930, in 605 families, up from 1,903 people in 2006. is situated 4 km east of Behshahr.

Behshahr

Latitude
36.6913° or 36° 41′ 29″ north
Longitude
53.5433° or 53° 32′ 36″ east
Population
90,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
Open location code
8H8MMGRV+G8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 338948436
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
140918
Wiki­data ID
Q814594
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Behshahr” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بهشهر”
  • Armenian: “Բեհշահր”
  • Azerbaijani: “Behşəhr”
  • Bengali: “বেহশাহর”
  • Catalan: “Behshahr”
  • Catalan: “Behxahr”
  • Cebuano: “Behshahr”
  • Central Kurdish: “بێھشەھر”
  • Chinese: “Behshahr”
  • Chinese: “貝赫沙赫爾”
  • Dutch: “Behshahr”
  • Finnish: “Behšahr”
  • French: “Behchahr”
  • French: “Behshahr”
  • German: “Behschahr”
  • German: “Behshahr”
  • Gilaki: “أشرف”
  • Gilaki: “أشرف‌البلاد”
  • Gilaki: “بهشهر”
  • Gilaki: “خرگۊران”
  • Hindi: “बेहशहर”
  • Hungarian: “Behsahr”
  • Irish: “Behshahr”
  • Italian: “Behshahr”
  • Japanese: “ベフシャフル”
  • Kazakh: “Бехшехр”
  • Kurdish: “Behşehr”
  • Lithuanian: “Behšahras”
  • Lithuanian: “Behšehras”
  • Malagasy: “Behshahr”
  • Malayalam: “ബെഹ്‌ഷഹർ”
  • Mazanderani: “اشرف”
  • Mazanderani: “اشرف‌البلاد”
  • Mazanderani: “بهشهر”
  • Mazanderani: “خرگوران”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Behshahr”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Behshahr”
  • Ossetian: “Бехшехр”
  • Persian: “اَشرَف”
  • Persian: “بهشهر”
  • Polish: “Behszahr”
  • Romanian: “Behshahr”
  • Russian: “Бехшехр”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Behšaher”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Behšahr”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بهشهر”
  • Spanish: “Behshahr”
  • Swedish: “Behshahr”
  • Tajik: “Беҳшаҳр”
  • Tajik: “Биҳшаҳр”
  • Turkish: “Behşehr”
  • Ukrainian: “Бехшахр”
  • Ukrainian: “Бехшехр”
  • Urdu: “بہشہر”
  • Uzbek: “Behshahr”
  • Western Panjabi: “بہشہر”

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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 “Behshahr”. Photo: AR VLD, CC BY-SA 4.0.