Gorgan

Gorgan is a city in the Central District of , province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. It lies approximately 400 km to the northeast of the national capital , and some 30 km away from the Caspian Sea.
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  • Type: City with 330,000 residents
  • Description: city in Golestan Province, Iran
  • Also known as: “Astarabad”, “Astarābād”, “Asterabad”, “Asterābād”, “Astrabad”, “Cürcan”, “Dschurdschān”, “Gourgan”, “Gurgān”, “Gūrgān”, “Gurgen”, “Hyrcanian”, “Província d’Astarabad”, “Vərgan”, “Zadracarta”, “Астрабад”, “Астрабат”, “Верґен”, “Ґорґан”, “Джурджан”, “თურანთეფე”, “أستراباد”, “أستراباذ”, “استارآباد”, “استاروا”, “استرآباد”, “استراباد”, “زادراکرته”, “ورگان”, “ورگون”, “وهرکانه”, “グルガーン”, and “阿斯塔拉巴德”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Golestan University and Gorgan University.

University
is a public university located…

University
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Railway station
Photo: Mani1, Public domain.
is a railway station.

Gorgan

Latitude
36.8377° or 36° 50′ 16″ north
Longitude
54.4394° or 54° 26′ 22″ east
Population
330,000
Elevation
140 metres (459 feet)
IATA airport code
GBT
Open location code
8H8PRCQQ+3Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2074455167
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
132892
Wiki­data ID
Q188155
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Gorgan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جرجان”
  • Arabic: “كركان”
  • Armenian: “Գորգան”
  • Asturian: “Gorgán”
  • Azerbaijani: “Gürgan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qorqan”
  • Basque: “Gorgan”
  • Belarusian: “Гарган”
  • Bengali: “গরগ্যান”
  • Bulgarian: “Горган”
  • Catalan: “Gorgan”
  • Cebuano: “Gorgān”
  • Central Kurdish: “گورگان”
  • Chinese: “戈尔干”
  • Chinese: “戈尔甘”
  • Chinese: “戈爾甘”
  • Croatian: “Gorgan”
  • Czech: “Gorgán”
  • Danish: “Gorgan”
  • Dutch: “Gorgan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جرجان”
  • Esperanto: “Gurgan”
  • Esperanto: “Gurgano”
  • Esperanto: “Hirkanio”
  • Estonian: “Gorgān”
  • Finnish: “Gorgān”
  • French: “Gorgan”
  • Galician: “Gorgan”
  • Georgian: “გორგანი”
  • German: “Gorgan”
  • Gilaki: “گؤرگان”
  • Gilaki: “گۊرگان”
  • Greek: “Γκοργκάν”
  • Gujarati: “ગોર્ગન”
  • Hebrew: “גורגאן”
  • Hebrew: “גרגאן”
  • Hindi: “गुर्गान”
  • Hindi: “गोर्गान”
  • Hungarian: “Gorgán”
  • Indonesian: “Gorgan”
  • Irish: “Gorgan”
  • Italian: “Gorgan”
  • Japanese: “ゴルガーン”
  • Kannada: “ಗೂರ್ಗಾನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಗೊರ್ಗನ್”
  • Kashmiri: “گرگان”
  • Kazakh: “Gorgan”
  • Kazakh: “Горган”
  • Kazakh: “گورگان”
  • Korean: “고르간”
  • Kurdish: “Gurgan, Gulistan”
  • Kurdish: “Gurgan”
  • Kurdish: “گورگان”
  • Latin: “Gorgan”
  • Latvian: “Gorgana”
  • Latvian: “Gorgāna”
  • Lithuanian: “Gorganas”
  • Malagasy: “Gorgan”
  • Malay: “Gorgan”
  • Malayalam: “ഗോർഗൻ”
  • Maori: “Gorgan”
  • Maori: “Korakana”
  • Marathi: “गोरगन”
  • Mazanderani: “گرگان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gorgan”
  • Mingrelian: “გორგანი”
  • Mongolian: “Горган”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gorgaan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gorgan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gorgan”
  • Norwegian: “Gorgan”
  • Ossetian: “Горган”
  • Persian: “اَستِر آباد”
  • Persian: “گرگان”
  • Persian: “گورگان”
  • Polish: “Gorgan”
  • Portuguese: “Gorgan”
  • Portuguese: “Gurgã”
  • Romanian: “Gorgan”
  • Russian: “Горган”
  • Scots: “Gorgan”
  • Serbian: “Горган”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gorgan”
  • Silesian: “Gorgan”
  • Sinhala: “ගොර්ගන්”
  • Slovenian: “Gorgan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “گورگان”
  • Spanish: “Gorgan”
  • Spanish: “Gorgán”
  • Swedish: “Gorgan”
  • Tajik: “Gurgon”
  • Tajik: “Гургон”
  • Tamil: “கோர்கான்”
  • Tatar: “Гөрган”
  • Telugu: “గోర్గాన్”
  • Thai: “โกร์กอน”
  • Turkish: “Esterabad”
  • Turkish: “Gürgan”
  • Turkmen: “Gürgen”
  • Ukrainian: “Горган”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґорган”
  • Urdu: “گرگان”
  • Uzbek: “Goʻrgon (shahar)”
  • Uzbek: “Goʻrgon”
  • Venetian: “Gorgan”
  • Vietnamese: “Gorgan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gorgan”
  • Western Panjabi: “گرگان”
  • Wu Chinese: “戈尔甘”

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