Iran
Caspian Iran
Golestan Province

Gorgan

Gorgan is a city in the Central District of Gorgan County, 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”, “Asterābād”, “Astrabad”, “Gūrgān”, and “Gurgen”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Golestan University and Gorgan University.

University
is a public university located in Gorgan, a large city bordering the Caspian Sea, in the province of Golestan, in north-eastern .

University
of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, a.k.a. , is a university in Golestan Province of .

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

Gorgan

Latitude
36.8393° or 36° 50′ 21″ north
Longitude
54.4321° or 54° 25′ 56″ east
Population
330,000
Elevation
140 metres (459 feet)
IATA airport code
GBT
Open location code
8H8PRCQJ+PR
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: “أستراباد”
  • Arabic: “أستراباذ”
  • Arabic: “استرآباد”
  • Arabic: “استراباد”
  • Arabic: “جرجان”
  • Arabic: “كركان”
  • Armenian: “Գորգան”
  • Asturian: “Gorgán”
  • Azerbaijani: “Gürgan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qorqan”
  • Basque: “Gorgan”
  • Belarusian: “Астрабад”
  • Belarusian: “Гарган”
  • Bengali: “গরগ্যান”
  • Bulgarian: “Горган”
  • Catalan: “Gorgan”
  • Catalan: “Província d’Astarabad”
  • Cebuano: “Gorgān”
  • Central Kurdish: “گورگان”
  • Chinese: “Gorgan”
  • Chinese: “戈尔干”
  • Chinese: “戈尔甘”
  • Chinese: “戈爾甘”
  • Chinese: “阿斯塔拉巴德”
  • Croatian: “Astarabad”
  • Croatian: “Gorgan”
  • Czech: “Gorgan”
  • Czech: “Gorgán”
  • Danish: “Gorgan”
  • Dutch: “Gorgan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جرجان”
  • Esperanto: “Gurgan”
  • Esperanto: “Gurgano”
  • Esperanto: “Hirkanio”
  • Estonian: “Asterabad”
  • Estonian: “Astrabad”
  • Estonian: “Gorgan”
  • Estonian: “Gorgān”
  • Finnish: “Astarabad”
  • Finnish: “Gorgan”
  • Finnish: “Gorgān”
  • French: “Asterabad”
  • French: “Astrabad”
  • French: “Gorgan”
  • French: “Gourgan”
  • Galician: “Gorgan”
  • Georgian: “გორგანი”
  • Georgian: “თურანთეფე”
  • German: “Astarabad”
  • German: “Astarābād”
  • German: “Dschurdschān”
  • German: “Gorgan”
  • German: “Hyrcanian”
  • Gilaki: “گؤرگان”
  • Gilaki: “گۊرگان”
  • Greek: “Γκοργκάν”
  • Gujarati: “ગોર્ગન”
  • Hebrew: “גורגאן”
  • Hebrew: “גרגאן”
  • Hindi: “गुर्गान”
  • Hindi: “गोर्गान”
  • Hungarian: “Gorgán”
  • Indonesian: “Gorgan”
  • Irish: “Gorgan”
  • Italian: “Astarabad”
  • Italian: “Asterabad”
  • Italian: “Gorgan”
  • Japanese: “グルガーン”
  • Japanese: “ゴルガーン”
  • Kannada: “ಗೂರ್ಗಾನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಗೊರ್ಗನ್”
  • 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: “Vərgan”
  • Mazanderani: “استارآباد”
  • Mazanderani: “استاروا”
  • Mazanderani: “استرآباد”
  • Mazanderani: “گرگان”
  • Mazanderani: “ورگان”
  • Mazanderani: “ورگون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gorgan”
  • Mingrelian: “გორგანი”
  • Mongolian: “Горган”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gorgaan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Astarabad”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gorgan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gorgan”
  • Norwegian: “Gorgan”
  • Ossetian: “Горган”
  • Persian: “اَستِر آباد”
  • Persian: “استرآباد”
  • Persian: “استراباد”
  • Persian: “زادراکرته”
  • Persian: “گرگان”
  • Persian: “گورگان”
  • Persian: “وهرکانه”
  • Polish: “Gorgan”
  • Portuguese: “Gorgan”
  • Portuguese: “Gurgã”
  • Portuguese: “Zadracarta”
  • Romanian: “Gorgan”
  • Russian: “Астрабад”
  • Russian: “Астрабат”
  • Russian: “Горган”
  • Russian: “Джурджан”
  • Scots: “Gorgan”
  • Serbian: “Горган”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gorgan”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gurgan”
  • Silesian: “Gorgan”
  • Sinhala: “ගොර්ගන්”
  • Slovenian: “Gorgan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “گورگان”
  • Spanish: “Gorgan”
  • Spanish: “Gorgán”
  • Spanish: “Gurgan”
  • Spanish: “Gurgān”
  • Swedish: “Gorgan”
  • Tajik: “Gurgon”
  • Tajik: “Гургон”
  • Tamil: “கோர்கான்”
  • Tatar: “Гөрган”
  • Telugu: “గోర్గాన్”
  • Thai: “โกร์กอน”
  • Turkish: “Cürcan”
  • Turkish: “Esterabad”
  • Turkish: “Gürgan”
  • Turkish: “گرگان”
  • Turkmen: “Gürgen”
  • Ukrainian: “Астрабад”
  • Ukrainian: “Астрабат”
  • Ukrainian: “Верґен”
  • Ukrainian: “Горган”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґорган”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґорґан”
  • Ukrainian: “Джурджан”
  • 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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