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Hamadan

Hamadan is one of the oldest cities in , and some believe the world. The city became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2024.
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  • Type: City with 526,000 residents
  • Description: city in Hamadan Province, Iran
  • Also known as: “Hamedan” and “Hamedān”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tomb of Esther and Mordechai and Avicenna Mausoleum.

Photo: Simorg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a tomb located in Hamadan, . Iranian Jews and Iranian Christians believe it houses the remains of the biblical Queen Esther and her cousin Mordechai, and it is the most important pilgrimage site for Jews and Christians in Iran.

Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Afshin khani, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Mausoleum of Avicenna, also known as the Tomb of Abu Ali Sina, is a mausoleum and history museum complex, located at Avicenna Square, in the city of Hamadan, in the province of , .

Photo: Hosein ronasi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The َ, also known as the Tomb of Baba Taher, is a mausoleum, located in Baba Tahir Square in the city of Hamadan, in the province of , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ecbatana and Maryanaj.

Locality
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was an ancient city, the capital of the Median kingdom, and the first capital in Iranian history. It later became the summer capital of the Achaemenid and Parthian empires.

Neighborhood
is a city in the Central District of Hamadan County, province, .

Hamadan

Latitude
34.7993° or 34° 47′ 57″ north
Longitude
48.5152° or 48° 30′ 55″ east
Population
526,000
Elevation
1,820 metres (5,971 feet)
IATA airport code
HDM
United Nations Location Code
IR HDM
Open location code
8H6CQGX8+P3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27557313
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
132144
Wiki­data ID
Q28587
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Hamadan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مدينة همدان”
  • Arabic: “مدينه همدان”
  • Arabic: “همدان”
  • Arabic: “همذان”
  • Armenian: “Համադան”
  • Avaric: “ХӀамадан”
  • Azerbaijani: “Həmədan şəhəri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Həmədan”
  • Bashkir: “Хәмәдан”
  • Basque: “Ekbatana”
  • Basque: “Hamadan”
  • Belarusian: “Хамадан”
  • Bengali: “হামাদান”
  • Bulgarian: “Хамадан”
  • Bulgarian: “Хамаданска област”
  • Catalan: “Hamadan”
  • Catalan: “Hamedan”
  • Cebuano: “Ecbatana”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھەمەدان”
  • Chechen: “Хамадан”
  • Chinese: “Hamadan”
  • Chinese: “哈馬丹”
  • Chinese: “哈马丹”
  • Croatian: “Hamadan”
  • Croatian: “Hamedan”
  • Czech: “Ekbatana”
  • Czech: “Hagmatana”
  • Czech: “Hamadán”
  • Danish: “Hamedan”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Hemedan”
  • Dutch: “Ecbatana”
  • Dutch: “Ekbatana”
  • Dutch: “Hamadan”
  • Dutch: “Hamedan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “همدان”
  • Esperanto: “Hamadan”
  • Esperanto: “Hamadano”
  • Finnish: “Hamadan”
  • Finnish: “Hamedan”
  • French: “Ahmadan”
  • French: “Hamadan”
  • French: “Hamadhan”
  • French: “Hamedan”
  • Galician: “Hamadán”
  • Georgian: “ჰამადანი”
  • German: “Hamadan”
  • Greek: “Αχμαντάν”
  • Greek: “Χαμαντάν”
  • Gujarati: “હમાદાન”
  • Hebrew: “אקבטנה”
  • Hebrew: “המדאן”
  • Hindi: “हमादान”
  • Hungarian: “Ekbatana”
  • Hungarian: “Hamadán”
  • Indonesian: “Hamedan”
  • Irish: “Hamadan”
  • Italian: “Ecbatana”
  • Italian: “Hamadan”
  • Japanese: “ハマダーン”
  • Japanese: “ハマダン”
  • Japanese: “ハメダン”
  • Kannada: “ಹಮದಾನ್”
  • Kashmiri: “ہَمدان”
  • Korean: “하마단”
  • Kurdish: “Hamedan”
  • Kurdish: “Hêgmetane”
  • Kurdish: “Hemedan”
  • Latin: “Ecbatana”
  • Latvian: “Hamadana”
  • Latvian: “Hamadāna”
  • Lithuanian: “Chamadanas”
  • Lithuanian: “Hamadanas”
  • Malagasy: “Hamedan”
  • Malay: “Hamadan”
  • Malayalam: “ഹമദാൻ”
  • Maori: “Hamadan”
  • Marathi: “ह्यॅमडॅन”
  • Mazanderani: “همدان”
  • Mazanderani: “همدون”
  • Mazanderani: “همیون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hamadan”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰამადანი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hamadan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hamedan”
  • Norwegian: “Hamadan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hamadan”
  • Ossetian: “Хамадан”
  • Panjabi: “ਹਮਦਾਨ”
  • Persian: “شهر همدان”
  • Persian: “کلانشهر همدان”
  • Persian: “هگمتانه”
  • Persian: “همدان”
  • Polish: “Hamadan”
  • Polish: “Hamedan”
  • Portuguese: “Hamadã”
  • Portuguese: “Hamadan”
  • Pushto: “همدان”
  • Romanian: “Hamadan”
  • Russian: “Хамадан”
  • Russian: “Хамедан”
  • Scots: “Hamedan”
  • Serbian: “Хамадан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hamadan”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hamedan”
  • Silesian: “Hamadan”
  • Sinhala: “හැමඩන්”
  • Slovak: “Achmata”
  • Slovak: “Achmatha”
  • Slovak: “Achmeta”
  • Slovak: “Achmetá”
  • Slovak: “Achmetha”
  • Slovak: “Agbatana”
  • Slovak: “Agbatána”
  • Slovak: “Ahmatan”
  • Slovak: “Akbatana”
  • Slovak: “Ectabanis Partiorum”
  • Slovak: “Egbatana”
  • Slovak: “Ekbatan”
  • Slovak: “Ekbatana”
  • Slovak: “Epifaneia”
  • Slovak: “Epifania”
  • Slovak: “Hagmatana”
  • Slovak: “Hagmatána”
  • Slovak: “Hamadán”
  • Slovak: “Hamatan”
  • Slovak: “Hamedán”
  • Slovak: “Hangmatána”
  • Slovenian: “Hamadan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “همدان”
  • Spanish: “Ecabatana”
  • Spanish: “Hamada n”
  • Spanish: “Hamada-n”
  • Spanish: “Hamadan”
  • Spanish: “Hamadán”
  • Spanish: “Hamadān”
  • Spanish: “Hamedan”
  • Swedish: “Hamadan”
  • Swedish: “Hamedan”
  • Tagalog: “Ecbatana”
  • Tagalog: “Ekbatana”
  • Tajik: “Хамадон”
  • Tajik: “Ҳамадон”
  • Tamil: “அமாதான்”
  • Tamil: “ஹாமடான்”
  • Tatar: “Һәмәдан”
  • Telugu: “హమెడాన్”
  • Thai: “แฮเมดอน”
  • Thai: “แฮแมดอน”
  • Turkish: “Hemedan şehri”
  • Turkish: “Hemedan”
  • Ukrainian: “Гамадан”
  • Ukrainian: “Хамадан”
  • Ukrainian: “המדאן”
  • Urdu: “ھمدان”
  • Urdu: “ہمدان”
  • Uzbek: “Hamadon”
  • Venetian: “Hamadan”
  • Vietnamese: “Hamadan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hamadan”
  • Welsh: “Hamadan”
  • Western Panjabi: “همدان”
  • Wolof: “Hamedan”
  • Wu Chinese: “哈马丹”
  • Yue Chinese: “哈馬丹”
  • “Hamadan”

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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 “Hamadan”. Photo: Amirr1367, CC BY-SA 3.0.