Hamadan
Hamadan is one of the oldest cities in Western Iran, and some believe the world. The city became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2024.
- Type: City with 526,000 residents
- Description: city in Hamadan Province, Iran
- Also known as: “Achmata”, “Achmatha”, “Achmeta”, “Achmetá”, “Achmetha”, “Agbatana”, “Agbatána”, “Ahmadan”, “Ahmatan”, “Akbatana”, “Chamadanas”, “Ecabatana”, “Ectabanis Partiorum”, “Egbatana”, “Ekbatan”, “Ekbatana”, “Epifaneia”, “Epifania”, “Hagmatana”, “Hagmatána”, “Hamada n”, “Hamada-n”, “Hamadān”, “Hamadhan”, “Hamatan”, “Hamedán”, “Hamedān”, “Hangmatána”, “Hêgmetane”, “Hemedan şehri”, “Həmədan şəhəri”, “Αχμαντάν”, “Хамаданска област”, “Хамадон”, “Хамедан”, “אקבטנה”, “شهر همدان”, “کلانشهر همدان”, “مدينة همدان”, “مدينه همدان”, “هگمتانه”, “همذان”, “همیون”, “ハマダン”, and “ハメダン”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Tomb of Esther and Mordechai and Avicenna Mausoleum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ecbatana and Maryanaj.
Maryanaj
Neighborhood
Maryanaj is a city in the Central District of Hamadan County, Hamadan province, Iran.
Hamadan
- Categories: city of Iran, big city, and locality
- Location: Central Western Iran, Western Iran, Iran, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
UN/LOCODE
IR HDM
Open location code
8H6CQGX8+P3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Hamadan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “همدان”
- Armenian: “Համադան”
- Avaric: “ХӀамадан”
- Azerbaijani: “Həmədan”
- Bashkir: “Хәмәдан”
- Basque: “Hamadan”
- Belarusian: “Хамадан”
- Bengali: “হামাদান”
- Breton: “Hamadan”
- Bulgarian: “Хамадан”
- Catalan: “Hamadan”
- Cebuano: “Ecbatana”
- Central Kurdish: “ھەمەدان”
- Chechen: “Хамадан”
- Chinese: “哈馬丹”
- Chinese: “哈马丹”
- Croatian: “Hamadan”
- Czech: “Hamadán”
- Danish: “Hamedan”
- Dimli (individual language): “Hemedan”
- Dutch: “Hamadan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “همدان”
- Esperanto: “Hamadano”
- Finnish: “Hamadan”
- Finnish: “Hamedan”
- French: “Hamadan”
- Galician: “Hamadán”
- Georgian: “ჰამადანი”
- German: “Hamadan”
- Greek: “Χαμαντάν”
- Gujarati: “હમાદાન”
- Hebrew: “המדאן”
- Hindi: “हमदान”
- Hindi: “हमादान”
- Hungarian: “Hamadán”
- Indonesian: “Hamedan”
- Irish: “Hamadan”
- Italian: “Hamadan”
- Japanese: “ハマダーン”
- Kannada: “ಹಮದಾನ್”
- Kashmiri: “ہَمدان”
- Korean: “하마단”
- Kurdish: “Hemedan”
- Latin: “Ecbatana”
- Latvian: “Hamadana”
- Latvian: “Hamadāna”
- Lithuanian: “Hamadanas”
- Malagasy: “Hamedan”
- Malay: “Hamadan”
- Malayalam: “ഹമദാൻ”
- Maori: “Hamadan”
- Marathi: “ह्यॅमडॅन”
- Mazanderani: “همدان”
- Mazanderani: “همدون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hamadan”
- Mingrelian: “ჰამადანი”
- Northern Frisian: “Hamadaan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hamadan”
- Norwegian: “Hamadan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Hamadan”
- Ossetian: “Хамадан”
- Panjabi: “ਹਮਦਾਨ”
- Persian: “همدان”
- Polish: “Hamadan”
- Portuguese: “Hamadã”
- Pushto: “همدان”
- Romanian: “Hamadan”
- Russian: “Хамадан”
- Scots: “Hamedan”
- Serbian: “Хамадан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hamadan”
- Silesian: “Hamadan”
- Sinhala: “හැමඩන්”
- Slovak: “Hamadán”
- Slovenian: “Hamadan”
- South Azerbaijani: “همدان”
- Spanish: “Hamadán”
- Swedish: “Hamadan”
- Tagalog: “Ecbatana”
- Tajik: “Ҳамадон”
- Tamil: “அமாதான்”
- Tamil: “ஹாமடான்”
- Tatar: “Һәмәдан”
- Telugu: “హమదాన్”
- Telugu: “హమెడాన్”
- Thai: “แฮเมดอน”
- Thai: “แฮแมดอน”
- Turkish: “Hemedan”
- Ukrainian: “Гамадан”
- Ukrainian: “Хамадан”
- 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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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: مرز خیابان اکباتان and ekbatan street.
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