West Afghanistan
Herat Province
Herat District

Herat

Herat, also known as Harat or Hirat, and historically known as Haraiva, Horeiva and Hires, is an oasis city and the third-largest city in . In 2020, it had an estimated population of 574,276.
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  • Type: City with 349,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Herat Province, Afghanistan
  • Also known as: “Alexandria”, “Alexandria Ariana”, “Gerat”, “Heraut”, “Hirat”, and “Shahr-e Herāt”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Herat Citadel and Herat National Museum.

Photo: koldo, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Citadel of Herat, locally known as Arg-e Herat, or Qala-ye Ikhtiaruddin, is a fort located in the center of Herat in .

Museum
The is a located in Herat, . It was established in 1925 by order of Emir Amānullāh.

Museum
The is located in the western provincial capital of Herat in . It was built in 2010 as a place for Afghans to understand past conflicts and their history.

Herat

Latitude
34.3491° or 34° 20′ 57″ north
Longitude
62.2163° or 62° 12′ 59″ east
Population
349,000
Elevation
927 metres (3,041 feet)
IATA airport code
HEA
United Nations Location Code
AF HEA
Open location code
8J6486X8+MG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 312432807
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1140026
Wiki­data ID
Q45313
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Herat” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Herat”
  • Arabic: “حيرات”
  • Arabic: “مدينة هرات”
  • Arabic: “هراة”
  • Arabic: “هرات”
  • Arabic: “هراه”
  • Arabic: “هيرات”
  • Armenian: “Հերաթ”
  • Asturian: “Herat”
  • Azerbaijani: “Herat”
  • Banjar: “Herat (kuta)”
  • Banjar: “Herat”
  • Bashkir: “Герат”
  • Basque: “Harat”
  • Basque: “Herat”
  • Belarusian: “Герат”
  • Bengali: “হেরাত”
  • Bulgarian: “Херат”
  • Catalan: “Herat”
  • Cebuano: “Herāt”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھەرات”
  • Chinese: “哈烈”
  • Chinese: “赫拉特”
  • Chuvash: “Герат”
  • Chuvash: “Херат”
  • Croatian: “Herat”
  • Czech: “Herat”
  • Czech: “Herát”
  • Czech: “Hérat”
  • Czech: “Herátská oáza”
  • Danish: “Herat”
  • Dutch: “Herat”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هراه”
  • Esperanto: “Herat”
  • Esperanto: “Herato”
  • Estonian: “Herat”
  • Estonian: “Herāt”
  • Finnish: “Herat”
  • French: “Harat”
  • French: “Herat”
  • French: “Hérat”
  • French: “Hérât”
  • Galician: “Herat”
  • Georgian: “ჰერათი”
  • German: “Herat”
  • Greek: “Αρτακοάνα”
  • Greek: “Χαράτ”
  • Greek: “Χεράτ”
  • Gujarati: “હેરાત”
  • Hausa: “Herat”
  • Hebrew: “הראט”
  • Hebrew: “הראת”
  • Hindi: “हरात”
  • Hindi: “हेरात”
  • Hungarian: “Herát”
  • Icelandic: “Herat”
  • Indonesian: “Herat”
  • Interlingue: “Herat”
  • Irish: “Herat”
  • Italian: “Alessandria Ariana”
  • Italian: “Herat”
  • Japanese: “ヘラート”
  • Japanese: “哈烈”
  • Kalaallisut: “Herat”
  • Kannada: “ಹೆರಾಟ್”
  • Kannada: “ಹೆರಾತ್”
  • Kazakh: “Герат”
  • Kazakh: “Һерат”
  • Kazakh: “Һират”
  • Kirghiz: “Герат”
  • Korean: “헤라트”
  • Kurdish: “Herat, Efxanistan”
  • Kurdish: “Herat”
  • Latin: “Alexandria Ariana”
  • Latin: “Alexandria”
  • Latin: “Aria”
  • Latin: “Artacoana”
  • Latvian: “Herata”
  • Latvian: “Herāta”
  • Literary Chinese: “哈烈”
  • Lithuanian: “Herat”
  • Lithuanian: “Heratas”
  • Lombard: “Herat”
  • Malay: “Herat”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Herat”
  • Malayalam: “Herat”
  • Malayalam: “ഹെറാത്”
  • Malayalam: “ഹെറാത്ത്”
  • Maltese: “Herat”
  • Maori: “Herat”
  • Maori: “Herāt”
  • Marathi: “हेरत”
  • Marathi: “हेरात”
  • Mazanderani: “هرات”
  • Mongolian: “Херат”
  • Nauru: “Herat”
  • Nepali: “हरात”
  • Nepali: “हेरात”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Herat”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Herat”
  • Norwegian: “Herat”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Herat”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ࡄࡀࡓࡀࡕ”
  • Ossetian: “Герат”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੇਰਾਤ”
  • Persian: “اسکندریه آریانا”
  • Persian: “اسکندریهٔ آریانا”
  • Persian: “اسکندریه اریانا”
  • Persian: “اسکندریهٔ اریانا”
  • Persian: “شهر هرات”
  • Persian: “هرات”
  • Persian: “ولسوالی هرات”
  • Polish: “Herat”
  • Polish: “Herāt”
  • Portuguese: “Herat”
  • Portuguese: “Herate”
  • Pushto: “هرات”
  • Romanian: “Herat”
  • Russian: “Герат”
  • Russian: “Херат”
  • Santali: “ᱦᱮᱨᱟᱛ”
  • Scots: “Herat”
  • Serbian: “Херат”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Herat”
  • Sindhi: “ھرات”
  • Sinhala: “හෙරට්”
  • Slovenian: “Herat”
  • Somali: “Haraat”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هرات”
  • Spanish: “Alejandria de Areia”
  • Spanish: “Alejandría de Areia”
  • Spanish: “Alejandria de Aria”
  • Spanish: “Alejandría de Aria”
  • Spanish: “Hera t”
  • Spanish: “Hera-t”
  • Spanish: “Herat”
  • Spanish: “Herāt”
  • Swedish: “Herat”
  • Tagalog: “Herat”
  • Tajik: “Ҳирот”
  • Tamil: “ஹெறாத் நகரம்”
  • Tatar: “Һәрат”
  • Telugu: “హెరాత్”
  • Thai: “ฮารัต”
  • Thai: “เฮรัต”
  • Thai: “เฮราต”
  • Turkish: “Herat”
  • Uighur: “ھېرات”
  • Ukrainian: “Герат”
  • Urdu: “ھرات”
  • Urdu: “ہرات”
  • Uzbek: “Hirot”
  • Venetian: “Herat”
  • Vietnamese: “Herat”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Hirat”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Herat”
  • Welsh: “Herat”
  • Western Armenian: “Հերաթ”
  • Western Frisian: “Herat”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہرات”
  • Wu Chinese: “赫拉特”
  • Yue Chinese: “赫拉特”

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