Herat
Herāt is the third-largest city of Afghanistan. In 2020, it had an estimated population of 574,276, and serves as the capital of Herat Province, situated in the fertile valley of the Hari River in the western part of the country.
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Notable Places in the Area
Herat Citadel
Castle
The Citadel of Herat, also known as the Citadel of Alexander, and locally known as Qala Iktyaruddin, is located in the center of Herat in Afghanistan. Photo: koldo, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Jihad Museum
Museum
The Jihad Museum is located in the western provincial capital of Herat in Afghanistan.
Localities in the Area
Injil
Village
Injil is a village and the center of the Injil District in Herat Province, Afghanistan.
Herat
- Type: City
- Description: capital of Herat Province, Afghanistan
- Category: big city
- Location: West Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
Latitude 34.3508° or 34° 21' 3" north | Longitude 62.2164° or 62° 12' 59" east |
Population 349,000 | IATA airport code HEA |
United Nations Location Code AF HEA | Elevation 927 metres (3041 feet) |
OpenStreetMap ID node 312432807 | GeoNames ID 1140026 |
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Also Known As
- Albanian: Herat
- Arabic: Herat
- Arabic: حيرات
- Arabic: مدينة هرات
- Arabic: هراة
- Arabic: هرات
- Arabic: هراه
- Arabic: هيرات
- Armenian: Հերաթ
- Asturian: Herat
- Azerbaijani: Herat
- Bashkir: Герат
- Basque: Harat
- Basque: Herat
- Belarusian: Герат
- Bengali: হেরাত
- Bulgarian: Херат
- Catalan: Herat
- Cebuano: Herāt
- Chinese: 哈烈
- Chinese: 赫拉特
- Chuvash: Герат
- Croatian: Herat
- Czech: Herat
- Czech: Herát
- Czech: Herátská oáza
- Czech: Hérat
- 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
- Indonesian: Herat
- Interlingue: Herat
- Italian: Alessandria Ariana
- Italian: Herat
- Japanese: ヘラート
- Japanese: 哈烈
- Kalaallisut: Herat
- Kannada: ಹೆರಾಟ್
- Kannada: ಹೆರಾತ್
- Kirghiz: Герат
- Korean: 헤라트
- 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
- Maori: Herat
- Maori: Herāt
- Marathi: हेरत
- Marathi: हेरात
- Mazanderani: هرات
- Mongolian: Херат
- Nauru: Herat
- Nepali: हरात
- Norwegian: Herat
- Norwegian Bokmål: Herat
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Herat
- Occitan (post 1500): Herat
- Panjabi: ਹੇਰਾਤ
- Persian: اسکندریه آریانا
- Persian: اسکندریه اریانا
- Persian: اسکندریهٔ آریانا
- 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
- Santali: ᱦᱮᱨᱟᱛ
- Scots: Herat
- Serbian: Херат
- Serbo-Croatian: Herat
- Sinhala: හෙරට්
- Slovenian: Herat
- Somali: Haraat
- South Azerbaijani: هرات
- Spanish: Alejandria de Areia
- Spanish: Alejandria de Aria
- Spanish: Alejandría de Areia
- 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
- Ukrainian: Герат
- Urdu: ھرات
- Urdu: ہرات
- Uzbek: Hirot
- 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
- Gerat
- Herat Province
- Hirat
- Shahr-e Herāt
Other Places Named Herat
- HeratState, Afghanistan
- Herat DistrictAfghanistan
- Shahr-e HerātYazd, Iran
- HéreatCentre-Val de Loire, France
In the Area
Localities
Landmarks
- Herat Regional HospitalHospital
- Herat UniversityUniversity
- Takht-e ŞafarPark
- Herat CitadelTower
- Zīārat-e Khwājah GhalţānShrine
- Qal‘ah-ye Khwājah Muḩammad Naz̧īm KhānFort
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