Hormuz
Hormuz or Hormoz is a town on Hormuz Island, off the Southwest coast of Iran. Hormuz was a fairly important city in medieval times, such as when Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta visited it, but today is only a town of about 6,000.
- Town with about 5,890 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (30 feet)
- Description: city in Hormozgan Province, Iran
- Also known as“Hormuz, Iran”“New Hormuz”“Qal‘eh-ye Hormoz”
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Latitude
27.0955° or 27° 5′ 44″ north
Longitude
56.4527° or 56° 27′ 10″ east
Open location code
7HVR3FW3+63
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In Other Languages
From Akan to Urdu—“Hormuz” goes by many names.
HormuzAkan
مدينة هرمزArabic
هرمزArabic
HörmüzAzerbaijani
荷姆茲Chinese
霍尔木兹Chinese
霍爾木茲Chinese
HormuzDutch
הורמוזHebrew
HormuzIrish
HomuzItalian
HormozItalian
ホルモズJapanese
호르무즈Korean
HurmozKurdish
OrmusLatin
HormuzMalagasy
Hormuz, IranMalagasy
HormuzMalay
Hormuz, IranMalay
هرمزMazanderani
هرمز (شهر)Mazanderani
HormuzMin Nan Chinese
Hormuz - by i IranNorwegian Bokmål
ОрмузOssetian
قَلعِۀ هُرمُزPersian
هرمزPersian
هرمز نوPersian
هورموزPersian
OrmuzPolish
ОрмузRussian
ХормозRussian
ОрмузSerbian
ХормузSerbian
HormuzSerbo-Croatian
HormuzSlovenian
Hormuz (mesto)Slovenian
هورموزSouth Azerbaijani
هورموز (شهر)South Azerbaijani
ҲурмузTajik
HürmüzTurkish
ОрмузUkrainian
ہرمز، ایرانUrdu
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