Iran
Gulf Region
Hormozgan

Hormuz

Hormuz or Hormoz is a town on Hormuz Island, off the Southwest coast of . 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.
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  • Type: Town with 5,890 residents
  • Description: city in Hormozgan Province, Iran
  • Also known as: “Hormuz, Iran”, “New Hormuz”, and “Qal‘eh-ye Hormoz”

Hormuz

Latitude
27.0955° or 27° 5′ 44″ north
Longitude
56.4527° or 56° 27′ 10″ east
Population
5,890
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
Open location code
7HVR3FW3+63
Open­Street­Map ID
node 289057413
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
131231
Wiki­data ID
Q888643
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In Other Languages

From Akan to Ukrainian—“Hormuz” goes by many names.
  • Akan: “Hormuz”
  • Arabic: “مدينة هرمز”
  • Arabic: “هرمز”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hörmüz”
  • Chinese: “Hormuz”
  • Chinese: “荷姆茲”
  • Chinese: “霍尔木兹”
  • Chinese: “霍爾木茲”
  • Dutch: “Hormuz”
  • French: “Hormuz”
  • German: “Hormus”
  • Hebrew: “הורמוז”
  • Irish: “Hormuz”
  • Italian: “Homuz”
  • Italian: “Hormoz”
  • Japanese: “ホルモズ”
  • Korean: “호르무즈”
  • Kurdish: “Hurmoz”
  • Malagasy: “Hormuz, Iran”
  • Malagasy: “Hormuz”
  • Malay: “Hormuz, Iran”
  • Malay: “Hormuz”
  • Mazanderani: “هرمز (شهر)”
  • Mazanderani: “هرمز”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hormuz”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hormuz - by i Iran”
  • Ossetian: “Ормуз”
  • Persian: “قَلعِۀ هُرمُز”
  • Persian: “هرمز نو”
  • Persian: “هرمز”
  • Persian: “هورموز”
  • Polish: “Ormuz (miasto)”
  • Polish: “Ormuz”
  • Russian: “Ормуз”
  • Russian: “Хормоз”
  • Serbian: “Хормуз”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hormuz”
  • Slovenian: “Hormuz (mesto)”
  • Slovenian: “Hormuz”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هورموز (شهر)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هورموز”
  • Spanish: “Ormuz”
  • Tajik: “Ҳурмуз”
  • Turkish: “Hürmüz”
  • Ukrainian: “Ормуз”

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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 “Hormuz”. Photo: Hasanbardal, GFDL.