Isfahan

Isfahan is a city in central Iran, south of Tehran and is the capital of . Due to its beautiful hand-painted tiling and magnificent public square, it is considered to be one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
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  • City with 1,960,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 1,578 metres (5,177 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code IFN
  • Description: city in Isfahan Province, Iran
  • Also known as
    “Aspadāna”
    “Culture City Of Iran”
    “Eşfehān”
    “Hispahan”
    “IFN”
    “Ispahān”
    “Sepahan”
    “Spahān”
  • Historically known as
    “al-Yahūdīya”
    “Espahān”
    “Gay”
    “Yahūdīya”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chehel Sotoun and Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque.

Museum
Photo: Zenith210, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a 17th century pavilion and garden, in Isfahan, .

Mosque
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The is a Shi'ite …

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or is a 17th-century pavilion in Isfahan, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jey Shir and Histan.

Neighborhood
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Isfahan

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Latitude
32.65° or 32° 39′ north
Longitude
51.6833° or 51° 41′ east
UN/LOCODE
IR ESF and IR IFN
Open location code
8H4HMM2M+28
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26038567
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
418863
Wiki­data ID
Q42053

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Isfahan” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Isfahan”
  • Albanian: “Isfahan”
  • Albanian: “Isfahani”
  • Amharic: “ኤስፈሃን”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Gabai” (historical)
  • Arabic: “Iṣbahān” (historical)
  • Arabic: “أصبهان”
  • Arabic: “أصفهان”
  • Arabic: “إصبهان”
  • Arabic: “إصفهان”
  • Arabic: “اصبهان”
  • Armenian: “Իսպահան”
  • Armenian: “Իսֆահան”
  • Armenian: “Սպահան”
  • Asturian: “Isfahán”
  • Azerbaijani: “İsfahan”
  • Balinese: “Isfahan”
  • Bashkir: “Исфаһан”
  • Basque: “Isfahan”
  • Belarusian: “Ісфаган”
  • Belarusian: “Ісфахан”
  • Bengali: “ইসফাহান”
  • Bengali: “ইস্পাহান”
  • Bengali: “এসফাহন”
  • Bengali: “এসফাহান”
  • Bhojpuri: “इसफहान”
  • Bhojpuri: “इस्फ़हान”
  • Bosnian: “Isfahan”
  • Breton: “Isfahan”
  • Bulgarian: “Исфахан”
  • Catalan: “Djay”
  • Catalan: “Esfahan”
  • Catalan: “Esfehan”
  • Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Esfahān”
  • Cebuano: “Esfahān”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەسفەھان”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئیسفەھان”
  • Chechen: “Исфахан”
  • Chechen: “ИсфахӀан”
  • Chinese: “亦思弗罕”
  • Chinese: “伊斯法罕”
  • Chinese: “伊斯法罕市”
  • Croatian: “Isfahan”
  • Czech: “Esfahán”
  • Czech: “Isfahán”
  • Danish: “Isfahan”
  • Dimli (individual language): “İsfehan”
  • Dutch: “Isfahan”
  • Dutch: “Ispahaan”
  • Dutch: “Isphahan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اصفهان”
  • Erzya: “Исфахан ош”
  • Esperanto: “Esfahano”
  • Esperanto: “Isfahano”
  • Estonian: “Eşfahān”
  • Finnish: “Esfahan”
  • Finnish: “Eşfahān”
  • Finnish: “Eṣfahān”
  • Finnish: “Isfahan”
  • French: “Espahan”
  • French: “Ispahan”
  • French: “Isphahan”
  • Ga: “Isfahan”
  • Galician: “Isfahán”
  • Georgian: “ესფაჰანი”
  • Georgian: “ისპაანი”
  • Georgian: “ისპაჰანი”
  • Georgian: “ისფაჰანი”
  • German: “Isfahan”
  • German: “Iṣpahān”
  • German: “Isphahan”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Aspadāna”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Culture City Of Iran”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Hispahan”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “IFN”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Isfahan”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Isfahān”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Ispahân”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Ispahān”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Sepahan”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Spahan”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Spahān”
  • Gilaki: “ايصفهان”
  • Greek: “Ασπάδανα”
  • Greek: “Ισπαχάν”
  • Greek: “Ισφαχάν”
  • Gujarati: “ઇસ્ફહાન”
  • Hausa: “Isfahan”
  • Hebrew: “איספהאן”
  • Hebrew: “איספהן”
  • Hebrew: “אספהאן”
  • Hebrew: “אצפהאן”
  • Hindi: “इस्फ़हान”
  • Hindi: “इस्फाहन”
  • Hungarian: “Iszfahán”
  • Ido: “Isfahan”
  • Indonesian: “Isfahan”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Isfahan”
  • Interlingua: “Esfahan”
  • Interlingua: “Isfahan”
  • Interlingue: “Isfahan”
  • Irish: “Isfahan”
  • Italian: “Esfahan”
  • Italian: “Ispahān”
  • Italian: “Isphahan”
  • Japanese: “イスパハン”
  • Japanese: “イスファハーン”
  • Japanese: “イスファハン”
  • Japanese: “エスファハーン”
  • Japanese: “エスファハン”
  • Kabyle: “Isfahan”
  • Kalaallisut: “Isfahan”
  • Kannada: “ಇಸ್ ಫಾಹನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಇಸ್ಪಹಾನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Isfahan”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “İsfahan”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Isfaxan”
  • Kashmiri: “اِصفَہان”
  • Kazakh: “Исфахан”
  • Kazakh: “Исфаһан”
  • Kinaray-A: “Esfahān”
  • Kirghiz: “Исфахан”
  • Komering: “Isfahan”
  • Korean: “에스파한”
  • Korean: “이스파한”
  • Kurdish: “Îsfehan”
  • Latin: “Aspadana”
  • Latin: “Gabae”
  • Latin: “Isfahanum”
  • Latin: “Ispahanum”
  • Latin: “Spaham”
  • Latvian: “Esfahāna”
  • Latvian: “Isfahāna”
  • Literary Chinese: “亦思弗罕”
  • Lithuanian: “Isfahanas”
  • Lombard: “Esfahan”
  • Luxembourgish: “Isfahan”
  • Macedonian: “Исфахан”
  • Malagasy: “Isfahan”
  • Malay: “Isfahan”
  • Malayalam: “ഇസ്ഫഹാൻ”
  • Maltese: “Isfahan”
  • Maori: “Ihawhahana”
  • Maori: “Isfahan”
  • Marathi: “इस्फहान”
  • Mazanderani: “اصفهان”
  • Mazanderani: “اصفهون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Esfahan”
  • Mingrelian: “ისპაანი”
  • Mingrelian: “ისპაჰანი”
  • Moksha: “Исфаган”
  • Mongolian: “Эсфахан”
  • Nepali: “इस्फाहान”
  • Northern Frisian: “Esfahaan”
  • Northern Luri: “ئسفأھان”
  • Northern Luri: “اصفهان”
  • Northern Sami: “Isfahan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Isfahan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Isfahan”
  • Norwegian: “Isfahan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Isfahan”
  • Ossetian: “Исфагъан”
  • Ossetian: “Исфахан”
  • Panjabi: “ਇਸਫ਼ਹਾਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Isfahan”
  • Persian: “اسپادانا”
  • Persian: “اسپاهان”
  • Persian: “اسپهان”
  • Persian: “اصفهان”
  • Persian: “سپاهان”
  • Persian: “کلانشهر اصفهان”
  • Polish: “Aspadana”
  • Polish: “Isfahan”
  • Portuguese: “Aspão”
  • Portuguese: “Isfahan”
  • Portuguese: “Ispaã”
  • Portuguese: “Ispaão”
  • Pushto: “اصفهان ښار”
  • Quechua: “Isfahan”
  • Romanian: “Isfahan (oraş)”
  • Romanian: “Isfahan (oraș)”
  • Romanian: “Isfahan”
  • Russian: “Испагань”
  • Russian: “Исфаган”
  • Russian: “Исфахан”
  • Scots: “Isfahan”
  • Serbian: “Есфахан”
  • Serbian: “Исфахан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Isfahan”
  • Silesian: “Isfahan”
  • Sindhi: “اصفھان”
  • Sinhala: “ඉස්ෆහාන්”
  • Slovak: “Isfahán”
  • Slovenian: “Isfahan”
  • Somali: “Asfahaan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایصفاهان”
  • Spanish: “Esfahán”
  • Spanish: “Eşfahan”
  • Spanish: “Eşfahān”
  • Spanish: “Hispahan”
  • Spanish: “Isfahán”
  • Spanish: “Ispahán”
  • Swahili: “Isfahan”
  • Swedish: “Aspadana”
  • Swedish: “Esfahan”
  • Swedish: “Eşfahān”
  • Swedish: “Isfanhan”
  • Swiss German: “Isfahan”
  • Tagalog: “Esfahān”
  • Tajik: “Исфаҳон”
  • Tamil: “இசுபகான்”
  • Tatar: “Исфәһан”
  • Telugu: “ఇస్ఫహాన్”
  • Thai: “อิสฟาฮาน”
  • Thai: “เอสแฟฮอน”
  • Turkish: “İsfahan”
  • Turkish: “اصفهان”
  • Turkmen: “Yspyhan”
  • Twi: “Isfahan”
  • Uighur: “ئېسفەھان”
  • Ukrainian: “Ісфаган”
  • Ukrainian: “Ісфахан”
  • Urdu: “اصفهان”
  • Urdu: “اصفھان”
  • Urdu: “اصفہان”
  • Uzbek: “Isfahon”
  • Venetian: “Esfahan”
  • Veps: “Isfahan”
  • Vietnamese: “Isfahan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Isfahan”
  • Welsh: “Isfahan”
  • Western Armenian: “Սպահան”
  • Western Frisian: “Isfahan”
  • Western Panjabi: “اصفهان”
  • Western Panjabi: “اصفہان”
  • Wolof: “Isfahan”
  • Wu Chinese: “伊斯法罕”
  • Yue Chinese: “伊斯法罕”

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