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Isfahan

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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  • Type: City with 1,960,000 residents
  • Description: city in Isfahan Province, Iran
  • Also known as: “Aspadāna”, “Culture City Of Iran”, “Esfahan”, “Esfahān”, “Eşfehān”, “Hispahan”, “IFN”, “Isfahān”, “Ispahan”, “Ispahân”, “Ispahān”, “Sepahan”, “Spahan”, “Spahān”, “اِسپادنا”, and “اِسپهان”

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, . It was commissioned by Abbas the Great and completed by Shah Abbas II, both Safavid Shahs, mostly for royal entertainment and receptions.

Mosque
Photo: شهاب الدین علیشاهی, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a Shi'ite , located on the eastern side of , Isfahan, , . Construction of the mosque started in 1011 AH and was finished in 1028 AH and it is one of the masterpieces of Iranian architecture that was built during the Safavid era.

Castle
Photo: Zahradibaji, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an imperial palace in Isfahan, . It is located on the western side of the , opposite to the , and had been originally designed as a vast portal entrance to the grand palace which stretched from Naqsh-e Jahan Square to Chaharbagh Boulevard.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jey Shir and Histan.

Neighborhood
is a village in Jey Rural District, in the Central District of Isfahan County, Isfahan Province, . At the 2006 census, its population was 1,972, in 519 families.

Neighborhood
is a village in Jey Rural District, in the Central District of Isfahan County, Isfahan Province, . At the 2006 census, its population was 440, in 106 families.

Neighborhood
Kalamkhvaran is a village in Jey Rural District, in the Central District of Isfahan County, Isfahan Province, . At the 2006 census, its population was 697, in 189 families.

Isfahan

Latitude
32.65° or 32° 39′ north
Longitude
51.6833° or 51° 41′ east
Population
1,960,000
Elevation
1,578 metres (5,177 feet)
IATA airport code
IFN
United Nations Location Codes
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”
  • Arabic: “أصبهان”
  • Arabic: “أصفهان”
  • Arabic: “إصبهان”
  • Arabic: “إصفهان”
  • Arabic: “اصبهان”
  • Armenian: “Իսպահան”
  • Armenian: “Իսֆահան”
  • Armenian: “Սպահան”
  • Asturian: “Isfahán”
  • Azerbaijani: “İsfahan”
  • Bashkir: “Исфаһан”
  • Basque: “Esfahan”
  • 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”
  • Catalan: “Isfahan”
  • Catalan: “Ispahan”
  • Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Esfahān”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەسفەھان”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئیسفەھان”
  • Chechen: “Исфахан”
  • Chechen: “ИсфахӀан”
  • Chinese: “Esfahan”
  • Chinese: “亦思弗罕”
  • Chinese: “伊斯法罕”
  • Chinese: “伊斯法罕市”
  • Croatian: “Esfahan”
  • Croatian: “Isfahan”
  • Croatian: “Ispahan”
  • Czech: “Esfahan”
  • Czech: “Esfahán”
  • Czech: “Isfahán”
  • Danish: “Isfahan”
  • Danish: “Ispahan”
  • Dimli (individual language): “İsfehan”
  • Dutch: “Esfahan”
  • Dutch: “Isfahan”
  • Dutch: “Ispahaan”
  • Dutch: “Isphahan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اصفهان”
  • Erzya: “Исфахан ош”
  • Esperanto: “Esfahano”
  • Esperanto: “Isfahano”
  • Estonian: “Eşfahān”
  • Estonian: “Isfahan”
  • Finnish: “Esfahan”
  • Finnish: “Eşfahān”
  • Finnish: “Eṣfahān”
  • Finnish: “Isfahan”
  • French: “Esfahan”
  • French: “Espahan”
  • French: “Isfahan”
  • French: “Ispahan”
  • French: “Isphahan”
  • Galician: “Isfahán”
  • Georgian: “ესფაჰანი”
  • Georgian: “ისპაანი”
  • Georgian: “ისპაჰანი”
  • Georgian: “ისფაჰანი”
  • German: “Esfahan”
  • German: “Isfahan”
  • German: “Iṣpahān”
  • German: “Isphahan”
  • 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: “Esfahan”
  • Indonesian: “Isfahan”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Isfahan”
  • Interlingua: “Esfahan”
  • Interlingua: “Isfahan”
  • Interlingue: “Isfahan”
  • Irish: “Isfahan”
  • Italian: “Esfahan”
  • Italian: “Isfahan”
  • Italian: “Ispahan”
  • 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: “ಇಸ್ಫಹಾನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Isfahan”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “İsfahan”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Isfaxan”
  • Kashmiri: “اِصفَہان”
  • Kazakh: “Исфахан”
  • Kazakh: “Исфаһан”
  • Kirghiz: “Исфахан”
  • Komering: “Isfahan”
  • Korean: “에스파한”
  • Korean: “이스파한”
  • Kurdish: “Îsfehan”
  • Latin: “Aspadana”
  • Latin: “Gabae”
  • Latin: “Isfahanum”
  • Latin: “Ispahanum”
  • Latin: “Spaham”
  • Latvian: “Esfahān”
  • 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: “Esfahan”
  • Maltese: “Isfahan”
  • Maori: “Ihawhahana”
  • Maori: “Isfahan”
  • Marathi: “इस्फहान”
  • Mazanderani: “اصفهان”
  • Mazanderani: “اصفهون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Esfahan”
  • Mingrelian: “ისპაანი”
  • Mingrelian: “ისპაჰანი”
  • Moksha: “Исфаган”
  • Nepali: “इस्फाहान”
  • Northern Luri: “ئسفأھان”
  • Northern Luri: “اصفهان”
  • Northern Sami: “Isfahan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Esfahan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Isfahan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ispahan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Isfahan”
  • Norwegian: “Isfahan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Isfahan”
  • Ossetian: “Исфагъан”
  • Ossetian: “Исфахан”
  • Panjabi: “ਇਸਫ਼ਹਾਨ”
  • Persian: “اسپادانا”
  • Persian: “اسپاهان”
  • Persian: “اسپهان”
  • Persian: “اصفهان”
  • Persian: “سپاهان”
  • Persian: “کلانشهر اصفهان”
  • Polish: “Aspadana”
  • Polish: “Isfahan”
  • Portuguese: “Aspão”
  • Portuguese: “Esfahan”
  • Portuguese: “Isfahan”
  • Portuguese: “Ispaã”
  • Portuguese: “Ispaão”
  • Portuguese: “Ispahan”
  • Pushto: “اصفهان ښار”
  • Quechua: “Isfahan”
  • Romanian: “Esfahan”
  • Romanian: “Isfahan (oraş)”
  • Romanian: “Isfahan (oraș)”
  • Romanian: “Isfahan”
  • Romanian: “Ispahan”
  • Russian: “Испагань”
  • Russian: “Исфаган”
  • Russian: “Исфахан”
  • Scots: “Isfahan”
  • Serbian: “Есфахан”
  • Serbian: “Исфахан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Esfahan”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Isfahan”
  • Silesian: “Isfahan”
  • Sindhi: “اصفھان”
  • Sinhala: “ඉස්ෆහාන්”
  • Slovak: “Isfahán”
  • Slovenian: “Esfahan”
  • Slovenian: “Isfahan”
  • Somali: “Asfahaan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایصفاهان”
  • Spanish: “Esfahan”
  • Spanish: “Esfahán”
  • Spanish: “Esfahān”
  • Spanish: “Eşfahan”
  • Spanish: “Eşfahān”
  • Spanish: “Hispahan”
  • Spanish: “Isfahan”
  • Spanish: “Isfahán”
  • Spanish: “Ispahan”
  • Spanish: “Ispahán”
  • Swahili: “Isfahan”
  • Swedish: “Aspadana”
  • Swedish: “Esfahan”
  • Swedish: “Eşfahān”
  • Swedish: “Isfahan”
  • Swedish: “Isfanhan”
  • Swedish: “Ispahan”
  • Swiss German: “Isfahan”
  • Tagalog: “Esfahān”
  • Tagalog: “Isfahan”
  • Tajik: “Исфаҳон”
  • Tamil: “இசுபகான்”
  • Tatar: “Исфәһан”
  • Telugu: “ఇస్ఫహాన్”
  • Thai: “อิสฟาฮาน”
  • Thai: “เอสแฟฮอน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Isfahan”
  • Turkish: “İsfahan”
  • Turkish: “اصفهان”
  • Turkmen: “Yspyhan”
  • Uighur: “ئېسفەھان”
  • Ukrainian: “Ісфаган”
  • Ukrainian: “Ісфахан”
  • Urdu: “اصفهان”
  • Urdu: “اصفھان”
  • Urdu: “اصفہان”
  • Uzbek: “Isfahon”
  • Venetian: “Esfahan”
  • Veps: “Isfahan”
  • Vietnamese: “Esfahan”
  • Vietnamese: “Esfahān”
  • Vietnamese: “Isfahan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Esfahan”
  • 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”
  • “इस्फ़हान”

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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 “Isfahan”. Photo: Gire 3pich2005, CC0.