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Isfahan

Isfahan province is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. Its capital is the city of . The province is in the center of the country in Iran's Region 2, whose secretariat is located in Isfahan.
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is a city in central Iran, south of Tehran and is the capital of Province. 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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is a city in the Isfahan province of . is the first of the large oases along the Qom-Kerman road which runs along the edge of the central deserts of Iran.

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is an ancient desert town in Isfahan province still showing evidence of its 5,000-year-old civilization.

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is a desert town in the Isfahan province of . Bordered by desert sands in the north and east, it's easily reached as it is only a 12 km drive north-east from the city of .

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Na'in is a pre-Islamic town, more than 2,000 years old, on the edge of the Central Desert of Iran in the Isfahan province of . It is known for extremely fine carpets.

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is a city in Neyasar Rural District, Neyasar District, Kashan County, Isfahan Province, . The population in 2017 is approximately 2,000 people.

Matinabad is a village in Khaledabad Rural District, Emamzadeh District, , Isfahan Province, . At the 2006 census, its population was 547, in 137 families.

Isfahan

Latitude of center
33.1881° or 33° 11′ 17″ north
Longitude of center
52.4982° or 52° 29′ 53″ east
Population
5,340,000
Elevation
2,168 metres (7,113 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 10733242824
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
418862
Wiki­data ID
Q1367759
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Isfahan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أصفهان (محافظه)”
  • Arabic: “أصفهان”
  • Arabic: “محافظة أصفهان”
  • Arabic: “محافظة إصفهان”
  • Arabic: “محافظة اصفهان”
  • Armenian: “Սպահան նահանգ”
  • Armenian: “Սպահան”
  • Armenian: “Սպահանի նահանգ”
  • Asturian: “Provincia d’Isfahán”
  • Avaric: “Исфагьан (остан)”
  • Avaric: “Исфагьан”
  • Azerbaijani: “İsfahan (ostan)”
  • Azerbaijani: “İsfahan ostanı”
  • Basque: “Isfahan”
  • Basque: “Ispahan probintzia”
  • Basque: “Ispahango probintzia”
  • Belarusian: “астан Ісфахан”
  • Belarusian: “Ісфаган”
  • Belarusian: “Ісфахан, астан”
  • Belarusian: “Ісфахан”
  • Bengali: “ইসফাহান প্রদেশ”
  • Bengali: “এসফাহন প্রদেশ”
  • Bosnian: “Isfahanska pokrajina”
  • Bulgarian: “Исфахан (остан)”
  • Bulgarian: “Исфахан”
  • Catalan: “província d’Esfahan”
  • Catalan: “Província d’Esfahan”
  • Catalan: “província d’Isfahan”
  • Cebuano: “Esfahan”
  • Cebuano: “Esfahān”
  • Cebuano: “Isfahan”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای ئەسفەھان”
  • Chechen: “Исфахан (остан)”
  • Chechen: “Исфахан”
  • Chechen: “ИсфахӀан”
  • Chinese: “Isfahan Séng”
  • Chinese: “伊斯法罕省”
  • Crimean Tatar: “İsfahan ostanı”
  • Croatian: “Isfahan (pokrajina)”
  • Croatian: “Isfahanska pokrajina”
  • Czech: “Isfahán”
  • Czech: “Isfahánská provincie”
  • Danish: “Esfahan (provins)”
  • Danish: “Isfahan (provins)”
  • Danish: “Isfahan”
  • Dimli (individual language): “İsfehan”
  • Dutch: “Isfahan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اصفهان (محافظه)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اصفهان”
  • Esperanto: “Isfahano”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Isfahan”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Isfahano”
  • Estonian: “Eşfahāni provints”
  • Estonian: “Isfahani provints”
  • Finnish: “Eṣfahān (provinssi)”
  • Finnish: “Esfahan”
  • Finnish: “Eṣfahān”
  • French: “Ispahan”
  • French: “Province d’Esfahan”
  • French: “Province d’Isfahan”
  • French: “Province d’Ispahan”
  • Galician: “Provincia de Esfahan”
  • Georgian: “ისპაჰანი (ოსტანი)”
  • Georgian: “ისპაჰანი”
  • Georgian: “ისპაჰანის ოსტანი”
  • German: “Esfahan”
  • German: “Isfahan (Provinz)”
  • German: “Isfahan”
  • Gilaki: “استان اصفهان”
  • Gilaki: “ايصفهان ٚ اۊستان”
  • Greek: “Ισφαχάν”
  • Gujarati: “ઇસ્ફહન પ્રાંત”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Isfahan-sén”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Yî-sṳ̂-fap-hàn-sén”
  • Hausa: “Isfahan (Lardi)”
  • Hausa: “Isfahan”
  • Hebrew: “אספהאן”
  • Hebrew: “פרובינציית אספהאן”
  • Hebrew: “פרובינציית אצפהאן”
  • Hindi: “इस्फ़हान प्रांत”
  • Hungarian: “Iszfahán tartomány”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi isfahan”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Isfahan”
  • Italian: “Esfahan (provincia)”
  • Italian: “provincia di Esfahan”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Esfahan”
  • Italian: “Regione di Esfahan”
  • Japanese: “エスファハーン州”
  • Kannada: “ಇಸ್ಫಾನ್ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Isfaxan”
  • Kazakh: “Исфахан облысы”
  • Kazakh: “Исфаһан облысы”
  • Kazakh: “Исфаһан”
  • Korean: “이스파한주”
  • Kurdish: “Îsfehan (parêzgeh)”
  • Kurdish: “Îsfehan”
  • Kurdish: “Parêzgeha Îsfehan”
  • Latin: “Provincia Isfahanensis”
  • Latvian: “Isfahāna”
  • Latvian: “Isfahānas ostāns”
  • Lithuanian: “Isfahano provincija”
  • Macedonian: “Исфахан”
  • Malagasy: “Faritanin‘ i Isfahan”
  • Malagasy: “Faritanin’ i Isfahan”
  • Malay: “Isfahan (wilayah)”
  • Malay: “Isfahan”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Isfahan”
  • Malayalam: “ഇസ്ഫഹാൻ പ്രവിശ്യ”
  • Maori: “Ihawhahana Porowini”
  • Maori: “Isfahan Porowini”
  • Marathi: “इस्फहान प्रांत”
  • Mazanderani: “اصفهان اوستان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Isfahan Séng”
  • Mingrelian: “ისპაჰანიშ ოსტანი”
  • Nepali: “इस्फहान प्रदेश”
  • Newari: “इसफाहान प्रान्त”
  • Newari: “इस्फहान प्रान्त”
  • Northern Luri: “آستون اصفهان”
  • Northern Sami: “Isfahana provinsa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Isfahan (provins)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Isfahan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Esfahan-provinsen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Isfahan-provinsen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Provinsen Esfahan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Provinsen Isfahan”
  • Norwegian: “Isfahan”
  • Ossetian: “Исфахан (остан)”
  • Ossetian: “Исфахан”
  • Persian: “استان اصفهان”
  • Persian: “اصفهان”
  • Persian: “اصفهون”
  • Polish: “Isfahan”
  • Polish: “Ostan-e Esfahan”
  • Portuguese: “Isfahan (província)”
  • Portuguese: “Ispaão”
  • Portuguese: “Província de isfahan”
  • Portuguese: “Província de Isfahan”
  • Pushto: “د اصفهان ولايت”
  • Pushto: “د اصفهان ولایت”
  • Russian: “Исфахан”
  • Russian: “остан Исфахан”
  • Scots: “Isfahan Province”
  • Serbian: “Покрајина Исфахан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Esfahanska pokrajina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Isfahanska pokrajina”
  • Sindhi: “اصفھان صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “ඉස්ෆහන් පළාත”
  • Slovak: “provincia Isfahán”
  • Slovenian: “Isfahan”
  • Slovenian: “Provinca Isfahan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایصفاهان اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Esfahan”
  • Spanish: “Isfahan”
  • Spanish: “Isfahán”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Esfahan”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Esfahán”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Isfahan”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Isfahán”
  • Swedish: “Esfahan”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Esfahān”
  • Tajik: “Устони Исфаҳан”
  • Tajik: “Устони Исфаҳон”
  • Tamil: “இசுபகான் மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “இசுபான் மாகாணம்”
  • Tatar: “Исфәһан (устан)”
  • Tatar: “Исфәһан”
  • Telugu: “ఇస్ఫహాన్ ప్రావిన్స్”
  • Telugu: “ఇస్ఫహాన్ రాష్ట్రభాగం”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดเอสแฟฮอน”
  • Turkish: “İsfahan (il)”
  • Turkish: “İsfahan (ostan)”
  • Turkish: “İsfahan Eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “İsfahan”
  • Uighur: “ئېسفەھان ۋىلايىتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Ісфаган (остан)”
  • Ukrainian: “Ісфаган”
  • Ukrainian: “Ісфахан”
  • Ukrainian: “Остан Ісфаган”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ اصفہان”
  • Uzbek: “Isfahon ustoni”
  • Uzbek: “Isfahon viloyati”
  • Vietnamese: “Eşfahān (tỉnh)”
  • Vietnamese: “Isfahan (tỉnh)”
  • Vietnamese: “Isfahan”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Esfahan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Isfahan”
  • Welsh: “Talaith Isfahan”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ اصفہان”
  • Wu Chinese: “伊斯法罕省”
  • Yue Chinese: “伊斯法罕省”

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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 Wikipedia page “Isfahan”. Photo: Nikopol, CC BY-SA 3.0.