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Alborz

Karaj

Karaj is a city in the Central District of Karaj County, province, , serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. Earliest evidence of inhabitation in Karaj can be dated to the Bronze Age at Tepe Khurvin.
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  • Type: City with 1,710,000 residents
  • Description: city in Alborz Province, Iran
  • Also known as: “Heredi”, “Karadje”, “Karej”, “Keredi”, “Leredi”, and “Qaşabeh-e Karaj”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shah Abbasi Caravansarai, Karaj and Soleymaniyeh Palace.

Museum
Photo: ثنا فلاح سخنگو, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Shah Abbasi Caravansarai is a historic Safavid era caravanserai in Karaj probably built by the orders of the Safavid Shah, Suleiman I.

Museum
Photo: محمد یحیی حجاریان, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a Qajar era royal residence in Karaj, Iran. It is notable for its paintings depicting Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar's brothers and Fath-Ali Shah Qajar and his sons.

Park
Photo: Sabag78, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hassan Abad and Jahanshahr.

Neighborhood
Hasanabad is a village in Baraghan Rural District of Chendar District in Savojbolagh County, province, .

Neighborhood
Photo: Nassim.haghighi1990, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a neighborhood.

Village
Mahmudabad is a neighborhood in the city of Karaj in the Central District of Karaj County, province, .

Karaj

Latitude
35.8225° or 35° 49′ 21″ north
Longitude
50.9905° or 50° 59′ 26″ east
Population
1,710,000
Elevation
1,341 metres (4,400 feet)
IATA airport codes
PYK and QKC
United Nations Location Code
IR QKC
Open location code
8H7GRXCR+X5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 234526006
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
128747
Wiki­data ID
Q36529
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Karaj” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Karaj”
  • Arabic: “كرج”
  • Armenian: “Քարաջ”
  • Asturian: “Karaj”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kerec”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kərəc”
  • Basque: “Karaj”
  • Belarusian: “Керэдж”
  • Belarusian: “Кэрэдж”
  • Bengali: “কারাজ”
  • Bulgarian: “Карадж”
  • Catalan: “Karaj”
  • Cebuano: “Karaj”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەرەج”
  • Chechen: “Карадж”
  • Chechen: “Кередж”
  • Chinese: “Karaj”
  • Chinese: “卡拉傑”
  • Chinese: “卡拉季”
  • Croatian: “Karadž”
  • Czech: “Karadž”
  • Danish: “Karaj”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kerec”
  • Dutch: “Karadsch”
  • Dutch: “Karaj”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كرج”
  • Erzya: “Кередж ош”
  • Esperanto: “Karaĝ”
  • Esperanto: “Karaĝo”
  • Finnish: “Karaj”
  • French: “Karadj”
  • French: “Karaj”
  • Georgian: “ქარაჯი”
  • Georgian: “ყარაჯი”
  • German: “Karadsch”
  • German: “Karaj”
  • Gilaki: “کرج”
  • Greek: “Καράτζ”
  • Gujarati: “કરજ”
  • Hausa: “Karaj”
  • Hebrew: “כאראג”
  • Hebrew: “כרג‘”
  • Hebrew: “כרג’”
  • Hindi: “करज”
  • Hindi: “कैरैज”
  • Hungarian: “Karadzs”
  • Indonesian: “Karaj”
  • Interlingua: “Karaj”
  • Irish: “Karaj”
  • Italian: “Karaj”
  • Japanese: “キャラジ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Karaj”
  • Kannada: “ಕರಜ್”
  • Kannada: “ಕರಾಜ್”
  • Kazakh: “Кередж”
  • Kirghiz: “Кереж”
  • Korean: “카라즈”
  • Korean: “카라지”
  • Kurdish: “Kerec”
  • Latvian: “Karadža”
  • Latvian: “Keredža”
  • Lithuanian: “Karadžas”
  • Lithuanian: “Keredžas”
  • Malagasy: “Karaj”
  • Malay: “Karaj”
  • Malayalam: “കരാജ്”
  • Maori: “Karaha”
  • Maori: “Karaj”
  • Marathi: “करज”
  • Mazanderani: “کرج”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Karaj”
  • Mingrelian: “ქარაჯი”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كاراج”
  • Northern Frisian: “Karadsch”
  • Northern Sami: “Karaž”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karaj”
  • Norwegian: “Karaj”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Karaj”
  • Ossetian: “Кередж”
  • Persian: “ایران کوچک”
  • Persian: “قَصَبِهِ كَرَج”
  • Persian: “كرج”
  • Persian: “کرج”
  • Persian: “کلانشهر کرج”
  • Polish: “Karadż”
  • Polish: “Karaj”
  • Portuguese: “Caraje”
  • Portuguese: “Karaj”
  • Romanian: “Karaj”
  • Russian: “Карадж”
  • Russian: “Карай”
  • Russian: “Кередж”
  • Scots: “Karaj”
  • Serbian: “Караџ”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Karadž”
  • Sinhala: “කරාජ්”
  • Slovenian: “Karadž”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کرج”
  • Spanish: “Karaj”
  • Swedish: “Karaj”
  • Tajik: “Караҷ”
  • Tamil: “கரச்சு”
  • Tamil: “கராஜ்”
  • Tatar: “Кәрәҗ”
  • Telugu: “కారజ్”
  • Thai: “คาราจ”
  • Thai: “แคแรจ”
  • Turkish: “Karaj”
  • Turkish: “Kerec”
  • Turkmen: “Käräj”
  • Twi: “Karaj”
  • Ukrainian: “Кередж”
  • Urdu: “کرج”
  • Uzbek: “Karaj”
  • Vietnamese: “Karaj”
  • Võro: “Karaj”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Karaj”
  • Western Panjabi: “کرج”
  • Wolof: “Karaj”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡拉季”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡拉季”
  • “Karaj”

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