Karaj
Karaj is a city in the Central District of Karaj County, Alborz province, Iran, 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.
- Type: City with 1,710,000 residents
- Description: city in Alborz Province, Iran
- Also known as: “Heredi”, “Karadje”, “Karej”, “Keredi”, “Keredža”, “Leredi”, “Qaşabeh-e Karaj”, “ყარაჯი”, “ایران کوچک”, “کلانشهر کرج”, and “卡拉傑”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Shah Abbasi Caravansarai, Karaj and Soleymaniyeh Palace.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hassan Abad and Jahanshahr.
Karaj
- Categories: city of Iran and locality
- Location: Alborz, Western Iran, Iran, Middle East, Asia
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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
QKC and PYK
UN/LOCODE
IR QKC
Open location code
8H7GRXCR+X5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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: “Kərəc”
- Balinese: “Karaj”
- Basque: “Karaj”
- Belarusian: “Керэдж”
- Belarusian: “Кэрэдж”
- Bengali: “কারাজ”
- Bulgarian: “Карадж”
- Catalan: “Karaj”
- Cebuano: “Karaj”
- Central Kurdish: “کەرەج”
- Chechen: “Карадж”
- Chechen: “Кередж”
- Chinese: “卡拉季”
- Croatian: “Karadž”
- Czech: “Karadž”
- Danish: “Karaj”
- Dimli (individual language): “Kerec”
- Dutch: “Karaj”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كرج”
- Erzya: “Кередж ош”
- Esperanto: “Karaĝ”
- Esperanto: “Karaĝo”
- Finnish: “Karaj”
- French: “Karadj”
- French: “Karaj”
- Georgian: “ქარაჯი”
- German: “Karadsch”
- 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”
- Kashmiri: “کرج”
- Kazakh: “Кередж”
- Kirghiz: “Кереж”
- Korean: “카라즈”
- Korean: “카라지”
- Kurdish: “Kerec”
- Latvian: “Karadža”
- 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: “قَصَبِهِ كَرَج”
- Persian: “كرج”
- Persian: “کرج”
- Polish: “Karadż”
- Portuguese: “Caraje”
- Portuguese: “Karaj”
- Romanian: “Karaj”
- 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: “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”
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