Kashan

Kashan is a city in the province of . Kashan 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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  • Type: City with 276,000 residents
  • Description: city in Isfahan Province, Iran
  • Also known as: “Cassan”, “Kachán”, “Kâchân”, “Kâšân”, “Kâshân”, “Kãshãn”, “Qashan”, and “قاشان”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Borujerdis House and Tabatabaei House.

The Borujerdi House is a historic house museum in Kashan, .

The Tabatabai House is a historic house museum in Kashan, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Valiasr Square.

Locality
is a locality.

Kashan

Latitude
33.9877° or 33° 59′ 16″ north
Longitude
51.4429° or 51° 26′ 34″ east
Population
276,000
Elevation
942 metres (3,091 feet)
IATA airport code
KKS
UN/LOCODE
IR KAS
Open location code
8H5HXCQV+35
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Kashan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كاشان”
  • Armenian: “Քաշան”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kaşan”
  • Bashkir: “Кәшән”
  • Basque: “Kashan”
  • Belarusian: “Кашан”
  • Bulgarian: “Кашан”
  • Catalan: “Kaixan”
  • Cebuano: “Kāšān”
  • Cebuano: “Kāshān”
  • Central Kurdish: “کاشان”
  • Chinese: “卡尚”
  • Croatian: “Kašan”
  • Czech: “Kášán”
  • Dutch: “Kashan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاشان”
  • Esperanto: “Kaŝano”
  • Finnish: “Kashan”
  • French: “Kachan”
  • French: “Kashan”
  • Georgian: “ქაშანი”
  • German: “Kaschan”
  • Greek: “Κασάν”
  • Hebrew: “כאשאן”
  • Hindi: “काशान”
  • Hungarian: “Kásán”
  • Indonesian: “Kashan”
  • Irish: “Kashan”
  • Italian: “Kashan”
  • Japanese: “カーシャーン”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಶಾನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Kaşan”
  • Kazakh: “Кашан”
  • Kazakh: “كاشان”
  • Kirghiz: “Кашан шаары”
  • Korean: “카샨”
  • Kurdish: “Kaşan”
  • Lithuanian: “Kašanas”
  • Malay: “Kashan”
  • Mazanderani: “کاشان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kashan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kashan”
  • Norwegian: “Kashan”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ࡊࡀࡔࡀࡍ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਸ਼ਾਨ”
  • Persian: “كاشان”
  • Persian: “کاشان”
  • Polish: “Kaszan”
  • Portuguese: “Caxã”
  • Portuguese: “Kashan”
  • Romanian: “Kashan”
  • Russian: “Кашан”
  • Scots: “Kashan”
  • Serbian: “Кашан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kašan”
  • Slovenian: “Kašan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کاشان”
  • Spanish: “Kashan”
  • Swedish: “Kashan”
  • Tajik: “Koşon”
  • Tajik: “Кошон”
  • Tatar: “Кашан”
  • Turkish: “Kaşan”
  • Ukrainian: “Кашан”
  • Urdu: “کاشان”
  • Uzbek: “Koshon”
  • Venetian: “Kashan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kāšān”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kashan”
  • Western Panjabi: “کاشان”
  • “Kāšān”

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