Kermanshah

Kermanshah is a city in . Its climate is mild and it has many natural and historical sightseeings.
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  • Type: City with 947,000 residents
  • Description: city in Kermanshah Province, Iran
  • Also known as: “Bakhtaran”, “Bākhtarān”, “Kermânsâh”, “Kermānshāhān”, and “Qahremānshahr”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Zagros Paleolithic Museum and Jameh Mosque of Kermanshah.

Museum
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is a museum in Kermanshah, , established in 2007. The museum contains stone tools and animal fossil bones from Paleolithic sites in .

Mosque
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The , also called the Chehel Sotoun Mosque, is a Shi'ite Friday mosque, located on Modarres Street and Rashid Yasemi Street in the old city of Kermanshah, in the province of , .

Church
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Sacred Heart of Jesus Church is a church in Kermanshah, Iran. The church was constructed in 1914 by order of Bishop Yohannanyan. The church was registered as an Iranian national heritage site on August 7, 2004.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kermanshah Bazaar.

Neighborhood
Photo: Pouya Abbasi2428, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a neighborhood.

Kermanshah

Latitude
34.3239° or 34° 19′ 26″ north
Longitude
47.0736° or 47° 4′ 25″ east
Population
947,000
Elevation
1,392 metres (4,567 feet)
IATA airport code
KSH
United Nations Location Code
IR KSH
Open location code
8H6983FF+HC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 32663279
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
128226
Wiki­data ID
Q180078
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kermanshah” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كرمانشاه”
  • Armenian: “Բահտարան”
  • Armenian: “Քերմանշահ”
  • Asturian: “Kermanshah”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kirmanşah”
  • Basque: “Kermanxah”
  • Belarusian: “Керманшаг”
  • Belarusian: “Керманшах”
  • Bengali: “কেরমানশাহ”
  • Breton: “Kermanchah”
  • Bulgarian: “Керманшах”
  • Catalan: “Kermansah”
  • Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Kermānšāh”
  • Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Kermānshāh”
  • Central Kurdish: “باختەران”
  • Central Kurdish: “کرماشان”
  • Central Kurdish: “کرمانشا”
  • Central Kurdish: “کرمانشاھان”
  • Chinese: “Kermanshah”
  • Chinese: “克尔曼沙赫”
  • Chinese: “克尔曼沙阿”
  • Chinese: “克爾曼沙赫”
  • Chinese: “克爾曼沙阿”
  • Croatian: “Kermanšah”
  • Croatian: “Kirmanšah”
  • Czech: “Kermanšáh”
  • Czech: “Kermánšáh”
  • Czech: “Kirmánšáhán”
  • Danish: “Kermanshah”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kirmanşah”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kirmaşan”
  • Dutch: “Kermanshah”
  • Dutch: “Kermansjah”
  • Dutch: “Kirmansjah”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كرمانشاه”
  • Esperanto: “Kermanŝah”
  • Esperanto: “Kermānŝāh”
  • Esperanto: “Kermanŝaho”
  • Esperanto: “Kermanŝaĥo”
  • Esperanto: “Kermanŝh”
  • Esperanto: “Kermanshaho”
  • Esperanto: “Kirmaşan”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Kermanŝah”
  • Finnish: “Bākhtarān”
  • Finnish: “Kermanšah”
  • Finnish: “Kermānšāh”
  • Finnish: “Kermanshah”
  • Finnish: “Kermānshāh”
  • French: “Kermanchah”
  • French: “Kermanshah”
  • French: “Province de Kermanshah”
  • French: “Qirmasin”
  • Georgian: “ქირმანშაჰი”
  • German: “Bahtaran”
  • German: “Bakhtaran”
  • German: “Kermanschah”
  • German: “Kermānschāh”
  • German: “Kermanshah”
  • German: “Kirmaschan”
  • German: “Kirmashan”
  • Greek: “Κερμανσάχ”
  • Gujarati: “કેરમેનશાહ”
  • Hebrew: “כרמאנשאה”
  • Hindi: “कर्मानशाह (बख्तरान)”
  • Hindi: “कर्मानशाह”
  • Hindi: “किर्मानशाह”
  • Hungarian: “Kermánsáh”
  • Indonesian: “Kermanshah”
  • Irish: “Kermanshah”
  • Italian: “Kermanshah”
  • Japanese: “ケルマーンシャー”
  • Javanese: “Kermanshah”
  • Kannada: “ಕೆರ್ಮಾನ್ಶ”
  • Kannada: “ಕೆರ್ಮಾನ್ಷಾ”
  • Kashmiri: “کرمانشاہ”
  • Kazakh: “Kermanşax”
  • Kazakh: “Керманшах”
  • Kazakh: “كەرمانشاح”
  • Kirghiz: “Керманшах”
  • Korean: “바흐타란”
  • Korean: “케르만샤”
  • Kurdish: “Kermanşah”
  • Kurdish: “Kirmanşah”
  • Kurdish: “Kirmanşan”
  • Kurdish: “Kirmanshah”
  • Kurdish: “Kirmaşan”
  • Kurdish: “کرماشان”
  • Latin: “Cermaniae sachus”
  • Latin: “Kermanchah”
  • Latvian: “Kermānšāha”
  • Lithuanian: “Bachtaranas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kermanšachas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kermanšahas”
  • Malagasy: “Kermanshah”
  • Malay: “Kermanshah”
  • Malayalam: “കെർമാൻഷാ”
  • Maori: “Keremanaha”
  • Maori: “Kermanshah”
  • Marathi: “केरमनशाह”
  • Mazanderani: “کرمانشاه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kermanshah”
  • Mingrelian: “ქერმანშაჰი”
  • Mongolian: “Керманшах”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kermaanschaah”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kermanshah”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kermanshah”
  • Norwegian: “Kermanshah”
  • Ossetian: “Керманшах”
  • Persian: “استان کرمانشاه”
  • Persian: “باختران”
  • Persian: “شهر کرمانشاه”
  • Persian: “کرماشان”
  • Persian: “کِرماشَه”
  • Persian: “کرمانشاه”
  • Polish: “Bachtaran”
  • Polish: “Kermanszah”
  • Portuguese: “Kermanshah”
  • Portuguese: “Província de Kermanshah”
  • Portuguese: “Quermanxá”
  • Romanian: “Kermanshah”
  • Russian: “Бахтаран”
  • Russian: “Керманшах”
  • Scots: “Kermanshah”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kermanshah”
  • Serbian: “Керманшах”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kermanšah”
  • Silesian: “Kermanszah (mjasto)”
  • Silesian: “Kermanszah”
  • Sinhala: “කර්මන්ෂා”
  • Slovenian: “Kermānschāh”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کیرمانشاه”
  • Spanish: “Bajtaran”
  • Spanish: “Bakhtaran”
  • Spanish: “Kermanshah”
  • Spanish: “Kirmanshah”
  • Swedish: “Kermanshah”
  • Swedish: “Kermānshāh”
  • Swedish: “Kirmasan”
  • Swedish: “Kirmaşan”
  • Tajik: “Kirmonşoh”
  • Tajik: “Кирмоншоҳ”
  • Tajik: “Устони Кирмоншоҳ”
  • Tamil: “கெர்மன்சா”
  • Tamil: “கெர்மான்ஷா”
  • Tatar: “Кирманшаһ”
  • Telugu: “కెర్మన్షా”
  • Thai: “เคร์มอนชอฮ์”
  • Turkish: “Kirmanşah”
  • Ukrainian: “Керманшах”
  • Urdu: “کرمانشاہ”
  • Uzbek: “Kirmonshoh”
  • Venetian: “Kermanshah”
  • Vietnamese: “Kermanshah”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kermanshah”
  • Welsh: “Kermanshah”
  • Western Panjabi: “کرمانشاہ”
  • Wolof: “Kermanshah”
  • Wu Chinese: “克尔曼沙赫”
  • Yue Chinese: “克爾曼沙赫”

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