Kish Island

Kish Island is a beautiful island and tourist resort on the north east of the Persian Gulf, about 17 km from the southern offshore of the mainland . Kish is a free trade zone.
  • Island
  • …has 39,900 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 32 metres (105 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code KIH
  • Description: island in Bandar Lengeh County, Iran
  • Also known as
    “Aphrodisias”
    “Arakata”
    “Arakia”
    “Cataga”
    “Cyprusa”
    “Ghiss”
    “Jazīreh-ye Kīsh”
    “Jazīreh-ye Qeys”
    “Kais Island”
    “Kamtina”
    “Kataie”
    “Ḳays”
    “Qais”
    “Qais Island”
    “Qeys”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kish Island International Airport.
Kish International Airport is an international airport on Kish Island, .

Kish Island

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Latitude
26.5351° or 26° 32′ 6″ north
Longitude
53.972° or 53° 58′ 19″ east
UN/LOCODE
IR KIH
Open location code
7HRMGXPC+2Q
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Kish Island” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kisj (eiland)”
  • Afrikaans: “Kisj”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة كيش”
  • Arabic: “كيش (جزيرة)”
  • Arabic: “كيش”
  • Armenian: “Քիշ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kiş adası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kiş”
  • Basque: “Kish uhartea”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Кіш”
  • Belarusian: “Кіш”
  • Catalan: “Kays”
  • Cebuano: “Kish Island”
  • Central Kurdish: “دوورگەی کیش”
  • Chinese: “基什岛”
  • Croatian: “Kiš”
  • Czech: “Kiš”
  • Dutch: “Kish”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزیره کیش”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيش”
  • Esperanto: “Kiŝ”
  • Estonian: “Kīsh”
  • Finnish: “Kishinsaari”
  • Finnish: “Kišinsaari”
  • French: “Île de Kish”
  • French: “Kich”
  • French: “Kish”
  • Georgian: “ქიში (კუნძული)”
  • Georgian: “ქიში”
  • German: “Keis”
  • German: “Kîš”
  • German: “Kisch”
  • German: “Kish”
  • Greek: “Νήσος Κις”
  • Hebrew: “כיש”
  • Hindi: “कीश द्वीप”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Kish”
  • Italian: “Kish”
  • Italian: “Qais”
  • Japanese: “キーシュ島”
  • Kashmiri: “کیش جزیرٕ”
  • Korean: “키시 섬”
  • Korean: “키시섬”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kisch”
  • Macedonian: “Киш (остров)”
  • Macedonian: “Киш”
  • Malayalam: “കിഷ് ദ്വീപ്”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kish”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kish”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Øya Kish”
  • Ossetian: “Киш (сакъадах)”
  • Ossetian: “Киш”
  • Persian: “جزیره کیش”
  • Persian: “کیش”
  • Polish: “Kisz”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Kish”
  • Portuguese: “Kish”
  • Portuguese: “Quixe”
  • Romanian: “Kish, Iran”
  • Russian: “Кейс”
  • Russian: “Киш (остров)”
  • Russian: “Киш”
  • Russian: “Остров Киш”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kiš”
  • Sindhi: “ڪيش ٻيٽ”
  • Sindhi: “ڪيش”
  • Spanish: “Kish”
  • Swedish: “Kish”
  • Turkish: “Kiş Adası”
  • Turkish: “Kiş”
  • Ukrainian: “Кіш (острів)”
  • Ukrainian: “Кіш”
  • Urdu: “کیش”
  • Uzbek: “Kish oroli”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیش”
  • Wu Chinese: “基什岛”

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