Iran
Khorasan
Razavi Khorasan Province

Mashhad

Almost everything about Mashhad relates to its role as the holiest city in Iran, even its name. As the capital of 's province, Mashhad's year-round cool temperatures and fascinating insights into the Shi'ite heartland have much to offer visitors.
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  • Type: City with 3,000,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Razavi Khorasan Province, and second largest city in Iran
  • Also known as: “Holy Mashhad”, “Mashad”, “Mašhad”, “Mashed”, “Mashhad, Iran”, “Mesched”, “Meshed”, “Mešhed”, “Meshhed”, “Sanabad”, “Sanâbâd”, and “Tus”
  • Historically known as: “Alexandria” and “Sanaabad”
Photo: Mazi.ahmadi, Public domain.
Photo: Farnaz Ghandi, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Imam Reza shrine and Gowharshad Mosque.

Mosque
Photo: Iahsan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a Shi'ite shrine, imamzadeh and mausoleum complex, located in the east of Mashhad, in the province of , . The shrine contains the grave of Ali al-Rida, who is regarded as the eighth Imam in Shia Islam.

Mosque
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The Goharshad Mosque is a grand Friday mosque that is part of the Imam Reza Shrine complex, located in Mashhad, in the province of Razavi Khorasan, .

Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Cyaxares7, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Tomb of Nader Shah, also known as the Mausoleum of Nader Shah, is a mausoleum located in Mashhad, in the northeastern province of , .

Mashhad

Latitude
36.2975° or 36° 17′ 51″ north
Longitude
59.6059° or 59° 36′ 21″ east
Population
3,000,000
Elevation
980 metres (3,215 feet)
IATA airport code
MHD
United Nations Location Code
IR MHD
Open location code
8H8X7JW4+X9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26038568
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
124665
Wiki­data ID
Q121157
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Mashhad” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Mashhad”
  • Afrikaans: “Masjhad”
  • Albanian: “Meshhed”
  • Arabic: “مشهد المقدسة”
  • Arabic: “مشهد”
  • Armenian: “Մաշհադ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Məşhəd”
  • Bashkir: “Мәшһәд”
  • Basque: “Maxhad”
  • Belarusian: “Мешхед”
  • Belarusian: “Мэшхэд”
  • Bengali: “মাশহাদ”
  • Bosnian: “Mašhad”
  • Breton: “Mashhad”
  • Bulgarian: “Машхад”
  • Bulgarian: “Мешхед”
  • Catalan: “Maixhad”
  • Catalan: “Mashad”
  • Catalan: “Mašhad”
  • Catalan: “Mashdad”
  • Catalan: “Mashhad”
  • Catalan: “Meixad”
  • Catalan: “Meshad”
  • Catalan: “Meshed”
  • Cebuano: “Mašhad”
  • Cebuano: “Mashhad”
  • Central Kurdish: “مەشھەد”
  • Chechen: “МешхӀед”
  • Chinese: “Mashhad”
  • Chinese: “馬什哈德/马什哈德”
  • Chinese: “馬什哈德”
  • Chinese: “馬斯哈德”
  • Chinese: “马什哈德”
  • Chinese: “马什哈德市”
  • Chinese: “马沙德”
  • Chinese: “麥什德”
  • Chinese: “麦什德”
  • Croatian: “Mašad”
  • Croatian: “Mašhad”
  • Czech: “Mašchad”
  • Czech: “Mašhad”
  • Czech: “Mashhad”
  • Danish: “Mashhad”
  • Dutch: “Mashad”
  • Dutch: “Mashhad”
  • Dutch: “Mesjhed”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شهرستان خواف”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مشهد”
  • Erzya: “Машхад”
  • Erzya: “Мешхед ош”
  • Erzya: “Мешхед”
  • Esperanto: “Maŝado”
  • Esperanto: “Maŝhado”
  • Esperanto: “Mashhad”
  • Estonian: “Mašhad”
  • Estonian: “Mashhad”
  • Estonian: “Mešhed”
  • Finnish: “Mashad”
  • Finnish: “Mašhad”
  • Finnish: “Mashhad”
  • French: “Machhad”
  • French: “Mashad”
  • French: “Mashhad”
  • French: “Meched”
  • Galician: “Mashhad”
  • Georgian: “მეშჰედი”
  • German: “Maschad”
  • German: “Masched”
  • German: “Maschhad”
  • German: “Mashad”
  • German: “Mashhad”
  • German: “Mesched”
  • German: “Meschhed”
  • German: “Meshed”
  • Gilaki: “مشهد”
  • Greek: “Μασάντ”
  • Greek: “Μασχάντ”
  • Gujarati: “મશહાદ”
  • Hausa: “Mashhad”
  • Hebrew: “משהאד”
  • Hebrew: “משהד”
  • Hindi: “मशहद”
  • Hindi: “मशहाद”
  • Hindi: “माशहाद”
  • Hungarian: “Meshed”
  • Ido: “Mashad”
  • Indonesian: “Mashhad”
  • Indonesian: “Masyhad”
  • Interlingua: “Mashhad”
  • Interlingue: “Mashdad”
  • Irish: “Mashhad”
  • Italian: “Mashhad”
  • Japanese: “マシハド”
  • Japanese: “マシャッド”
  • Japanese: “マシャド”
  • Japanese: “マシュハド”
  • Japanese: “メシェッド”
  • Japanese: “メシェド”
  • Kalaallisut: “Mashhad”
  • Kannada: “ಮಶಹದ್”
  • Kazakh: “Meşxed”
  • Kazakh: “Машһад”
  • Kazakh: “Мешхед”
  • Kazakh: “Мешһед”
  • Kazakh: “مەشحەد”
  • Kirghiz: “Мешхед”
  • Korean: “마슈하드”
  • Kurdish: “Meşhed”
  • Kurdish: “مەشهەد”
  • Latin: “Mexatum”
  • Latvian: “Mashhad”
  • Latvian: “Mešheda”
  • Lithuanian: “Mešchedas”
  • Lithuanian: “Mešhedas”
  • Macedonian: “Мешхед”
  • Malagasy: “Mashhad”
  • Malay: “Mashad”
  • Malay: “Mashhad”
  • Malayalam: “Mashhad”
  • Malayalam: “മശ്‌ഹദ്”
  • Malayalam: “മഷാദ്”
  • Maori: “Mahara”
  • Maori: “Mashhad”
  • Marathi: “मशहद”
  • Mazanderani: “مشهد”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mashhad”
  • Mingrelian: “მეშჰედი”
  • Moksha: “Мэшхэд”
  • Mongolian: “Машхад”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mashhad”
  • Norwegian: “Mashhad”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mashhad”
  • Ossetian: “Машхад”
  • Ossetian: “Мешхед”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਸ਼ਹਦ”
  • Persian: “پایتخت معنوی ایران”
  • Persian: “سناباد” (historical)
  • Persian: “مشهد مقدس”
  • Persian: “مشهد”
  • Polish: “Maszhad”
  • Polish: “Meszhed”
  • Portuguese: “Mashad”
  • Portuguese: “Mashhad”
  • Portuguese: “Meshed”
  • Portuguese: “Mexed”
  • Portuguese: “Mexede”
  • Pushto: “مشهد”
  • Quechua: “Mashhad”
  • Quechua: “Mešhed”
  • Romanian: “Mașhad”
  • Romanian: “Mashhad”
  • Russia Buriat: “Мешхед”
  • Russian: “Машхад”
  • Russian: “Мешхед”
  • Scots: “Mashhad”
  • Serbian: “Maschhad”
  • Serbian: “Mešhed”
  • Serbian: “Машхад”
  • Serbian: “Мешхед”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mašhad”
  • Silesian: “Meszhed”
  • Sindhi: “مشھد”
  • Sinhala: “මාෂාඩ්”
  • Slovak: “Mašhad”
  • Slovenian: “Mašhad”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مشهد”
  • Spanish: “Mashad”
  • Spanish: “Mashäd”
  • Spanish: “Mäshäd”
  • Spanish: “Mashhad”
  • Spanish: “Meshed”
  • Spanish: “Mešhed”
  • Swedish: “Mashad”
  • Swedish: “Mashhad”
  • Swedish: “Meshed”
  • Tagalog: “Mashhad”
  • Tajik: “Maşhad”
  • Tajik: “Машҳад”
  • Tamil: “மசுகாத்”
  • Tamil: “மஸ்சாத்”
  • Tatar: “Mäşhäd”
  • Tatar: “Мәшһәд”
  • Telugu: “మష్షాద్”
  • Thai: “มัชฮัด”
  • Thai: “แมชแฮด”
  • Turkish: “Meşhed”
  • Turkmen: “Maşat”
  • Uighur: “مەشھەد”
  • Ukrainian: “Мешхед”
  • Urdu: “مشھد”
  • Urdu: “مشہد المقدس”
  • Urdu: “مشہد”
  • Uzbek: “Mashhad”
  • Venetian: “Mashhad”
  • Veps: “Mešhed”
  • Vietnamese: “Mashhad”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mashhad”
  • Welsh: “Mashhad”
  • Western Panjabi: “مشهد”
  • Western Panjabi: “مشہد”
  • Wolof: “Mashhad”
  • Wu Chinese: “马什哈德”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬斯哈德”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Mashhad”. Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GFDL.