Rasht

Rasht is a city in the north of around 40 km from the shore of the Caspian Sea. Rasht is known in Iran for its beauty and its parks. People for all around the country come there to experience much wetter and colder climate than the rest of the country.
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  • Type: City with 680,000 residents
  • Description: city in Gilan Province, Iran
  • Also known as: “Racht”, “Rascht”, “Recht”, and “Resht”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Azodi and Gilan Cultural House.

Stadium
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The Shahid Dr. Stadium is a multipurpose stadium in Rasht, . It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of S.C. Damash Gilan, who play in the Persian Gulf Pro League. The stadium holds up to 15,000 people.

Community center
Photo: Samanehgolzadeh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a community center.

Manor estate
Photo: Feri131, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a manor estate.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pir Kola Chah and Siah Estalakh.

Village
is a village in Howmeh Rural District of the Central District in Rasht County, province, .

Village
is a village in Pir Bazar Rural District of the Central District in Rasht County, province, .

Rasht

Latitude
37.2698° or 37° 16′ 11″ north
Longitude
49.5895° or 49° 35′ 22″ east
Population
680,000
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
IATA airport code
RAS
United Nations Location Code
IR RAS
Open location code
8H9F7H9Q+WQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4526985879
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
118743
Wiki­data ID
Q178373
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Rasht” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “رشت”
  • Armenian: “Ռաշթ”
  • Armenian: “Ռեշտ”
  • Asturian: “Rasht”
  • Azerbaijani: “Rəşt”
  • Basque: “Raxt”
  • Belarusian: “Рашт”
  • Belarusian: “Рэшт”
  • Bengali: “রাশত”
  • Bengali: “রাস্ট”
  • Bulgarian: “Ращ”
  • Bulgarian: “Решт”
  • Bulgarian: “Рещ”
  • Catalan: “Raixt”
  • Catalan: “Rasht”
  • Catalan: “Recht”
  • Catalan: “Resht”
  • Cebuano: “Rasht”
  • Central Kurdish: “رەشت”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕەشت”
  • Chinese: “Rasht”
  • Chinese: “拉什特”
  • Chinese: “拉斯特”
  • Croatian: “Rašt”
  • Czech: “Rašt”
  • Danish: “Rasht”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Reşt”
  • Dutch: “Rashjt”
  • Dutch: “Rasht”
  • Dutch: “Rasjt”
  • Dutch: “Resjt”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “رشت”
  • Esperanto: “Raŝto”
  • Finnish: “Rasht”
  • Finnish: “Rašt”
  • Finnish: “Resht”
  • Finnish: “Rešt”
  • French: “Racht”
  • French: “Rasht”
  • Georgian: “რეშთი”
  • Georgian: “რეშტი”
  • German: “Rascht”
  • German: “Rasht”
  • Gilaki: “رشت”
  • Greek: “Ραστ”
  • Greek: “Ράστ”
  • Greek: “Ρεστ”
  • Gujarati: “રશ્ત”
  • Hebrew: “ראשת”
  • Hebrew: “רשת”
  • Hindi: “रश्त”
  • Hungarian: “Rast”
  • Indonesian: “Rasht”
  • Irish: “Rasht”
  • Italian: “Rasht”
  • Japanese: “ラシュト”
  • Kannada: “ರಾಶ್ಚ್”
  • Kannada: “ರಾಶ್ತ್”
  • Kazakh: “Reşt”
  • Kazakh: “Решт”
  • Kazakh: “رەشت”
  • Korean: “라슈트”
  • Kurdish: “Reşt”
  • Kurdish: “رەشت”
  • Latvian: “Rešta”
  • Lithuanian: “Raštas”
  • Lithuanian: “Reštas”
  • Malagasy: “Rasht”
  • Malay: “Rasht”
  • Malayalam: “റാഷ്ത്”
  • Maori: “Rasht”
  • Marathi: “रश”
  • Mazanderani: “رشت”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Rasht”
  • Mingrelian: “რაშთი”
  • Moksha: “Рэшт”
  • Northern Frisian: “Rascht”
  • Northern Frisian: “Rasht”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rasht”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rasht”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Resht”
  • Norwegian: “Rasht”
  • Ossetian: “Решт”
  • Persian: “رشت”
  • Persian: “شهر باران”
  • Persian: “کلانشهر رشت”
  • Polish: “Raszt”
  • Polish: “Reszt”
  • Portuguese: “Rasht”
  • Portuguese: “Resht”
  • Romanian: “Rasht”
  • Russian: “Рашт”
  • Russian: “Решт”
  • Scots: “Rasht”
  • Serbian: “Рашт”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rašt”
  • Silesian: “Raszt”
  • Sinhala: “රාෂ්ට්”
  • Slovenian: “Rašt”
  • South Azerbaijani: “رشت”
  • Spanish: “Rasht”
  • Spanish: “Räsht”
  • Spanish: “Resht”
  • Swedish: “Rasht”
  • Swedish: “Resht”
  • Tajik: “Raşt”
  • Tajik: “Рашт”
  • Talysh: “Rəšt”
  • Tamil: “இரசுத்து”
  • Tamil: “இராசுத்து”
  • Tamil: “ரெஸ்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Рәшт”
  • Telugu: “రస్త్”
  • Thai: “แรชต์”
  • Turkish: “Reşt”
  • Uighur: “رەشت”
  • Ukrainian: “Решт”
  • Urdu: “رشت”
  • Uzbek: “Rasht”
  • Venetian: “Rasht”
  • Vietnamese: “Rasht”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rasht”
  • Welsh: “Rasht”
  • Western Panjabi: “رشت”
  • Wolof: “Rasht”
  • Wu Chinese: “拉什特”
  • Yue Chinese: “拉什特”

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