Rasht
Rasht is a city in the north of Iran 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.
- Type: City with 680,000 residents
- Description: city in Gilan Province, Iran
- Also known as: “Räsht”, “Raštas”, “Recht”, “Resjt”, “Rešt”, “Reszt”, “Ρεστ”, “Ращ”, “რეშტი”, “شهر باران”, “کلانشهر رشت”, and “ரெஸ்ட்”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Azodi and Gilan Cultural House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pir Kola Chah and Siah Estalakh.
Rasht
- Categories: city of Iran, big city, and locality
- Location: Gilan Province, Caspian Iran, Iran, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
UN/LOCODE
IR RAS
Open location code
8H9F7H9Q+WQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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: “Рэшт”
- Bengali: “রাশত”
- Bengali: “রাস্ট”
- Bulgarian: “Рещ”
- Catalan: “Raixt”
- Cebuano: “Rasht”
- Central Kurdish: “ڕەشت”
- Chinese: “拉什特”
- Croatian: “Rašt”
- Czech: “Rašt”
- Danish: “Rasht”
- Dimli (individual language): “Reşt”
- Dutch: “Rashjt”
- Dutch: “Rasjt”
- Egyptian Arabic: “رشت”
- Esperanto: “Raŝto”
- Finnish: “Rašt”
- French: “Racht”
- French: “Rasht”
- Georgian: “რეშთი”
- German: “Rascht”
- German: “Rasht”
- Gilaki: “رشت”
- Greek: “Ραστ”
- Greek: “Ράστ”
- 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”
- Kashmiri: “رشت”
- Kazakh: “Reşt”
- Kazakh: “Решт”
- Kazakh: “رەشت”
- Korean: “라슈트”
- Kurdish: “Reşt”
- Kurdish: “رەشت”
- Latvian: “Rešta”
- 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”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rasht”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rasht”
- Norwegian: “Rasht”
- Ossetian: “Решт”
- Persian: “رشت”
- Polish: “Raszt”
- Portuguese: “Rasht”
- Portuguese: “Resht”
- Romanian: “Rasht”
- Russian: “Решт”
- Scots: “Rasht”
- Serbian: “Рашт”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rašt”
- Silesian: “Raszt”
- Sinhala: “රාෂ්ට්”
- Slovenian: “Rašt”
- South Azerbaijani: “رشت”
- Spanish: “Rasht”
- Swedish: “Rasht”
- Tajik: “Raşt”
- Tajik: “Рашт”
- Talysh: “Rəšt”
- Tamil: “இரசுத்து”
- Tamil: “இராசுத்து”
- 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”
- Yue Chinese: “拉斯特”
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