Rayen
Rayen is a city in Kerman. Rayen is everything Bam used to be before the earthquake. Rayen has a historic Arg built entirely of sun-dried mud bricks. Its historic city has countless mudbrick houses, some of them decaying, but it is this decaying charm that makes the city even more attractive.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: لاشار کوبچ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 10,300 residents
- Description: city in Kerman Province, Iran
- Also known as: “Rāyīn”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Arg-e Rayen (Rayen Castle).
Arg-e Rayen (Rayen Castle)
Photo: ninara, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Rayen Castle is a historic adobe fortress situated in the city of Rayen, about 100 kilometers south of Kerman, Iran. The castle and the mudbrick city it protects display numerous architectural elements and design strategies recognized as hallmarks of Iranian citadels.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mozaffarabad.
Mozaffarabad
Village
Mozaffarabad is a village in Rayen Rural District, Rayen District, Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 71, in 21 families. Mozaffarabad is situated 6 km northwest of Rayen.
Rayen
- Categories: city of Iran and locality
- Location: Kerman, Central Iran, Iran, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.5981° or 29° 35′ 53″ northLongitude
57.4365° or 57° 26′ 11″ eastPopulation
10,300Elevation
2,193 metres (7,195 feet)Open location code
7HXVHCXP+7HOpenStreetMap ID
node 248862920OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
118696Wikidata ID
Q498130
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Rayen” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “راين”
- Azerbaijani: “Rayen”
- Cebuano: “Rāyen”
- Central Kurdish: “ڕایەن”
- Chinese: “Rayen”
- Dutch: “Rayen”
- French: “Rayen”
- Irish: “Rayen”
- Italian: “Rayen”
- Japanese: “ラーイェン”
- Malagasy: “Rayen”
- Mazanderani: “راین (کرمان)”
- Mazanderani: “راین”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Rayen”
- Persian: “رائین”
- Persian: “راین”
- Persian: “شهر راین”
- Russian: “Райен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rajen”
- South Azerbaijani: “راین (شهر)”
- South Azerbaijani: “راین”
- Spanish: “Rayen”
- Swedish: “Rāyen”
- Swiss German: “Rajen”
- Thai: “รอเยน”
- Tosk Albanian: “Rajen”
- Turkish: “Rayen”
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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 “Rayen”. Photo: لاشار کوبچ, CC BY-SA 3.0.