Middle East
Iran
Kurdistan Province

Sanandaj

Sanandaj, also called "Senna" is a city in the of . Sanandaj occupies a fertile valley in the Zagros Mountains. The city is a major manufacturing and retail trade center with many diverse products, including carpets, cotton textiles, leather, metal ware, cutlery, pottery, wood furniture and wood crafts, milled rice, refined sugar, and processed foods.
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  • Type: City with 413,000 residents
  • Description: city in Kurdistan Province, Iran
  • Also known as: “Sanandaj, Iran”, “Sanandaj, Kurdistan”, “Sanandij”, “Senna”, and “Sinandij”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dar ul-Ihsan and Kurd House - Asif Mansion.

Mosque
Photo: Korsoon, Public domain.
The Dar ol-Ehsan Mosque, also known as the Jameh Mosque of Sanandaj, is a Friday mosque, located in the city of Sanandaj, western . The mosque was completed in 1812 CE, during the Qajar dynasty.

Historic house
Photo: Mahmoodrezamo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a historic house.

Historic building
Photo: Korsoon, Public domain.
The Khan Bathhouse is a Qajar era public bath in Sanandaj, . It was built in 1805 by the order of Amanollah Khan Ardalan, and was later repaired in 1878. It was listed in the national heritage sites of Iran with the number 2603 on 15 March, 2000.

Sanandaj

Latitude
35.3126° or 35° 18′ 45″ north
Longitude
46.9979° or 46° 59′ 52″ east
Population
413,000
Elevation
1,494 metres (4,902 feet)
IATA airport code
SDG
United Nations Location Code
IR SDG
Open location code
8H788X7X+24
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1932879629
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
117574
Wiki­data ID
Q272093
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wolof—“Sanandaj” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سنندج”
  • Armenian: “Սանանդաջ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sənəndəc”
  • Basque: “Sanandaj”
  • Belarusian: “Санандадж”
  • Belarusian: “Санандаж”
  • Belarusian: “Сенендэдж”
  • Belarusian: “Сэнэндэдж”
  • Bengali: “সানানডাজ”
  • Bulgarian: “Сенендедж”
  • Catalan: “Sanandadj”
  • Catalan: “Sanandaj”
  • Catalan: “Sanandajd”
  • Catalan: “Sine Dij”
  • Catalan: “Sine”
  • Catalan: “Sinne”
  • Cebuano: “Sanandaj (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Sanandaj”
  • Central Kurdish: “سنە”
  • Central Kurdish: “سنەدژ”
  • Central Kurdish: “سەنەندەج”
  • Central Kurdish: “شاری سنە”
  • Chinese: “Sanandaj”
  • Chinese: “萨南达季”
  • Chinese: “萨南达杰”
  • Chinese: “薩南達季”
  • Croatian: “Sanandadž”
  • Czech: “Sanandadž”
  • Danish: “Sanandaj”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Senendec”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Sine”
  • Dutch: “Sanandaj”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سنندج”
  • Esperanto: “Sanandaĝo”
  • Finnish: “Sanandaj”
  • French: “Sanandadj”
  • French: “Sanandaj”
  • French: “Senandaj”
  • French: “Senneh”
  • French: “Sinne”
  • French: “Sinneh”
  • Georgian: “სანანდაჯი”
  • German: “Sanandadsch”
  • German: “Sanandaj”
  • German: “Senneh”
  • Gilaki: “سنندج”
  • Greek: “Σαναντάτζ”
  • Greek: “Σίνε”
  • Gujarati: “સાનંદજ”
  • Hebrew: “סננדג‘”
  • Hebrew: “סננדג’”
  • Hindi: “सनंदज”
  • Hungarian: “Szanandadzs”
  • Indonesian: “Sanandaj”
  • Irish: “Sanandaj”
  • Italian: “Sanandaj”
  • Japanese: “サナンダージ”
  • Japanese: “サナンダジュ”
  • Javanese: “Sanandaj”
  • Kannada: “ಸನಂದಜ್”
  • Kannada: “ಸಾನಂದಾಜ್”
  • Korean: “사난다즈”
  • Korean: “사난다지”
  • Kurdish: “Sanadaj”
  • Kurdish: “Senedec”
  • Kurdish: “Senendej”
  • Kurdish: “Sine”
  • Kurdish: “Sîne”
  • Kurdish: “سنە”
  • Latvian: “Sanandadža”
  • Lithuanian: “Sanandadžas”
  • Lithuanian: “Senendedžas”
  • Macedonian: “Сенендеџ”
  • Malagasy: “Sanandaj”
  • Malay: “Sanandaj”
  • Malayalam: “സാനന്ദജ്”
  • Maori: “Sanandaj”
  • Marathi: “सनंदाज”
  • Mazanderani: “سنندج”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sanandaj”
  • Mingrelian: “სანანდაჯი”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sanandadsch”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sanandaj”
  • Norwegian: “Sanandaj”
  • Ossetian: “Сенендедж”
  • Persian: “سِنَّ”
  • Persian: “سنندج”
  • Persian: “سنه”
  • Persian: “سِنِّه”
  • Persian: “سنه‌دژ”
  • Persian: “شهر سنندج”
  • Polish: “Sanandadż”
  • Portuguese: “Sanandaj”
  • Romanian: “Sanandaj”
  • Russian: “Санандаж”
  • Russian: “Сенендедж”
  • Scots: “Sanandaj”
  • Serbian: “Санандаџ”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sanandadž”
  • Sinhala: “සනඩාජ්”
  • Slovenian: “Sanandadž”
  • Slovenian: “Sanandaj”
  • Slovenian: “Seneh”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سنندج”
  • Spanish: “Sanandaj (Kurdistán)”
  • Spanish: “Sanandaj”
  • Swedish: “Sanandaj”
  • Swedish: “Sine”
  • Tajik: “Sanandaç”
  • Tajik: “Санандаҷ”
  • Tamil: “சனன்டாஜ்”
  • Tatar: “Сәнәндәҗ”
  • Telugu: “సనందాజ్”
  • Thai: “แซแนนแดจ”
  • Turkish: “Senendec”
  • Ukrainian: “Сенендедж”
  • Urdu: “سنندج”
  • Venetian: “Sanandaj”
  • Vietnamese: “Sanandaj”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sanandaj”
  • Welsh: “Sanandaj”
  • Western Panjabi: “سنندج”
  • Wolof: “Sanandaj”

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