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 Emarat Khosro Abad.

Mosque
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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
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The Khosro Abad Mansion or the Khosro Abad Museum is a Zand and Qajar era mansion and , located in Sanandaj, , . It was awarded the UNESCO seal of authenticity, and was added to the Iran National Heritage List on 17 January 1977, administered by the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization of Iran.

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

Sanandaj

Latitude
35.3116° or 35° 18′ 42″ north
Longitude
46.9961° or 46° 59′ 46″ east
Population
413,000
Elevation
1,494 metres (4,902 feet)
IATA airport code
SDG
United Nations Location Code
IR SDG
Open location code
8H788X6W+JC
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”
  • Breton: “Sanandadj”
  • 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”
  • Kashmiri: “سَنَندَج”
  • 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: “Hananāta”
  • 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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