Shemshak
Shemshak is a village in Iran with a popular ski resort. It is north-east of Tehran in the Alborz mountain range. Shemshak is the second largest ski area in Iran after Dizin and came into operation in 1958.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Darband Sar and Jirud.
Shemshak
- Type: Town with 3,420 residents
- Description: city in Tehran Province, Iran
- Categories: city of Iran and locality
- Location: Alborz, Western Iran, Iran, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
36.0114° or 36° 0′ 41″ north
Longitude
51.4909° or 51° 29′ 27″ east
Population
3,420
Elevation
2,798 metres (9,180 feet)
Open location code
8H8H2F6R+G9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Shemshak” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شمشك”
- Central Kurdish: “شەمشەک”
- Dutch: “Shemshak”
- French: “Shemshak”
- German: “Schemschak”
- Hindi: “शेमशक”
- Irish: “Shemshak”
- Kurdish: “Şêmşek”
- Malagasy: “Shemshak”
- Mazanderani: “شمشک”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Shemshak”
- Persian: “شمشک”
- Polish: “Szemszak”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Šemšak”
- Tajik: “Шемшак”
- Urdu: “شمشک، تہران”
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