Central Iran
Fars
Shiraz County

Shiraz

Shiraz is the capital city of the province and a treasure trove of Persian culture. It was the capital of during the Zand dynasty's era, and is the celebrated birthplace of the great Persian poets Hafiz and Saadi.
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  • Type: City with 1,570,000 residents
  • Description: city in Fars Province, Iran
  • Also known as: “Chimaz”
Photo: parapet, CC BY 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shah Cheragh Holy Shrine and South Vakil Bazaar.

Mosque
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Shah Cheragh is a Twelver Shi'ite funerary monument and religious complex located in Shiraz, in the province of , . The 12th-century complex is centred around the mausoleum of Sayyid Ahmad, the son of Musa al-Kazim, who is known as Shah Cheragh in local traditions, and hence the building's name.

Marketplace
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Vakil Bazaar is a bazaar in central Shiraz, .

Museum
Photo: Hooman Mallahzadeh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a museum in Shiraz, , . Founded in 1936 under Reza Shah Pahlavi, it is located in Nazar Garden. The octagonal building was the place in which royal guests were hosted by the Zand dynasty of Iran.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Golestan Square.

Neighborhood
Shiraz is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of , historically known by the exonym Persia proper. As of the 2016 national census, the population of the city was 1,565,572 people, and its built-up area with was home to almost 1,800,000 inhabitants.

Shiraz

Latitude
29.606° or 29° 36′ 22″ north
Longitude
52.5378° or 52° 32′ 16″ east
Population
1,570,000
Elevation
1,545 metres (5,069 feet)
IATA airport code
SYZ
United Nations Location Code
IR SYZ
Open location code
7HXJJG4Q+C4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26082452
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
115019
Wiki­data ID
Q6397066
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Shiraz” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sjiraz”
  • Albanian: “Shirazi”
  • Arabic: “شيراز”
  • Armenian: “Շիրազ”
  • Asturian: “Shiraz”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şiraz”
  • Basque: “Xiraz”
  • Belarusian: “Шыраз”
  • Bengali: “শিরাজ”
  • Bosnian: “Širaz”
  • Breton: “Shiraz”
  • Bulgarian: “Шираз”
  • Catalan: “Siraz”
  • Catalan: “Xiraz”
  • Cebuano: “Shiraz”
  • Central Kurdish: “شیراز”
  • Chechen: “Шираз”
  • Chinese: “史拉子”
  • Chinese: “失剌思”
  • Chinese: “西菈子”
  • Chinese: “設拉子”
  • Chinese: “设拉子”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Şiraz”
  • Croatian: “Širaz”
  • Czech: “Šíráz”
  • Danish: “Shiraz”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Şiraz”
  • Dutch: “Shiraz”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شيراز”
  • Erzya: “Шираз ош”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝirazo”
  • Estonian: “Shīrāz”
  • Finnish: “Shiraz”
  • Finnish: “Šīrāz”
  • French: “Chiraz”
  • French: “Shiraz”
  • Galician: “Xiraz”
  • Georgian: “შირაზი”
  • German: “Schiras”
  • Gilaki: “شیراز”
  • Greek: “Σιράζ”
  • Gujarati: “શિરાઝ”
  • Hausa: “Shiraz”
  • Hebrew: “שיראז”
  • Hindi: “शीराज”
  • Hindi: “शीराज़”
  • Hungarian: “Siráz”
  • Icelandic: “Shiraz”
  • Indonesian: “Shiraz”
  • Indonesian: “Syiraz”
  • Interlingua: “Shiraz”
  • Irish: “Shiraz”
  • Italian: “Shiraz”
  • Japanese: “シーラーズ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Shiraz”
  • Kannada: “ಶಿರಾಜ್”
  • Kannada: “ಶೀರಾಝ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Shiraz”
  • Kazakh: “Шираз”
  • Kirghiz: “Шираз”
  • Korean: “시라즈”
  • Kurdish: “Şîraz”
  • Latin: “Schirasium”
  • Latin: “Sirasium”
  • Latvian: “Šīrāza”
  • Literary Chinese: “失剌思”
  • Lithuanian: “Širazas”
  • Macedonian: “Шираз”
  • Malagasy: “Shiraz”
  • Malay: “Shiraz”
  • Malayalam: “ഷിറാസ്”
  • Maltese: “Shiraz”
  • Maltese: “Xiraz”
  • Maori: “Shiraz”
  • Marathi: “शिराझ”
  • Mazanderani: “شیراز”
  • Mingrelian: “შირაზი”
  • Moksha: “Шираз”
  • Mongolian: “Шираз”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “شيراز”
  • Northern Luri: “شیراز”
  • Northern Sami: “Širaz”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Shiraz”
  • Norwegian: “Shiraz”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Shiraz”
  • Ossetian: “Шираз”
  • Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਿਰਾਜ਼”
  • Panjabi: “ਸ਼ੀਰਾਜ਼”
  • Persian: “تیرازیس”
  • Persian: “شهر راز”
  • Persian: “شهر گل و بلبل”
  • Persian: “شیراز”
  • Persian: “کلانشهر شیراز”
  • Polish: “Sziraz”
  • Portuguese: “Chiraz”
  • Portuguese: “Shiraz”
  • Portuguese: “Xiraz”
  • Pushto: “شیراز”
  • Quechua: “Shiraz”
  • Quechua: “Širâz”
  • Romanian: “Shiraz”
  • Russian: “Шираз”
  • Sardinian: “Shiraz”
  • Scots: “Shiraz”
  • Serbian: “Шираз”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Širaz”
  • Silesian: “Sziraz”
  • Sindhi: “شيراز”
  • Sinhala: “ශිරාස්”
  • Slovak: “Širáz”
  • Slovak: “Šíráz”
  • Slovenian: “Širaz”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شیراز”
  • Spanish: “ciudad de la poesia”
  • Spanish: “ciudad de la poesía”
  • Spanish: “ciudad de las luciernagas”
  • Spanish: “ciudad de las luciérnagas”
  • Spanish: “ciudad de las rosas”
  • Spanish: “ciudad del vino”
  • Spanish: “Shiraz”
  • Spanish: “Širâz”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵛⵉⵔⴰⵣ”
  • Swahili: “Shiraz”
  • Swedish: “Shiraz”
  • Swiss German: “Schiras”
  • Tachelhit: “Ciraz”
  • Tajik: “Шероз”
  • Tamil: “சிராசு”
  • Tamil: “சீராசு”
  • Tatar: “Шираз”
  • Telugu: “షిరాజ్”
  • Thai: “ชีรอซ”
  • Thai: “ชีราซ”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Schiras”
  • Turkish: “Şiraz”
  • Turkmen: “Şiraz”
  • Udmurt: “Шираз”
  • Uighur: “شىراز”
  • Ukrainian: “Шираз”
  • Ukrainian: “Шіраз (Іран)”
  • Urdu: “شیراز”
  • Uzbek: “Sheroz”
  • Venetian: “Shiraz”
  • Vietnamese: “Shiraz”
  • Võro: “Širaz”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Shiraz, Iran”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Shiraz”
  • Welsh: “Shiraz”
  • Western Panjabi: “شیراز”
  • Wolof: “Shiraz”
  • Wu Chinese: “设拉子”
  • Yue Chinese: “設拉子”
  • “Širaz”

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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 “Shiraz”. Photo: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0.