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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  • City with about 1,570,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 1,550 metres (5,070 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code SYZ
  • …is also known as “Chimaz”
  • Description: city in Fars Province, Iran
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Shah Cheragh Holy Shrine and South Vakil Bazaar.
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Mosque
The Shah Cheragh is a Twelver Shia funerary monument…
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Marketplace
Vakil Bazaar is a bazaar in central Shiraz, .
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Garden
Qavam House, also known as Narenjestan-e Qavam…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Golestan Square.
Neighborhood
Shiraz is the fifth-most-populous city of and the…

Shiraz

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Latitude
29.606° or 29° 36′ 22″ north
Longitude
52.5378° or 52° 32′ 16″ east
UN/LOCODE
IR SYZ
Open location code
7HXJJG4Q+C4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26082452
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
115019
Wiki­data ID
Q6397066

Satellite Map

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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”
  • Balinese: “Shiraz”
  • Basque: “Xiraz”
  • Belarusian: “Шыраз”
  • Bengali: “শিরাজ”
  • Bosnian: “Širaz”
  • Breton: “Shiraz”
  • Bulgarian: “Шираз”
  • Catalan: “Siraz”
  • Catalan: “Xiraz”
  • Cebuano: “Shiraz”
  • Central Kurdish: “شیراز”
  • Chechen: “Шираз”
  • 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: “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: “Ширааз”
  • Mongolian: “Шираз”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “شيراز”
  • Northern Frisian: “Schiiraaz”
  • Northern Luri: “شیراز”
  • Northern Sami: “Širaz”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Shiraz”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shiraz”
  • Norwegian: “Shiraz”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Shiraz”
  • Ossetian: “Шираз”
  • Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਿਰਾਜ਼”
  • Papiamento: “Shiraz”
  • 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: “Šíráz”
  • Slovenian: “Širaz”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شیراز”
  • Spanish: “ciudad de la poesía”
  • 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”
  • Tatar: “Шираз”
  • Telugu: “షిరాజ్”
  • Thai: “ชีรอซ”
  • Thai: “ชีราซ”
  • 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: “史拉子”
  • Yue Chinese: “設拉子”

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