Shush
Shush is a small town of just over 50,000 people in Khuzestan, which is the site of the ancient city of Susa.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 77,100 residents
- Description: city in Khuzestan Province, Iran
- Also known as: “Shoosh”, “Shush, Iran”, “Susa”, and “Sūsa”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tomb of Daniel.
Tomb of Daniel
Tomb
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Tomb of Daniel is the traditional burial place of the biblical figure Daniel. Various locations have been named for the site, however the tomb in Susa, in the province of Khuzestan, Iran, is the most widely accepted site, it being first mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela, who visited Western Asia between 1160 and 1163 CE.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Amaleh-ye Seyf and Sheykh Hanush.
Amaleh-ye Seyf
Village
Amaleh-ye Seyf is a village in Ben Moala Rural District of the Central District of Shush County, Khuzestan province, Iran.
Sheykh Hanush
Village
Sheykh Hanush is a village in Ben Moala Rural District, in the Central District of Shush County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 278, in 43 families.
Shush
- Categories: city of Iran and locality
- Location: Khuzestan, Iran, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.2004° or 32° 12′ 1″ northLongitude
48.249° or 48° 14′ 56″ eastPopulation
77,100Elevation
71 metres (233 feet)Open location code
8H4C662X+4HOpenStreetMap ID
node 32662667OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
114593Wikidata ID
Q4168823
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Akan to Uzbek—“Shush” goes by many names.
- Akan: “Shush”
- Arabic: “السوس”
- Arabic: “شوش (إيران)”
- Arabic: “شوش”
- Armenian: “Շուշ”
- Azerbaijani: “Şuş”
- Belarusian: “Шуш”
- Catalan: “Susa”
- Central Kurdish: “شۆش”
- Chinese: “Shush”
- Chinese: “舒什”
- Chinese: “舒西市”
- Czech: “Súsy”
- Dutch: “Shush”
- Dutch: “Susa”
- Esperanto: “Suzo”
- Estonian: “Shūsh”
- Estonian: “Šuš”
- Finnish: “Susa”
- French: “Shush”
- French: “Suse”
- German: “Schusch”
- German: “Susa”
- Hebrew: “שוש”
- Hindi: “शूश”
- Hungarian: “Sus”
- Irish: “Shush”
- Italian: “Shush”
- Italian: “Susa”
- Japanese: “シューシュ (イラン)”
- Japanese: “シューシュ”
- Japanese: “シューシュタル”
- Japanese: “スーサ”
- Kirghiz: “Шуш шаары”
- Kurdish: “Şuş”
- Lithuanian: “Šušas”
- Macedonian: “Шуш”
- Malagasy: “Shush”
- Mazanderani: “شوش (شهر)”
- Mazanderani: “شوش”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Shush”
- Newari: “शोश, इरान”
- Newari: “शोश”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shush”
- Norwegian: “Shush”
- Norwegian: “Susa”
- Persian: “شوش”
- Polish: “Suza”
- Portuguese: “Shush”
- Portuguese: “Susa”
- Romanian: “Shush”
- Russian: “Сузы”
- Russian: “Шуш”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Šuš”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Susa”
- Sindhi: “شوش، ايران”
- Sindhi: “شوش”
- Slovak: “Súsy”
- South Azerbaijani: “سوس”
- South Azerbaijani: “شوش”
- Spanish: “Shush”
- Spanish: “Susa”
- Swedish: “Shush”
- Swedish: “Susa”
- Tajik: “Шӯш”
- Turkish: “Şuş”
- Ukrainian: “Шуш”
- Uzbek: “Shush”
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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 “Shush”. Photo: adam jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.