Takestan
Takestan is a rural city in the Iranian province Qazvin. Most of its 75,000 or so people are Tats and make their livings through agricultural activities, including the production of many different grapes, peaches, nectarines, hay, wheat and cucumbers.Photo: Alborz Fallah, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 80,000 residents
- Description: city in Qazvin Province, Iran
- Also known as: “Seyādahan”, “Sīādehan”, “Sīahdehān”, “Siakh-Degen”, “Siakhdekhan”, and “Tākistān”
Takestan
- Categories: city of Iran and locality
- Location: Qazvin Province, Iran, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.0726° or 36° 4′ 21″ northLongitude
49.6937° or 49° 41′ 37″ eastPopulation
80,000Elevation
1,265 metres (4,150 feet)Open location code
8H8F3MFV+2FOpenStreetMap ID
node 666772583OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
113491Wikidata ID
Q655078
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Takestan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تاكستان”
- Arabic: “تاکستان”
- Armenian: “Թաքեստան”
- Azerbaijani: “Takistan”
- Cebuano: “Tākestān”
- Central Kurdish: “تاکستان”
- Chinese: “Takestan”
- Chinese: “塔凱斯坦”
- Dutch: “Takestan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تاكستان”
- French: “Takestan”
- German: “Takestan”
- Hebrew: “תאכסתאן”
- Hindi: “ताकिस्तान”
- Hungarian: “Takesztán”
- Irish: “Takestan”
- Italian: “Takestan”
- Japanese: “ターケスターン”
- Korean: “타케스탄”
- Kurdish: “Takestan”
- Kurdish: “Takistan”
- Malagasy: “Takestan”
- Mazanderani: “تاکستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Takestan”
- Persian: “تاكستان”
- Persian: “تاکستان”
- Persian: “سیاه دهن”
- Polish: “Takestan”
- Romanian: “Takestan”
- Russian: “Такестан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Takestan”
- South Azerbaijani: “تاکستان”
- South Azerbaijani: “تاکیستان”
- Swedish: “Tākestān”
- Tajik: “Токистон”
- Turkish: “Takistan”
- Urdu: “تاکستان”
- Western Panjabi: “تاکستان”
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