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Yazd

Yazd

Yazd is a desert city in central and the capital of the . It is an ancient city dating back to the Sassanian period. It is nicknamed "the City of Windcatchers" in Persian, and in 2017, this city of 530,000 people was listed by as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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  • Type: City with 486,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Yazd Province, Iran
  • Also known as: “Yezd”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dowlatabad Garden and Zoroastrian Fire Temple.

Photo: Parsglider, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a historical garden in Yazd, . Its 33.8 meters tall windcatcher is the tallest adobe-made windcatcher in the world. It was listed as a UNESCO world heritage site in 2011, as part of the Persian gardens.

Place of worship
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Fire Temple of Yazd, also known as Yazd Atash Behram, is a in Yazd, , . It enshrines the Atash Behram, meaning "Victorious Fire", dated to 470 AD.

Photo: HaDi, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Akramabad and Kheyrabad.

Village
is a village in Rural District of District, Yazd County, province, , serving as capital of both the district and the rural district.

Suburb
is a neighborhood in the city of Yazd in the Central District of Yazd County, province, . As a village, it was the capital of Fajr Rural District until its capital was transferred to the village of .

Yazd

Latitude
31.9052° or 31° 54′ 19″ north
Longitude
54.3701° or 54° 22′ 12″ east
Population
486,000
Elevation
1,216 metres (3,990 feet)
IATA airport code
AZD
United Nations Location Code
IR AZD
Open location code
8H3PW94C+32
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1487757399
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
111822
Wiki­data ID
Q182394
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Yazd” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “يازد”
  • Arabic: “يزد”
  • Armenian: “Յազդ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yəzd”
  • Bashkir: “Йәзд”
  • Basque: “Yazd”
  • Belarusian: “Езд”
  • Belarusian: “Язд”
  • Bengali: “ইয়াজ্দ্”
  • Bengali: “ইয়াদ”
  • Bengali: “ইয়াযদ”
  • Breton: “Yazd”
  • Bulgarian: “Язд”
  • Catalan: “Iazd”
  • Catalan: “Yadz”
  • Catalan: “Yazd”
  • Catalan: “Yedz”
  • Catalan: “Yezd”
  • Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Yazd”
  • Central Kurdish: “یەزد”
  • Chinese: “亚兹德”
  • Chinese: “亞茲德”
  • Croatian: “Jazd”
  • Czech: “Jazd”
  • Danish: “Yazd”
  • Dutch: “Yazd”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “يزد”
  • Esperanto: “Jazdo”
  • Esperanto: “Yazd”
  • Estonian: “Yazd”
  • Estonian: “Yezd”
  • Finnish: “Yazd”
  • French: “Yazd”
  • French: “Yezd”
  • Galician: “Yazd”
  • Georgian: “იაზდი”
  • Georgian: “იეზდი”
  • German: “Jasd”
  • German: “Yasd”
  • German: “Yasdi”
  • German: “Yazd”
  • German: “Yezd”
  • Greek: “Γιαζντ”
  • Gujarati: “યાઝ્ડ”
  • Hebrew: “יזד”
  • Hindi: “यज़्द”
  • Hungarian: “Jazd”
  • Indonesian: “Yazd”
  • Irish: “Yazd”
  • Italian: “Issatis”
  • Italian: “Yazd”
  • Japanese: “ヤズド”
  • Kannada: “ಯಝ್ಡ್”
  • Kazakh: “Ýezd”
  • Kazakh: “Йезд”
  • Kazakh: “Язд”
  • Kazakh: “يەزد”
  • Korean: “야즈드”
  • Kurdish: “Yezd”
  • Kurdish: “یەزد”
  • Ladino: “Yazd”
  • Latin: “Iasd”
  • Latin: “Iasdi”
  • Latvian: “Jezda”
  • Lithuanian: “Jezdas”
  • Macedonian: “Јазд”
  • Macedonian: “Језд”
  • Malagasy: “Yazd”
  • Malay: “Yazd”
  • Malayalam: “യാസ്ദ്”
  • Maltese: “Yazd”
  • Maltese: “Yezd”
  • Maori: “Harata”
  • Maori: “Yazd”
  • Marathi: “यझ्ड”
  • Marathi: “याझद”
  • Mazanderani: “یزد”
  • Mingrelian: “იაზდი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yazd”
  • Norwegian: “Yazd”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Yazd”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ࡉࡀࡆࡃ”
  • Ossetian: “Йезд”
  • Persian: “Yazd”
  • Persian: “شهر بادگیرها”
  • Persian: “شهر دوچرخه‌ها”
  • Persian: “شهر یزد”
  • Persian: “يزد”
  • Persian: “یزد”
  • Polish: “Jazd”
  • Portuguese: “Iazde”
  • Portuguese: “Yazd”
  • Romanian: “Yazd”
  • Russian: “Йезд”
  • Russian: “Язд”
  • Scots: “Yazd”
  • Serbian: “Јазд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jazd”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jezd”
  • Sinhala: “යස්ඩ්”
  • Slovak: “Jazd”
  • Slovak: “Jezd”
  • Slovak: “Katha”
  • Slovenian: “Jazd”
  • Slovenian: “Yazd”
  • South Azerbaijani: “یزد”
  • Spanish: “Yazd”
  • Spanish: “Yezd”
  • Swedish: “Yazd”
  • Swedish: “Yezd”
  • Swiss German: “Yasd”
  • Tagalog: “Yazd”
  • Tajik: “Jazd”
  • Tajik: “Йазд”
  • Tajik: “Язд”
  • Tamil: “யாசுது”
  • Tamil: “யாஸ்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Йәзд”
  • Tatar: “Язд”
  • Telugu: “యజ్ద్”
  • Thai: “แยซด์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Yasd”
  • Turkish: “Yezd”
  • Uighur: “يەزد”
  • Ukrainian: “Єзд”
  • Ukrainian: “Йєзд”
  • Ukrainian: “Язд”
  • Urdu: “یزد”
  • Uzbek: “Yazd”
  • Venetian: “Yazd”
  • Vietnamese: “Yazd”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yazd”
  • Welsh: “Yazd”
  • Wolof: “Yazd”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚兹德”

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