Yazd
Yazd is a province in Central Iran; Yazd, an ancient oasis city that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the capital.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Yazd is a desert city in central Iran and the capital of the Yazd province. 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.
Yazd
- Type: State with 1,140,000 residents
- Description: province of Iran
- Also known as: “Farmāndārī-ye Mostaqell-e Yazd”, “Ostān-e Yazd”, “Yazd province”, and “Yazd Province”
- Neighbors: Fars, Isfahan, and Kerman
- Categories: province of Iran and locality
- Location: Central Iran, Iran, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude of center
32.0406° or 32° 2′ 26″ northLongitude of center
54.6657° or 54° 39′ 57″ eastPopulation
1,140,000Elevation
1,251 metres (4,104 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 481109416OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Yazd” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محافظة يزد”
- Arabic: “محافظة یزد”
- Arabic: “يزد”
- Armenian: “Յազդի նահանգ”
- Asturian: “Provincia de Yazd”
- Avaric: “Йазд (остан)”
- Avaric: “Йазд”
- Azerbaijani: “Yəzd ostanı”
- Azerbaijani: “Yəzd”
- Basque: “Yazd”
- Belarusian: “Езд”
- Belarusian: “Язд”
- Bengali: “ইয়াজদ প্রদেশ”
- Bengali: “ইয়াযদ প্রদেশ”
- Bulgarian: “Язд (остан)”
- Bulgarian: “Язд”
- Catalan: “Província de Yazd”
- Cebuano: “Yazd”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای ھێز”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای یەزد”
- Chechen: “Йезд (остан)”
- Chechen: “Йезд”
- Chinese: “Yazd Séng”
- Chinese: “亚兹德省”
- Chinese: “亞茲德省”
- Crimean Tatar: “Yezd ostanı”
- Croatian: “Jazd”
- Croatian: “Jazdska pokrajina”
- Czech: “Jazd”
- Czech: “Provincie Jazd”
- Danish: “Yazd”
- Dimli (individual language): “Yezd”
- Dutch: “Yazd”
- Egyptian Arabic: “يزد”
- Esperanto: “Jazd”
- Esperanto: “Jazdo”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Jazd”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Jazdo”
- Estonian: “Yazdi provints”
- Finnish: “Yazd”
- French: “Province de Yazd”
- French: “Yazd”
- Georgian: “იაზდი”
- Georgian: “იეზდის ოსტანი”
- German: “Yazd”
- Gilaki: “اوستان یزد”
- Gilaki: “یزد ٚ اۊستان”
- Greek: “Επαρχία Γιαζντ”
- Hebrew: “יזד”
- Hebrew: “פרובינציית יזד”
- Hindi: “यज़्द प्रांत”
- Hindi: “यज़्द”
- Hungarian: “Jazd tartomány”
- Hungarian: “Jazd”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Yazd”
- Italian: “provincia di Yazd”
- Italian: “Provincia di Yazd”
- Italian: “Yazd”
- Japanese: “ヤズド”
- Japanese: “ヤズド州”
- Korean: “야즈드주”
- Kurdish: “Parêzgeha Yezd”
- Kurdish: “Yezd”
- Kurdish: “یەزد”
- Latin: “Iasd”
- Latin: “provincia Iasdensis”
- Latvian: “Jezda”
- Latvian: “Jezdas ostāns”
- Lithuanian: “Jezdo provincija”
- Macedonian: “Јазд”
- Malagasy: “Faritanin‘ i Yazd”
- Malagasy: “Faritanin’ i Yazd”
- Malay: “Wilayah Yazd”
- Malay: “Yazd”
- Malayalam: “യാസ്ദ് പ്രവിശ്യ”
- Maltese: “Provinċja ta‘ Yazd”
- Maori: “Harata Porowini”
- Maori: “Yazd Porowini”
- Marathi: “याज प्रांत”
- Marathi: “याझ्द प्रांत”
- Mazanderani: “یزد اوستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Yazd Séng”
- Newari: “याज्द् प्रान्त”
- Northern Luri: “آستوٙن یأزد”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yazd”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yazd-provinsen”
- Norwegian: “Yazd”
- Ossetian: “Йезд (остан)”
- Ossetian: “Йезд”
- Panjabi: “ਯਜ਼ਦ ਸੂਬਾ”
- Persian: “اُستانِ يَزد”
- Persian: “استان یزد”
- Persian: “فَرماندارئ مُستَقِلِّ يَزد”
- Persian: “یزد”
- Polish: “Jazd”
- Portuguese: “Iazde”
- Portuguese: “Província de yazd”
- Portuguese: “Yazd”
- Pushto: “د یزد ولایت”
- Pushto: “يزد ولايت”
- Russian: “Йезд”
- Scots: “Yazd Province”
- Serbian: “Pokrajina Jazd”
- Serbian: “Покрајина Јазд”
- Serbian: “استان یزد”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jazdska pokrajina”
- Slovenian: “Jazd”
- Slovenian: “Provinca Jazd”
- Slovenian: “Yazd”
- South Azerbaijani: “یزد اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Yazd”
- Spanish: “Yazd”
- Swedish: “Yazd”
- Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Yazd”
- Tajik: “Ustoni Jazd”
- Tajik: “Устони Язд”
- Tamil: “யாசுது மாகாணம்”
- Tatar: “Йәзд (устан)”
- Tatar: “Йәзд”
- Thai: “จังหวัดแยซด์”
- Turkish: “Yezd anlam ayrımı”
- Turkish: “Yezd Eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Yezd”
- Ukrainian: “Єзд”
- Ukrainian: “Йєзд”
- Urdu: “صوبہ یزد”
- Urdu: “یزد علاقہ”
- Uzbek: “Yazd viloyati”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Yazd”
- Vietnamese: “Yazd”
- Waray (Philippines): “Yazd”
- Welsh: “Talaith Yazd”
- Western Panjabi: “یزد”
- Wu Chinese: “亚兹德省”
- Yue Chinese: “亞茲德省”
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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 “Yazd”. Photo: Adam Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.