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Sistan & Baluchestan

Zahedan

Zahedan is the capital of Baluchistan province in . It is border city connecting Iran with Pakistan and if one is not going through , they'll have to pass through Zahedan on the overland route from Istanbul to New Delhi.
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  • Type: City with 588,000 residents
  • Description: city in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran
  • Also known as: “Dowzdāb”, “Duzdāb”, “Duzdāp”, “Zāhedān”, “Zāhedān-e (Yek)”, and “Zaidān”
Photo: Asiatak, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Jameh Mosque of Makki and Zahedan Railway Station.

Mosque
Photo: Hessamabedini, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , officially the Grand Makki Mosque of Zahedan, also known as the Makki Mosque, is one of the world's largest Hanafi , and the largest Sunni Friday mosque in , located in the center of Zahedan, the capital of the Sistan and Baluchestan province.

Railway station
Photo: Drsaeed90, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is located in Zahedan, . It serves as the terminus for the Quetta–Taftan Railway Line and -Zahedan railway. It also serves as the break of gauge between Pakistan Railways 1,676 mm broad gauge and Islamic Republic of Iran Railways 1,435 mm standard gauge.

Zahedan

Latitude
29.4929° or 29° 29′ 34″ north
Longitude
60.8503° or 60° 51′ 1″ east
Population
588,000
Elevation
1,380 metres (4,528 feet)
IATA airport code
ZAH
United Nations Location Code
IR ZAH
Open location code
7JX2FVV2+54
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26604766
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1159301
Wiki­data ID
Q140561
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Zahedan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “زاهدان”
  • Armenian: “Զահեդան”
  • Azerbaijani: “Zahidan”
  • Basque: “Zahedan”
  • Belarusian: “Захедан”
  • Bengali: “জহেদন”
  • Brahui: “Záhedán”
  • Bulgarian: “Захедан”
  • Catalan: “Zahedan”
  • Cebuano: “Zahedan”
  • Central Kurdish: “زاھیدان”
  • Chinese: “Zahedan”
  • Chinese: “扎黑丹”
  • Croatian: “Zahedan”
  • Czech: “Záhedán”
  • Danish: “Zahedan”
  • Dutch: “Zahedan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “زاهدان”
  • Esperanto: “Zahedano”
  • Finnish: “Zahedan”
  • French: “Zahedan”
  • Georgian: “ზაჰედანი”
  • German: “Zahedan”
  • Greek: “Ζαχεντάν”
  • Gujarati: “ઝાહેદન”
  • Hebrew: “זאהדאן”
  • Hindi: “ज़ाहिदान”
  • Hindi: “ज़ाहेदान”
  • Hungarian: “Záhedán”
  • Indonesian: “Zahedan”
  • Irish: “Zahedan”
  • Italian: “Zahedan”
  • Japanese: “ザーヘダーン”
  • Kannada: “ಜಹೆದಾನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಝಹೀದನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Захедан”
  • Korean: “자헤단”
  • Kurdish: “Zahedan”
  • Kurdish: “Zahidan”
  • Latvian: “Zahedana”
  • Latvian: “Zāhedāna”
  • Lithuanian: “Zahedanas”
  • Malagasy: “Zahedan”
  • Malay: “Zahedan”
  • Maori: “Haherane”
  • Maori: “Zahedan”
  • Marathi: “झैदान”
  • Mazanderani: “زاهدان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Zahedan”
  • Mingrelian: “ზაჰედანი”
  • Northern Sami: “Zahedan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zahedan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zehedan”
  • Norwegian: “Zahedan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Zahedan”
  • Ossetian: “Захедан”
  • Persian: “زاهدان”
  • Polish: “Zahedan”
  • Portuguese: “Zaedã”
  • Portuguese: “Zahedan”
  • Pushto: “زاهدان”
  • Romanian: “Zahedan”
  • Russian: “Захедан”
  • Saraiki: “زاہدان”
  • Scots: “Zahedan”
  • Serbian: “Захедан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zahedan”
  • Sindhi: “زاھدان”
  • Sinhala: “සහෙඩන්”
  • Sinhala: “සහෙඩාන්”
  • South Azerbaijani: “زاهیدان”
  • Spanish: “Zahedan”
  • Spanish: “Zahedán”
  • Swedish: “Zahedan”
  • Tajik: “Зоҳидон”
  • Tamil: “சாகிதன்”
  • Tamil: “சாகிதான்”
  • Tatar: “Заһидан”
  • Telugu: “జహేదాన్”
  • Telugu: “జాహేదన్”
  • Thai: “ซอเฮดอน”
  • Thai: “ซาฮีดาน”
  • Turkish: “Zahidan”
  • Ukrainian: “Захедан”
  • Urdu: “زاہدان”
  • Uzbek: “Zohidon”
  • Venetian: “Zahedan”
  • Vietnamese: “Zahedan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Zahedan”
  • Western Panjabi: “زاہدان”
  • Wolof: “Zahedan”
  • Wu Chinese: “扎黑丹”
  • Yue Chinese: “扎黑丹”

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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 “Zahedan”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.