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Zanjan Province

Zanjan

Zanjan is the capital city of Zanjan province in . It has a lot of historical and ancient sites.
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  • Type: City with 387,000 residents
  • Description: city in Zanjan Province, Iran
  • Also known as: “Zanjān”, “Zanjan, Iran”, and “Zenjān”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mir Baha Oddin Historical Bridge and Khanom Mosque.

Photo: Farshid024, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Mosque
Photo: Maryam mirloo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a Shi'ite located on Imam Street, in the city of Zanjan, in the province of Zanjan, . Completed in 1904 CE, during the Qajar era, the mosque was built by Ismail and commissioned by Jamileh Khanom, daughter of Hossein Gholi Khan Afshar, one of the wealthy ladies in the late Qajar period.

Zanjan

Latitude
36.67° or 36° 40′ 12″ north
Longitude
48.4795° or 48° 28′ 46″ east
Population
387,000
Elevation
1,666 metres (5,466 feet)
IATA airport code
JWN
United Nations Location Code
IR ZAN
Open location code
8H8CMFCH+2R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 32828378
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
111453
Wiki­data ID
Q146699
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Zanjan” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Zanjan”
  • Albanian: “Zenxhan”
  • Arabic: “زنجان”
  • Armenian: “Զանջան”
  • Azerbaijani: “Zəncan”
  • Bashkir: “Зәнжан”
  • Basque: “Zanjan”
  • Belarusian: “Занджан”
  • Belarusian: “Зенджан”
  • Belarusian: “Зэнджан”
  • Bengali: “জানঝান”
  • Bengali: “যানযান”
  • Bulgarian: “Занджан”
  • Catalan: “Zanjan”
  • Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Zanjān”
  • Central Kurdish: “زەنجان”
  • Central Kurdish: “زەنگان”
  • Chinese: “贊詹”
  • Chinese: “赞詹”
  • Croatian: “Zandžan”
  • Czech: “Zandžán”
  • Danish: “Zanjan”
  • Dutch: “Zanjan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “زانجان”
  • Esperanto: “Zanĝan”
  • Esperanto: “Zanĝano”
  • Finnish: “Zanjan”
  • French: “Zandjan”
  • French: “Zanjan”
  • Georgian: “ზენჯანი”
  • German: “Zandschan”
  • Greek: “Ζανάν”
  • Greek: “Ζαντζάν”
  • Gujarati: “ઝાંજન”
  • Hebrew: “זנג’אן”
  • Hindi: “ज़ंजान”
  • Hindi: “ज़न्जान”
  • Hungarian: “Zandzsán”
  • Ido: “Zanjan”
  • Indonesian: “Zanjan”
  • Irish: “Zanjan”
  • Italian: “Zanjan”
  • Japanese: “ザンジャーン”
  • Kannada: “ಜಂಜನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಜ಼ಂಜಾನ”
  • Kannada: “ಝಾನ್ಜಾಂ”
  • Kazakh: “Зенджан”
  • Korean: “잔잔”
  • Kurdish: “Zencan”
  • Kurdish: “Zengan”
  • Latin: “Zengana”
  • Latvian: “Zandžāna”
  • Lithuanian: “Zandženas”
  • Lithuanian: “Zendžanas”
  • Macedonian: “Занџан”
  • Malagasy: “Zanjan, Iran”
  • Malagasy: “Zanjan”
  • Malay: “Zanjan”
  • Malayalam: “സഞ്ജാൻ, ഇറാൻ”
  • Malayalam: “സഞ്ജാൻ”
  • Maori: “Zanjan”
  • Marathi: “झनजन”
  • Marathi: “झॅन्जन”
  • Mazanderani: “زنجان”
  • Mingrelian: “ზანჯანი”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sandschaan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zanjan”
  • Norwegian: “Zanjan”
  • Ossetian: “Зенджан”
  • Persian: “خمسه”
  • Persian: “زنجان”
  • Persian: “زنگان”
  • Persian: “شهین”
  • Polish: “Zandżan”
  • Portuguese: “Zanjã”
  • Portuguese: “Zanjan”
  • Romanian: “Zanjan”
  • Russian: “Зенджан”
  • Scots: “Zanjan”
  • Serbian: “Занџан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zandžan”
  • Sinhala: “සන්ජන්”
  • Sinhala: “සැන්ජාන්”
  • Slovenian: “Zandžan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “زنجان”
  • Spanish: “Zanjan”
  • Spanish: “Zanyán”
  • Swedish: “Zäncan”
  • Swedish: “Zanjan”
  • Tajik: “Занҷон”
  • Tamil: “சாஞ்சன்”
  • Tamil: “சாஞ்சான்”
  • Tatar: “Зәнҗан”
  • Telugu: “జంజన్ ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “แซนจอน”
  • Turkish: “Zencan”
  • Ukrainian: “Зенджан”
  • Urdu: “زنجان”
  • Uzbek: “Zanjon”
  • Venetian: “Zanjan”
  • Vietnamese: “Zanjan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Zanjan, Iran”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Zanjan”
  • Wolof: “Zanjan, Iran”
  • Yue Chinese: “贊詹”

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