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 789,000 residents
  • Description: city in Zanjan Province, Iran
  • Also known as: “Zäncan”, “Zanjān”, “Zanjan, Iran”, “Zenjān”, “Ζαντζάν”, “Зэнджан”, “خمسه”, “زنگان”, “زەنجان”, “شهین”, “झनजन”, “যানযান”, “சாஞ்சான்”, “ಜಂಜನ್”, and “සන්ජන්”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Mir Baha Oddin Historical Bridge and Khanom Mosque.

Photo: Farshid024, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Mosque
Photo: Maryam mirloo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Zanjan

Latitude
36.67° or 36° 40′ 12″ north
Longitude
48.4795° or 48° 28′ 46″ east
Population
789,000
Elevation
1,666 metres (5,466 feet)
IATA airport code
JWN
UN/LOCODE
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”
  • Bengali: “জানঝান”
  • Bulgarian: “Занджан”
  • Catalan: “Zanjan”
  • Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Zanjān”
  • 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”
  • 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: “ಜ಼ಂಜಾನ”
  • Kannada: “ಝಾನ್ಜಾಂ”
  • Kashmiri: “زنجان”
  • 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: “झॅन्जन”
  • Mazanderani: “زنجان”
  • Mingrelian: “ზანჯანი”
  • Northern Frisian: “Zandschaan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zanjan”
  • Norwegian: “Zanjan”
  • Ossetian: “Зенджан”
  • Persian: “زنجان”
  • Polish: “Zandżan”
  • Portuguese: “Zanjã”
  • Portuguese: “Zanjan”
  • Romanian: “Zanjan”
  • Russian: “Зенджан”
  • Scots: “Zanjan”
  • Serbian: “Занџан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zandžan”
  • Sinhala: “සැන්ජාන්”
  • Slovenian: “Zandžan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “زنجان”
  • Spanish: “Zanjan”
  • Spanish: “Zanyán”
  • Swedish: “Zanjan”
  • Tajik: “Занҷон”
  • Tamil: “சாஞ்சன்”
  • Tatar: “Зәнҗан”
  • Telugu: “జంజన్ ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “แซนจอน”
  • Turkish: “Zencan”
  • Ukrainian: “Зенджан”
  • Urdu: “زنجان، ایران”
  • Uzbek: “Zanjon”
  • Venetian: “Zanjan”
  • Vietnamese: “Zanjan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Zanjan, Iran”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Zanjan”
  • Wolof: “Zanjan, Iran”
  • Yue Chinese: “贊詹”

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