Shiraz
Shiraz is the capital city of the Fars province and a treasure trove of Persian culture. It was the capital of Iran during the Zand dynasty's era, and is the celebrated birthplace of the great Persian poets Hafiz and Saadi.Photo: آرش, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Shah Cheragh Holy Shrine
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Shah Cheragh is a 12th century funerary monument and religious complex located in Shiraz, Iran.
South Vakil Bazaar
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
29°36′53.93″N 52°32′48.47″E / 29.6149806°N 52.5467972°E Vakil Bazaar is a bazaar of Shiraz, Iran, located in the center of the city.
Pars Museum
Photo: Hooman Mallahzadeh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
29°36′57.63″N 52°32′42″E / 29.6160083°N 52.54500°E Pars Museum of Shiraz The Pars Museum is a museum in Shiraz, Fars Province, southern Iran.
Shiraz
- Type: City with 1,570,000 residents
- Description: city in Fars Province, Iran
- Categories: city of Iran and locality
- Location: Shiraz County, Fars, Central Iran, Iran, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
29.606° or 29° 36' 22" northLongitude
52.5378° or 52° 32' 16" eastPopulation
1,570,000Elevation
1,545 metres (5,069 feet)IATA airport code
SYZUnited Nations Location Code
IR SYZOpen Location Code
7HXJJG4Q+C4OpenStreetMap ID
node 26082452OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
115019Wikidata ID
Q6397066Shiraz Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afar: Shiraz
- Afrikaans: Sjiraz
- Albanian: Shirazi
- Arabic: Shiraz, Iran
- Arabic: شيراز
- Armenian: Շիրազ
- Asturian: Shiraz
- Azerbaijani: Şiraz
- Basque: Xiraz
- Belarusian: Шыраз
- Bengali: শিরাজ
- Bosnian: Širaz
- Breton: Shiraz
- Bulgarian: Шираз
- Catalan: Xiraz
- Cebuano: Shiraz
- Central Kurdish: شیراز
- Chechen: Шираз
- Chinese: 史拉子
- Chinese: 失剌思
- Chinese: 西菈子
- Chinese: 設拉子
- Chinese: 设拉子
- Crimean Tatar: Şiraz
- Croatian: Širaz
- Czech: Šíráz
- Danish: Shiraz
- Dimli (individual language): Şiraz
- Dutch: Shiraz
- Egyptian Arabic: شيراز
- Erzya: Шираз ош
- Esperanto: Ŝirazo
- Estonian: Shīrāz
- Finnish: Šīrāz
- French: Chiraz
- French: Shiraz
- Galician: Xiraz
- Galician: شیراز
- Georgian: შირაზი
- German: Schiras
- Gilaki: شیراز
- Greek: Σιράζ
- Gujarati: શિરાઝ
- Hausa: Shiraz
- Hebrew: שיראז
- Hindi: शीराज
- Hindi: शीराज़
- Hindi: शीराझ्
- Hungarian: Siráz
- Icelandic: Shiraz
- Indonesian: Shiraz
- Interlingua: Shiraz
- Irish: Shiraz
- Italian: Shiraz
- Japanese: シーラーズ
- Kalaallisut: Shiraz
- Kannada: ಶಿರಾಜ್
- Kannada: ಶೀರಾಝ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Shiraz
- Kazakh: Шираз
- Kirghiz: Шираз
- Korean: 시라즈
- Kurdish: Şîraz
- Latin: Schirasium
- Latin: Sirasium
- Latvian: Šīrāza
- Literary Chinese: 失剌思
- Lithuanian: Širazas
- Macedonian: Шираз
- Malagasy: Shiraz
- Malay: Shiraz
- Malayalam: ഷിറാസ്
- Maltese: Shiraz
- Maltese: Xiraz
- Maori: Shiraz
- Marathi: शिराझ
- Mazanderani: شیراز
- Mingrelian: შირაზი
- Moksha: Шираз
- Mongolian: Шираз
- Moroccan Arabic: شيراز
- Northern Luri: شیراز
- Northern Sami: Širaz
- Norwegian: Shiraz
- Norwegian Bokmål: Shiraz
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Shiraz
- Ossetian: Шираз
- Panjabi: ਸ਼ਿਰਾਜ਼
- Persian: Shīrāz
- Persian: تیرازیس
- Persian: شهر راز
- Persian: شهر گل و بلبل
- Persian: شیراز
- Persian: کلانشهر شیراز
- Polish: Sziraz
- Portuguese: Chiraz
- Portuguese: Shiraz
- Portuguese: Xiraz
- Pushto: شیراز
- Quechua: Shiraz
- Quechua: Širâz
- Romanian: Shiraz
- Russian: Шираз
- Sardinian: Shiraz
- Scots: Shiraz
- Serbian: Шираз
- Serbo-Croatian: Širaz
- Silesian: Sziraz
- Sindhi: شيراز
- Sinhala: ශිරාස්
- Slovak: Širáz
- Slovenian: Širaz
- South Azerbaijani: شیراز
- Spanish: Shiraz
- Spanish: ciudad de la poesia
- Spanish: ciudad de la poesía
- Spanish: ciudad de las luciernagas
- Spanish: ciudad de las luciérnagas
- Spanish: ciudad de las rosas
- Spanish: ciudad del vino
- Spanish: Širâz
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⵛⵉⵔⴰⵣ
- Swahili: Shiraz
- Swedish: Shiraz
- Swiss German: Schiras
- Tachelhit: Ciraz
- Tajik: Шероз
- Tamil: சிராசு
- Tamil: சீராசு
- Tatar: Шираз
- Telugu: షిరాజ్
- Thai: ชีรอซ
- Thai: ชีราซ
- Tosk Albanian: Schiras
- Turkish: Şiraz
- Turkmen: Şiraz
- Udmurt: Шираз
- Uighur: شىراز
- Ukrainian: Шираз
- Ukrainian: Шіраз (Іран)
- Urdu: شیراز
- Uzbek: Sheroz
- Venetian: Shiraz
- Vietnamese: Shiraz
- Võro: Širaz
- Waray (Philippines): Shiraz, Iran
- Welsh: Shiraz
- Western Panjabi: شیراز
- Wolof: Shiraz
- Wu Chinese: 设拉子
- Yue Chinese: 設拉子
- Chimaz
- Syiraz
Other Places Named Shiraz
Localities in the Area
- شاهزاده قاسمNeighborhood
- سر دزکNeighborhood
- گلکوبNeighborhood
- لب آبNeighborhood
- Darvazeye KazerounNeighborhood
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Shiraz. Photo: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0.