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Hamadan
City in Hamadan province, Iran

Hamadan

Hamadan is a mountainous city in western Iran.

Plan a trip to Hamadan→From Tehran

It is located in the Central District of Hamadan County in Hamadan province, serving as the capital of the province, county, and district. As of the 2016 Iranian census, it had a population of 554,406 people in 174,731 households.

Get in

Getting to Hamadan

There is a daily flight from Tehran.

  1. 01
    Hamadan International Airport

    Hamedan has a daily train service from Mashad via the capital Tehran.

  2. 02
    Hamadan
See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Ali Sadr Cave
  2. 02
    Avicenna's Mausoleum

    Tomb of the Persian polymath Avicenna (Abu Ali Sina), includes a museum.

  3. 03
    Tomb of Baba Taher
  4. 04
    Alavian Cupola
  5. 05
    Ganjnameh
  6. 06
    Tomb of Esther and Mordechai

    Believed to house the remains of the biblical Queen Esther and her uncle Mordechai, it is the most important pilgrimage site for Jews in the country.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Amir Pashaei (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons.