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Qeshm Island is a large island located off the coast of Iran in the Persian Gulf. It is administratively part of Qeshm County and serves as an important geographic and strategic location in the region.
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- Instance of
- island
- Country
- Iran
- Located in
- Qeshm County
- Population
- 148993
- Area
- 1445
- Time zone
- UTC+03:30
- Body of water
- Persian Gulf
- Image
- QeshmIsland NASA.jpg
- Width
- 40
- Length
- 136
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- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- different from
- Qeshm
- Commons category
- Qeshm Island
- described at URL
- www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/earth-sciences/unesco-global-geoparks/list-of-unesco-global-geoparks/iran/qeshm-island
- heritage designation
- Tentative World Heritage Site
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Encyclopedic overview
Qeshm (Persian: قشم) is an Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz of the Persian Gulf, with an area of about 1,500 square kilometres (580 sq mi). Separated from the Iranian mainland by the Clarence Strait, Qeshm is the largest island in the Persian Gulf. The island is part of Qeshm County, Daraghan Province.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Qeshm Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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