Sacred Atlas

Where Is It Today?

Where Is Persia Today?

Persia is identified with Tell Hagmatana. See modern location, confidence level, Scripture references, coordinates, and source attribution.

Modern locationmodern identification under review
ConfidenceHigh
Scripture refs24

High confidence

Modern identification

Tell Hagmatana - modern identification under review

Coordinates34.8065, 48.5162
Kindregion
Claims3
Sources2

Scripture anchors

2 Chr 36:202 Chr 36:222 Chr 36:23Ezra 1:1Ezra 1:2Ezra 1:8Ezra 3:7Ezra 4:3Ezra 4:5Ezra 4:7Ezra 4:9Ezra 4:24Ezra 6:14Ezra 7:1Ezra 9:9Est 1:3Est 1:14Est 1:18Est 1:19Est 10:2Ezek 27:10Ezek 38:5Dan 8:20Dan 10:1

Why this place is in the atlas

Persia is a biblical place imported into Sacred Atlas from OpenBible.info with 24 Scripture references attached for review.

Claim ledger

foreignKeys[0] ancientId: ab9696f, urlSlug: persia, friendlyId: Persia OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data - CC-BY-4.0 - High
identifications[0].coordinates latitude: 34.8065, longitude: 48.516247, precision: region OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data - CC-BY-4.0; upstream ODbL-1.0 - High
scriptureReferences 2 Chr 36:20, 2 Chr 36:22, 2 Chr 36:23, Ezra 1:1 King James Version 1769 - Public-Domain - High