Gulistan Explained

Gulistan, Golestan or Golastan (Persian: گلستان|link=no) means "flower land" in Persian language (gol meaning "flower", and -stan or meaning "land").

It may refer to:

Places

Iran

"Golestan" most often refers to:

• Golestan province in northeast Iran.
• Golestan, Tehran Province, a city in Tehran Province

Alborz Province

• Gulistan, Alborz, a village in Alborz Province

Ardabil Province

• Golestan, Ardabil, a village in Nir County
• Golestan-e Bala, a village in Khalkhal County
• Golestan-e Pain, a village in Khalkhal County

Bushehr Province

• Golestan, Bushehr, a village in Jam County
• Golestan, Dashti, a village in Dashti County

East Azerbaijan Province

• Golestan-e Olya, a village in Maragheh County
• Golestan-e Sofla, a village in Maragheh County
• Golestan Park, a park in Tabriz, Iran

Fars Province

• Golestan, Fars, a village in Shiraz County
• Shahrak-e Golestan, a village in Shiraz County

Gilan Province

• Golestan, Gilan, a village in Lahijan County
• Golestan Sara, a village in Siahkal County

Golestan Province

• Golestan National Park
• Golestan, Golestan, a village in Golestan Province

Hormozgan Province

• Golestan, Hormozgan, a village in Hormozgan Province

Isfahan Province

• Golestan-e Mehdi, a village in Ardestan County
• Golestan-e Shahid Rejai, a village in Ardestan County
• Golastan, Isfahan, a village in Isfahan County
• Golestan, Nain, a village in Nain County
• Golestan Rural District (Isfahan Province), in Falavarjan County

Kerman Province

• Golestan, Anar, a village in Anar County
• Golestan, Arzuiyeh, a village in Arzuiyeh County
• Golestan, Kahnuj, a village in Kahnuj County
• Golestan, Sirjan, a village in Sirjan County
• Golestan District (Sirjan County), an administrative division of Sirjan County
• Golestan Rural District (Sirjan County), an administrative division of Sirjan County

Khuzestan Province

• Golestan, Masjed Soleyman, a village in Khuzestan Province

Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province

• Golestan-e Emamzadeh Jafar, a village in Gachsaran County

Lorestan Province

• Golestan, Lorestan, a village in Lorestan Province
• Golestan, alternate name of Golestanak, Lorestan

Mazandaran Province

• Golestan Mahalleh, a village in Tonekabon County

North Khorasan Province

• Golestan Rural District (North Khorasan Province)

Qom Province

• Golestan, Qom, a village in Qom Province

Razavi Khorasan Province

• Golestan, Firuzeh, a village in Firuzeh County
• Golestan, Mahvelat, a village in Mahvelat County

Semnan Province

• Golestan, Semnan, a village in Semnan Province, Iran

South Khorasan Province

• Golestan, South Khorasan, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran

Tehran Province

• Golestan, Tehran Province, a suburban city of Tehran
• Golestan Palace in Tehran
• Golestan District (Baharestan County), an administrative subdivision of Tehran Province

Zanjan Province

• Golestan, Zanjan, a village in Zanjan County
• Golestan, Tarom, a village in Tarom County

Armenia and Azerbaijan

• Gulistan, former name of Nor Aznaberd, Armenia
• Gülüstan, Goranboy, a village in the Shahumian region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan
• Gülüstan, Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan

Pakistan

• Gulistan, Balochistan, located in Qilla Abdullah District, Balochistan
• Gulistan, Punjab, village in Punjab
• Gulistan Tehsil
• Gulistan-e-Johar, a neighbourhood of Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town in Karachi, Sindh
• Gulistan-e-Bahar, a neighbourhood of Orangi Town in Karachi, Sindh
• Gulistan-e-Hadeed, a neighbourhood of Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town in Karachi, Sindh

Tajikistan

• Guliston, Rudaki District, a village near Dushanbe
• Guliston, Sughd, a city in Sughd Region
• Guliston, Shahriston District, a village in Sughd Region
• Guliston, Vahdat, a part of the city Vahdat

Other places

• Gulistan District in Farah Province, Afghanistan
• Gulistan, Dhaka, in Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Gulistan underpass in Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Gulistan, Baramulla, in Jammu and Kashmir, India
• Gulistan Terrace & Gulistan Cottages, Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland
• Guliston, Uzbekistan

Other uses

• Gulistan, a work by the Persian poet Saadi
• Gulistān — Nocturne for Piano, a piano piece by English composer Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
• Gulistan rug, created by Karagheusian Rug Mill
• Treaty of Gulistan (1813), between imperial Russia and Qajarid Persia signed at Gulistan, Nagorno-Karabakh
• Gülistan Turan (born 1997), Turkish female Muay Thai practitioner
• , one of Melikdoms of Karabakh
• Guliston, an Uzbek-language magazine

See also

• Gulshan (disambiguation)