Besh Qardash, on the outskirts of Bojnourd

Bojnurd (Persian: بجنورد) is the capital city of North Khorasan province, Iran. It is about 701 km from Tehran. It had an estimated population of 181,648 in 2005.^[1] It is also spelled Bojnūrd, Bujnūrd, or Bujnurd.^[2] Persian is an Indo-European language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. ... Chicago from the air. ... North Khorasan (in Persian: خراسان شمالی) is a province located in northeastern Iran. ... Tehran (IPA: ; Persian: تهران, also transliterated as Teheran or Tehrān), population 7,160,094 (metropolitan: 14,000,000[citation needed]), and a land area of 658 square kilometers, is the capital city of Iran and the center of Tehran Province. ...

Bojnurd is located in the plains and enjoys a mild, mountainous weather. This city was originally called "Bijan Gerd", with gerd meaning city and bojnurd meaning Bijans city. Majority of the inhabitants in Bojnourd are ethnic Kurds, speaking in the Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish language. In geography, a plain is a large area of land with relatively low relief. ... Kurds are one of the Iranian peoples and speak Kurdish, a north-Western Iranian language related to Persian. ... Kurmanji (Kurdish: kurmancî or kirmancî) is the major Kurdish dialect spoken in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, the ex-Soviet states and by Kurds living in Central Asia. ... The Kurdish language is an Iranian language spoken in the region called Kurdistan, including Kurdish populations in parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. ...

The ancient city was situated on a hill northwest of the present city of Bojnurd, known as Sareban Mahaleh.

Maneh is a small sector in the northwest of Bojnurd city. The most important village is Shirindarre which is a tourist area and in which rice is produced.

References

1. ^ Population Estimates For Cities in Iran (2005).
2. ^ Maps, Weather, and Airports for Bojnurd, Iran.

External links

• Bojnurd entries in the Encyclopedia Iranica