جلفا Jolfa, East Azerbaijan, Iran
Location of Jolfa (North of Tabriz exactly in Iran-Azerbaijan border in Iran
Area
- City	km²
Population ()
- City	56,000
Time zone	Tehran Time Zone (UTC+3:30)

This article is about a city in northwest Iran. For Jolfa in isfahan see Jolfa district.

Jolfa is a small town located in North of Tabriz, in the province of East Azarbaijan in Iran and is home to approximately 56,000 people living on 35 kilometers of urban and rural areas. Some 18,000 students study in the regional schools and 450 students attend the universities from all over the country. The employed population of the city work in service, administrative, transport, customs, banks and insurance as well as in other trade and urban activities. The majority of the rural population are farmers. With the increasing level of education and the popularity of mechanical agriculture, there are increasing numbers of young, qualified people entering the work force. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x407, 391 KB) Summary St. ... Image File history File links Jolfa. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... Jolfa district is a district in the southwest of Isfahan city, built in the Safavid period to house Armenians migrating to the city. ... Tabriz City Hall, built in 1934, by Arfaol molk, with the aid of German engineers. ... East Azarbaijan province enjoys some of Irans most favorable climatic conditions. ...

Jolfa is one of the most important border towns of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Customs facilities in the city and theCaucasus-Jolfa railway have been designed to accommodate custom duties, warehousing, cargo releasing and transportation of three million tons of commodities per year. Prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, all imports and exports of Iran with the USSR, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia were primarily carried out through Jolfa. The Ethnolinguistic patchwork of the modern Caucasus - CIA map Russia Georgia Azerbaijan (Azer. ... Regions of Europe as delineated by the United Nations (UN definition of Eastern Europe marked salmon):  Northern Europe  Western Europe  Eastern Europe  Southern Europe Pre-1989 division between the West (grey) and Eastern Bloc (orange) superimposed on current national boundaries: Russia (dark orange), other countries of the former USSR (medium... For other uses, see Scandinavia (disambiguation). ...

During the year 1990 and 1991 the volume of cargo exchanges through the Jolfa border amounted to 2.69 and 2.37 million tons respectively, forming over 10 percent of the country's imports. Upon closing the Caucasus-Jolfa railway due to the dispute over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh between Armenia and Azarbaijan, cargo exchnages through this border dropped sharply. However, in recent years, an annual average of 150,000 tons of cargo have been cleared from Jolfa border to Turkey, Azarbaijan republic, and Nakhichevan, Armenia and vice versa through the main roads of Jolfa. This article is about the year. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Ethnolinguistic patchwork of the modern Caucasus - CIA map Russia Georgia Azerbaijan (Azer. ... Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijani: Dağlıq Qarabağ or Yuxarı Qarabağ, literally mountainous black garden or upper black garden; Russian: Нагорный Карабах, translit. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Iranian Azerbaijan. ... Momine Khatun Mausoleum in Nakhichevan. ...

Upon the cessation of hostilities and continuation of settlement talks, as well as with the opening of the Iran Caucasus railway, it is expected that the border town of Jolfa will revive its past significance to be not only one of the most important cargo exchange borders among Iran, the Caucasus and Russia, but will also become one of the greatest cargo transit routes from Persian Gulf and Central Asia to Caucasus, Russia and vice versa. The Ethnolinguistic patchwork of the modern Caucasus - CIA map Russia Georgia Azerbaijan (Azer. ... Map of Central Asia showing three sets of possible boundaries for the region Central Asia located as a region of the world Central Asia is a vast landlocked region of Asia. ...

Monuments

• St Stepanous Cathedral
• Jolfa damaged water mill (a beautiful water fall)