Mahabad
Mahabad is a city in the Central District of Mahabad County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. Due to its historic significance to Kurdish nationalism, Mahabad is seen as the capital of Iranian Kurdistan by the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization.
Photo: Simko, Public domain.
Photo: Simko, Public domain.- Type: Town with 168,000 residents
- Description: city in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
- Also known as: “Mahabad şəhəri”, “Mahabadas”, “MEHABAD”, “Mehābād”, “Mehebad”, “Sablach”, “Sablakh”, “Sablax”, “Sāūjbulāgh”, “Savuçbulak”, “Sawadj-bulak”, “Sawdjbulak”, “Соудж-Булаг”, “Соуджбулак”, “سابلاخ”, “سابلاغ”, “ساوجبلاغ”, “ماه آباد”, “साबगफाग”, “साबुखाख”, “सौजबलाग मक्री”, and “マハバード”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Mahabad Dam.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Khaneqah-e Khangeh and Dash Teymur.
Khaneqah-e Khangeh
Village
Khaneqah-e Khangeh is a neighborhood in the city… Khaneqah-e Khangeh is situated 5 km north of Mahabad.
Dash Teymur
Village
Dash Teymur is a village in Mokriyan-e Gharbi Rural… Dash Teymur is situated 5 km southwest of Mahabad.
Lachin
Village
Lachin is a village in Akhtachi-ye Gharbi Rural… Lachin is situated 5 km southeast of Mahabad.
Mahabad
- Categories: city of Iran and locality
- Location: West Azerbaijan Province, Iran, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
36.7652° or 36° 45′ 55″ north
Longitude
45.7218° or 45° 43′ 19″ east
Population
168,000
Elevation
1,324 metres (4,344 feet)
Open location code
8H87QP8C+3P
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Mahabad” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مهاباد”
- Armenian: “Մահաբադ”
- Armenian: “Սօվուճբուլագ” (historical)
- Azerbaijani: “Məhabad”
- Basque: “Mahabad”
- Belarusian: “Мехабад”
- Bengali: “মাহাবাদ”
- Breton: “Mahabad”
- Bulgarian: “Махабад”
- Catalan: “Mahabad”
- Cebuano: “Mahābād & Piranshahr”
- Cebuano: “Mahābād”
- Central Kurdish: “مەھاباد”
- Chinese: “馬哈巴德”
- Chinese: “马哈巴德”
- Czech: “Mahábád”
- Danish: “Mahabad”
- Dimli (individual language): “Mehabad”
- Dutch: “Mahabad”
- Dutch: “Mehabad”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مهاباد”
- Esperanto: “Mahabad”
- Esperanto: “Mehabad”
- Finnish: “Mahabad”
- French: “Mahabad”
- German: “Mahabad”
- Greek: “Μαχαμπάντ”
- Gujarati: “મહાબાદ”
- Hebrew: “מהאבאד”
- Hebrew: “מהבאד”
- Hindi: “महाबाद”
- Hungarian: “Mahábád”
- Indonesian: “Mahabad”
- Irish: “Mahabad”
- Italian: “Mahabad”
- Japanese: “マハーバード”
- Kannada: “ಮಹಾಬಾದ್”
- Kazakh: “Mexabad”
- Kazakh: “Мехабад”
- Kazakh: “مەحاباد”
- Korean: “마하바드”
- Kurdish: “Mehabad”
- Kurdish: “مەهاباد”
- Latvian: “Mahabāda”
- Lithuanian: “Mehabadas”
- Luxembourgish: “Mahabad”
- Malagasy: “Mahabad & Piranshahr”
- Malagasy: “Mahabad”
- Malay: “Mahabad & Piranshahr”
- Malay: “Mahabad”
- Marathi: “माहबद”
- Mazanderani: “مهاباد”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mahabad”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mahabad”
- Norwegian: “Mahabad”
- Ossetian: “Мехабад”
- Persian: “مَه آباد”
- Persian: “مِه آباد”
- Persian: “مهاباد”
- Polish: “Mahabad”
- Romanian: “Mahabad & Piranshahr”
- Romanian: “Mahabad”
- Russian: “Махабад”
- Russian: “Мехабад”
- Scots: “Mahabad”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mahabad”
- Sinhala: “මහාබාද්”
- Slovenian: “Mahabad”
- South Azerbaijani: “مهاباد”
- Spanish: “Mahabad”
- Swedish: “Mahabad”
- Tajik: “Mahobod”
- Tajik: “Маҳобод”
- Tamil: “மஹாபட்”
- Tatar: “Мәһабад”
- Telugu: “మహాబాద్”
- Thai: “มาฮาบัด”
- Turkish: “Mahabad”
- Ukrainian: “Мегабад”
- Ukrainian: “Мехабад”
- Urdu: “مہاباد، ایران”
- Uzbek: “Mahobod”
- Vietnamese: “Mahabad”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mahabad”
- Waray (Philippines): “Piranshahr & Mahabad”
- Western Panjabi: “مهاباد”
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Highlights: پاساژ شافعی and شهرداری مهاباد.
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