Khoy
Khoy is a city in the Central District of Khoy County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. Occupied since Median times, it shares a long history as an important Christian center.
- Type: City with 199,000 residents
- Description: city in West Azarbaijan Province, Iran
- Also known as: “Chūjus”, “Emirat d’Her”, “Emirat de Khoi”, “Kelexiwê”, “Khanat de Khoy”, “Khoi”, “Khoï”, “Khowy”, “Khuy”, “Khūy”, “Khvoi”, and “Xoy şəhəri”
Places of Interest
Highlights: دروازه سنگی and Shams-e Tabrizi’s Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Badalabad and Akbarabad.
Khoy
- Categories: city of Iran, big city, and locality
- Location: Khowy County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
38.5479° or 38° 32′ 53″ north
Longitude
44.9512° or 44° 57′ 5″ east
Population
199,000
Elevation
1,143 metres (3,750 feet)
IATA airport code
KHY
UN/LOCODE
IR KHY
Open location code
8HC6GXX2+5F
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Khoy” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خوي”
- Armenian: “Her”
- Armenian: “Խոյ”
- Azerbaijani: “Xoy”
- Belarusian: “Хой”
- Bulgarian: “Хой”
- Catalan: “Khoy”
- Cebuano: “Khvoy”
- Central Kurdish: “خۆی”
- Chinese: “霍伊”
- Czech: “Choj”
- Danish: “Khoy”
- Dimli (individual language): “Xoy”
- Dutch: “Khoy”
- Egyptian Arabic: “خوى”
- Esperanto: “Ĥoj”
- Estonian: “Khvoy”
- Finnish: “Khoy”
- French: “Khoy”
- German: “Choy”
- German: “Khoy”
- Greek: “Χόι”
- Hebrew: “ח’וי”
- Hebrew: “חוי”
- Hindi: “खोई”
- Hindi: “ख्वोय”
- Hungarian: “Hój”
- Indonesian: “Khoy”
- Irish: “Khoy”
- Italian: “Khoy”
- Japanese: “ホイ”
- Kazakh: “Хой”
- Korean: “호이”
- Kurdish: “Kelexwê”
- Kurdish: “Xoy”
- Kurdish: “خۆی”
- Kurdish: “کەلەخوێ”
- Latin: “Khoy”
- Lithuanian: “Chojus”
- Malagasy: “Khoy”
- Malay: “Khoy”
- Malayalam: “ഖോയ്”
- Mazanderani: “خوی”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Khoy”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khoy”
- Norwegian: “Khoy”
- Ossetian: “Хой”
- Persian: “خوی”
- Polish: “Choj”
- Portuguese: “Choi”
- Portuguese: “Coi”
- Romanian: “Khoy”
- Russian: “Хой”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hoj”
- Silesian: “Choj”
- South Azerbaijani: “خوی”
- Spanish: “Khoy”
- Swedish: “Khoy”
- Tajik: “Xuj”
- Tajik: “Хуӣ”
- Tajik: “Хӯй”
- Tatar: “Хой (шәһәр)”
- Tatar: “Хой”
- Thai: “โฆย์”
- Turkish: “Hoy”
- Ukrainian: “Хой”
- Urdu: “خوئے، ایران”
- Uzbek: “Xoy”
- Venetian: “Khoy”
- Waray (Philippines): “Khoy”
- Western Panjabi: “خوی”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: احمدنیا and کامرانیه.
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Highlights: خانه کبیری and پارک گازرسانی.
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