Middle East
Iran
West Azerbaijan Province

Khoy

Khoy is a city in the Central District of Khoy County, province, , serving as capital of both the county and the district. Occupied since Median times, it shares a long history as an important Christian center.
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  • Type: City with 199,000 residents
  • Description: city in West Azarbaijan Province, Iran
  • Also known as: “Khoi” and “Khowy”

Places of Interest

Highlights include دروازه سنگی and Shams-e Tabrizi’s Cemetery.

Photo: Elmju, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Cemetery
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Tomb of Shams Tabrizi is located beside a tower monument in a memorial park in Khoy, , . It has been nominated as a World Cultural Heritage Center by UNESCO.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Badalabad and Akbarabad.

Village
Photo: Javadkenji, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village in Dizaj Rural District of the Central District in Khoy County, province, .

Village
is a village in Dizaj Rural District of the Central District in Khoy County, province, .

Village
is a village in Qarah Su Rural District, in the Central District of Khoy County, West Azerbaijan Province, . At the 2006 census, its population was 363, in 87 families.

Khoy

Latitude
38.5504° or 38° 33′ 2″ north
Longitude
44.9535° or 44° 57′ 13″ east
Population
199,000
Elevation
1,143 metres (3,750 feet)
IATA airport code
KHY
United Nations Location Code
IR KHY
Open location code
8HC6HX23+5C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 32826994
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
126972
Wiki­data ID
Q605105
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Khoy” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “خوي”
  • Armenian: “Խոյ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hoy”
  • Azerbaijani: “Xoy şəhəri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Xoy”
  • Belarusian: “Хой”
  • Bulgarian: “Хой”
  • Catalan: “Emirat d’Her”
  • Catalan: “Emirat de Khoi”
  • Catalan: “Her”
  • Catalan: “Khanat de Khoy”
  • Catalan: “Khoï”
  • Catalan: “Khoy”
  • Cebuano: “Khvoy”
  • Central Kurdish: “خۆی”
  • Chinese: “Khoy”
  • Chinese: “霍伊”
  • Czech: “Choj”
  • Czech: “Choy”
  • Czech: “Khoy”
  • Danish: “Khoy”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Xoy”
  • Dutch: “Khoy”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “خوى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “خوي”
  • Esperanto: “Ĥoj”
  • Estonian: “Khvoy”
  • Finnish: “Khoy”
  • Finnish: “Khvoy”
  • French: “Khoy”
  • German: “Choy”
  • German: “Khoy”
  • German: “Xoy”
  • Greek: “Χόι”
  • Hebrew: “חוי”
  • Hindi: “खोई”
  • Hindi: “ख्वोय”
  • Hungarian: “Hój”
  • Indonesian: “Khoy”
  • Irish: “Khoy”
  • Italian: “Khoy”
  • Japanese: “ホイ”
  • Kazakh: “Хой”
  • Kurdish: “Kelexiwê”
  • Kurdish: “Kelexwê”
  • Kurdish: “Xoy”
  • Kurdish: “کەلەخوێ”
  • Latin: “Khoy”
  • Lithuanian: “Chojus”
  • Lithuanian: “Chūjus”
  • Malagasy: “Khoy”
  • Malay: “Khoy”
  • Malayalam: “ഖോയ്”
  • Mazanderani: “خوی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Khoy”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Khoy”
  • Norwegian: “Khoy”
  • Ossetian: “Хой”
  • Persian: “خوی”
  • Polish: “Choj”
  • Polish: “Khoy”
  • Portuguese: “Choi”
  • Portuguese: “Coi”
  • Romanian: “Khoy”
  • Russian: “Хой”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hoj”
  • Silesian: “Choj”
  • South Azerbaijani: “خوی”
  • Spanish: “Khoy”
  • Swedish: “Khoy”
  • Swedish: “Khvoi”
  • Swedish: “Khvoy”
  • Tajik: “Xuj”
  • Tajik: “Хуӣ”
  • Tajik: “Хӯй”
  • Tatar: “Хой (шәһәр)”
  • Tatar: “Хой”
  • Thai: “โฆย์”
  • Turkish: “Hoy”
  • Ukrainian: “Хой”
  • Urdu: “خوی”
  • Uzbek: “Xoy”
  • Venetian: “Khoy”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Khoy”
  • Western Panjabi: “خوی”

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