Nishapur

Nishapur or Nishabur is the second largest city of Razavi Province, the historic capital of the western half of Greater Khorasan, the capital of the Nishapur County and a historic Silk Road city.
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  • Type: City with 264,000 residents
  • Description: city in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
  • Also known as: Abarshahr”, “Aparshahr”, “Neyshabur”, “Nisapur”, “Nishabur”, and “Raēvant

Places of Interest

Highlights include Amin Islami’s house and Saeedi’s Garden.

The Khanate Mansion and Garden of Amin Islami is a historic Pahlavi era building and garden in Nishapur, . It is part of the Iranian national heritage list with the registration number of 4809.

Garden
Saeedi Garden is a historical garden with an area of 4 hectares located in Nishapur, . The garden was built in the late Qajar dynasty and early Pahlavi period.

Park
is a city square named after Omar Khayyam in Nishapur, . A monument from the Mausoleum of Omar Khayyam was moved here in the 20th century.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Farrokhabad and Sanguni.

Village
is a village in Rivand Rural District, in the Central District of Nishapur County, Razavi Khorasan Province, . At the 2006 census, its population was 132, in 38 families.

Village
is a village in Mazul Rural District, in the Central District of Nishapur County, Razavi Khorasan Province, . At the 2006 census, its population was 219, in 59 families.

Nishapur

Latitude
36.2106° or 36° 12′ 38″ north
Longitude
58.7922° or 58° 47′ 32″ east
Population
264,000
Elevation
1,199 metres (3,934 feet)
Open location code
8H8W6Q6R+6V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 32675715
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
122285
Wiki­data ID
Q131350
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Nishapur” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Nishapur
  • Afrikaans: Nisjapoer
  • Albanian: Nishapur
  • Arabic: إيرانشهر
  • Arabic: نيسابور
  • Arabic: نيشابور
  • Arabic: نيشاپور
  • Armenian: Նիշապուր
  • Azerbaijani: Nişapur
  • Bashkir: Нишапур
  • Basque: Nixapur
  • Belarusian: Нішапур
  • Bengali: নিশাপুর
  • Bishnupriya: Neyshapur
  • Breton: Nishapur
  • Bulgarian: Нишапур
  • Catalan: Naysabur
  • Catalan: Neyshābūr
  • Catalan: Nishapur
  • Catalan: Nixapur
  • Cebuano: Nīshābūr
  • Central Kurdish: نەیشابوور
  • Central Kurdish: نیشابوور
  • Chinese: Nishapur
  • Chinese: 內沙布爾
  • Chinese: 内沙布尔
  • Chinese: 尼沙布尔
  • Chinese: 尼沙普尔
  • Chinese: 尼沙普爾
  • Croatian: Nišapur
  • Czech: Níšápúr
  • Danish: Neyshabur
  • Dimli (individual language): Nişabur
  • Dutch: Neyshabur
  • Dutch: Nischapur
  • Dutch: Nishapur
  • Dutch: Nisjaboer
  • Dutch: Nisjapoer
  • Eastern Mari: Нишапур
  • Egyptian Arabic: شهرستان خواف
  • Egyptian Arabic: نيشابور
  • Egyptian Arabic: نیشابور
  • Esperanto: Nejŝaburo
  • Estonian: Neyshabur
  • Estonian: Neyshābūr
  • Estonian: Nišabur
  • Estonian: Nishaapur
  • Finnish: Nešabur
  • Finnish: Neshabur
  • Finnish: Nišapur
  • Finnish: Nishapur
  • French: Naysabur
  • French: Neyshabur
  • French: Nichapour
  • French: Nichapur
  • French: Nishapur
  • French: Nishâpur
  • French: Nishâpûr
  • Georgian: ნიშაბური
  • Georgian: ნიშაპური
  • German: Naysābūr
  • German: Neyschabur
  • German: Neyshabour
  • German: Neyshabur
  • German: Nīsābūr
  • German: Nischapur
  • German: Nishapur
  • Greek: Νισαπούρ
  • Hebrew: נישאפור
  • Hindi: निशापुर, इरान
  • Hindi: निशापुर
  • Hungarian: Neisápur
  • Indonesian: Naisabur
  • Indonesian: Naisaburi
  • Irish: Nishapur
  • Italian: Neyshabur
  • Italian: Nishapur
  • Italian: Nīshāpūr
  • Japanese: ニーシャープール
  • Japanese: ニーシャプール
  • Japanese: ニシャプー
  • Japanese: ニシャプール
  • Kabyle: Nisapur
  • Kannada: ನೀಶಪೂರ್
  • Kazakh: Nïşapwr
  • Kazakh: Нишапур
  • Kazakh: نىيشاپۋر
  • Korean: 니샤푸르
  • Kurdish: Nîşabûr
  • Kurdish: نیشابوور
  • Latin: Nisapurum
  • Latvian: Neišābūra
  • Lithuanian: Nišapuras
  • Lithuanian: Nišapūras
  • Macedonian: Нишапур
  • Malagasy: Nishapur
  • Malayalam: നിഷാപൂർ
  • Maltese: Nishapur
  • Marathi: निशापूर
  • Mazanderani: نیشابور
  • Min Nan Chinese: Nishapur
  • Mongolian: Нишапур
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Neyshabur
  • Norwegian: Neyshabur
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ࡍࡉࡔࡀࡁࡅࡓ
  • Ossetian: Нишапур
  • Panjabi: ਨਿਸ਼ਾਪੁਰ
  • Persian: شهر نیشابور
  • Persian: نیشابور
  • Persian: نیشاپور
  • Polish: Nejszabur
  • Polish: Niszapur
  • Portuguese: Neshabur
  • Portuguese: Nishapur
  • Portuguese: Nixapur
  • Romanian: Neyshabur
  • Romanian: Nișapur
  • Russian: Найсабур
  • Russian: Нешапур
  • Russian: Нишапур
  • Scots: Nishapur
  • Serbian: Нишапур
  • Serbo-Croatian: Nišapur
  • Sicilian: Nīshāpūr
  • Slovak: Íránšahr
  • Slovak: Najsábúr
  • Slovak: Najšábúr
  • Slovak: Nejšápúr
  • Slovak: Néšápúr
  • Slovak: Névšáhpuhr
  • Slovak: Nisábur
  • Slovak: Nísábúr
  • Slovak: Níšábúr
  • Slovak: Nišapúr
  • Slovak: Nišápur
  • Slovak: Níšápur
  • Slovak: Níšápúr
  • Slovak: Níšávúr
  • Slovak: Niu-Šapuh
  • Slovenian: Nišapur
  • Somali: Niisaabuur
  • South Azerbaijani: نیشابور
  • Spanish: Neysha bu r
  • Spanish: Neysha bu-r
  • Spanish: Neysha-bu-r
  • Spanish: Neyshabur
  • Spanish: Neyshabūr
  • Spanish: Neyshābur
  • Spanish: Neyshābūr
  • Spanish: Nishapur
  • Swedish: Neyshabur
  • Swedish: Neyshâbûr
  • Swedish: Nīshābūr
  • Swedish: Nishapur
  • Tajik: Nişopur
  • Tajik: Найшобур
  • Tajik: Найшобӯр
  • Tajik: Нишопур
  • Tamil: நிசாபூர்
  • Tatar: Нишапур
  • Thai: นีชอบูร์
  • Turkish: Nişabur
  • Turkish: Nişapur
  • Turkmen: Nişabur
  • Uighur: نىشاپۇر
  • Ukrainian: Нішапур
  • Urdu: نیشا پور
  • Urdu: نیشابور
  • Urdu: نیشاپور
  • Uzbek: Nishopur
  • Venetian: Nishapur
  • Vietnamese: Nishapur
  • Waray (Philippines): Neyshabur
  • Welsh: Nishapur
  • Western Panjabi: نیشابور
  • Wu Chinese: 内沙布尔

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