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Nishapur

city in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
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Nishapur
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Facts

17 properties

Identity

Instance of
city of Iran, big city[4]
Official website
neyshabur.ir[9]
Native label
نیشابور, نیشاپور[19][20]
Official name
نیشابور[16]

Location

Country
Iran[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 36.213°, 58.796°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Central District[2]

Population and size

Elevation above sea level
+1199[21]
Female population
+132102[17]
Male population
+132273[18]
Population
+264375[10]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 264,375 GeoNames 220,929 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Local dialing code
051[8]
More facts +5
Capital of
Nishapur County, Seljuk Empire, Khanate of Nishapur, Tahirid Empire[12][13][14][15]
Described by source
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11]
Member of
League of Historical Cities[1]
P14536
380583[22]
Twinned administrative body
Bukhara, Samarkand, Khujand[5][6][7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Nishabur en Nisapur en Neyshabur en Nishapur en Abarshahr en Aparshahr en Raēvant ar نيشابور ar نيسابور ar إيرانشهر ar نيشاپور cs Níšápúr da Neyshabur de Nishapur de Naysābūr de Neyshabur de Neyschabur de Nischapur de Neyshabour de Nīsābūr
🔖 Identifiers · 33
VIAF cluster ID
136057278
Library of Congress authority ID
n81144037
GND ID
4042032-2
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
11958982g
Biblissima authority ID
Örnsköldsvik
Canadiana Name Authority ID
ncf12007783
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Neyshabur
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
nishapur
FAST ID
1217084
Facebook location ID
105773942795833
Freebase ID
/m/02159q
GNS Unique Feature ID
-3076915
Show all 33 identifiers +21
GeoNames ID
122285
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2665146
Grove Art Online ID
T062578
IdRef ID
027580075
Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID
1786
Museum-digital place ID
8448
MusicBrainz area ID
b9eecadd-c3c3-4926-8f7f-30b35edad706
National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
geo/81ED04AC-8E75-4E80-B1A9-7A19BA381B78
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007566825205171
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
XX6016891
Nomisma ID
madinat_abrashahr, madinat_naysabur, nishapur
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3947887
OpenStreetMap node ID
32675715
OpenStreetMap relation ID
9518162
PACTOLS thesaurus ID
pcrtwc4zQo218k
Quora topic ID
Neyshabur-Iran
SNARC ID
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
TDV Encyclopedia of Islam ID
nisabur--iran
Topic's main category
Category:Nishapur
Who's on First ID
1125929423
Yale LUX ID
place/f372b669-fdba-4c16-945d-aae43bd68f58

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🔗 Connections
People born here 47
Omar Khayyám, Attar of Nishapur, Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj, Haji Bektash Veli, Al-Juwayni, Hakim al-Nishaburi, Ibn Khuzaymah, Hossein Vahid Khorasani +39 more
People who died here 26
Omar Khayyám, Attar of Nishapur, Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj, Al-Bayhaqi, Al-Juwayni, Abd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin Qushayri, Hakim al-Nishaburi, Kamal-ol-molk +18 more
Residents 7
Al-Ghazali, Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr, Abul-Fazl Bayhaqi, Al-Shahrastani, Ibn Ṭahmān, Juwaynī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf, Ahmad ibn Harb
Located in this place 6
Jameh Mosque of Nishapur, Nishapur train disaster, Battle of Nishapur, Siege of Nishapur, Omar Khayyam Square, Amin al-Islami Garden
← Category combines topics 5
Category:People from Nishapur, Category:Births in Nishapur, Category:Deaths in Nishapur, Category:History of Nishapur, Category:Buildings and structures in Nishapur
← Work location 5
Al-Juwayni, Abd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin Qushayri, Abu Ishaq al-Tha'labi, Ibn Furak, Wāḥidī Nīsābūrī
← Capital 4
Seljuk Empire, Tahirid dynasty, Nishapur County, Khanate of Nishapur
Capital of 3
Seljuk Empire, Nishapur County, Khanate of Nishapur
Twinned administrative body 3
Samarkand, Bukhara, Khujand
← Twinned administrative body 3
Samarkand, Bukhara, Khujand
Contained subdivisions 2
Islamic Azad University of Nishapur, University of Neyshabur
Category for people born here 1
Category:Births in Nishapur
Category for people who died here 1
Category:Deaths in Nishapur
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Nishapur
Country 1
Iran
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Employees / affiliates 1
Ismail ibn Hammad al-Jawhari
Instance of 1
big city
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Central District
Located in time zone 1
UTC+03:30
Member of 1
League of Historical Cities
SNARC ID 1
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Topic's main category 1
Category:Nishapur
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Nishapur
← FactGrid item ID 1
Saint-Cirice
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Related Entities

Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr Al-Ghazali Amin al-Islami Garden Attar of Nishapur Haji Bektash Veli Iran Islamic Azad University of Nishapur Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj Omar Khayyám University of Neyshabur

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  1. 11w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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