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Salmas

city in West Azarbaijan Province, Iran
City City of Iran Q765806

Facts

15 properties

Identity

Instance of
city of Iran
Official website
salmas.ir[5]
Native label
سلماس[15]
Official name
سلماس[12]

Location

Country
Iran[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 38.200°, 44.767°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Central District[2]

Population and size

Area
9.26 sq mi[17]
Elevation above sea level
1,396 m[16]
Female population
45,003 (2016)[13]
Male population
47,808 (2016)[14]
Population
128k (80k–128k, n=3)[6][7][8]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 79,560 · 92,811 · 127,864 GeoNames 81,606 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
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Capital of
Salmas County[11]
Described by source
The American Cyclopædia, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 10[9][10]
Official language
Persian[4]
🏷️ Also known as
en Salmas en Dilmanqan ar سلماس de Salmas de Khosrova de Salamas el Σαλμάς fa دیلمقان he סלמאס hi सालमास hu Szalmász ja サルマス ru Сельмас sv Salmās zh 萨勒马斯
🔖 Identifiers · 9
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Salmas -city.jpg ↗
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID
32817
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Salmas
Freebase ID
/m/0bcb8q
GNS Unique Feature ID
-3,082,081
GeoNames ID
117656
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/121n9dzf
Topic's main category
Category:Salmas
Who's on First ID
421197283
📚 Sources · 1
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
People born here 5
Emmanuel Agassi, Kishvari, Paul Bedjan, Mahmoud Ghanizadeh, Hadi Asghari
People who died here 2
Shimun XXI Benyamin, Said Salmasi
Capital of 1
Salmas County
Category for people born here 1
Category:People from Salmas
Contained subdivisions 1
Hakkari earthquake of 1930
Country 1
Iran
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Central District
Located in this place 1
Chehriq
Official language 1
Persian
Topic's main category 1
Category:Salmas
← Capital 1
Salmas County
← Category combines topics 1
Category:People from Salmas
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Category:Salmas
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Summary

Salmas is a city of Iran[1].

Related Entities

Iran

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . amar.org.ir. Retrieved . amar.org.ir. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . amar.org.ir. Retrieved . amar.org.ir. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . amar.org.ir. Retrieved . amar.org.ir. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 19w ago · Yousiphh · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Category for people born here → Category:People from Salmas
    Described by source → The American Cyclopædia, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 10
    Area → 9.26 square mile
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Central District
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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