Urmia

city in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
Place city_of_iran Q179665
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Urmia

Summary

Urmia is a city of Iran[1]. Urmia ranks in the top 0.9% of city_of_iran entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,478 views/month, #10 of 1,113).[2]

Key Facts

  • Urmia is located in Central District[3].
  • Urmia is in the country of Iran[4].
  • Urmia's head of government is recorded as Q134728797[5].
  • Urmia's instance of is recorded as city of Iran[6].
  • Urmia's instance of is recorded as big city[7].
  • Urmia's official language is recorded as Persian[8].
  • Urmia's twinned administrative body is recorded as Giresun[9].
  • Urmia's postal code is recorded as 5756151818[10].
  • Urmia's Commons category is recorded as Urmia[11].
  • Urmia's located in time zone is recorded as UTC+03:30[12].
  • Urmia's local dialing code is recorded as 0441[13].
  • Urmia's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 37.548611111111114, 'lon': 45.0675}[14].
  • Urmia's official website is recorded as https://urmia.ir[15].
  • Urmia's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Urmia[16].
  • Urmia has a population of {'amount': '+736224'}[17].
  • Urmia's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Urmia[18].
  • Urmia's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19].
  • Urmia's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[20].
  • Urmia's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[21].
  • Urmia's capital of is recorded as Urmia County[22].
  • Urmia's capital of is recorded as West Azarbaijan Province[23].
  • Urmia's category for people born here is recorded as Category:Births in Urmia[24].
  • Urmia's category for people who died here is recorded as Category:Deaths in Urmia[25].
  • Urmia's female population is recorded as {'amount': '+367181'}[26].
  • Urmia's male population is recorded as {'amount': '+369043'}[27].

Body

Geography

Urmia is in the country of Iran[4]. Urmia is located in Central District[3].

Physical Characteristics

Urmia covers an area of {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+42.7'}[28]. Urmia sits at an elevation of {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+1332'}[29]. Urmia has a population of {'amount': '+736224'}[17].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include city of Iran[6] and big city[7].

Cultural Significance

Things named for Urmia include Urmia Airport[30], an airport[31], in Iran[32] and Urmia Lake[33], a hypersaline lake[34], in Iran[35].

Why It Matters

Urmia ranks in the top 0.9% of city_of_iran entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,478 views/month, #10 of 1,113).[2] Urmia has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] Urmia is known by 72 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]

Entities named for Urmia include Urmia Airport[30], an airport[31], in Iran[32] and Urmia Lake[33], a hypersaline lake[34], in Iran[35].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . mehrnews.com. mehrnews.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . amar.org.ir. Retrieved . amar.org.ir. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . amar.org.ir. Retrieved . amar.org.ir. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . amar.org.ir. Retrieved . amar.org.ir. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [29] . wikidata.org.
  27. [28] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [30] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [33] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [36] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [37] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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    Official website https://urmia.ir
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