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East Azerbaijan East Azerbaijan Province ( fa, استان آذربایجان شرقی ''Āzarbāijān-e Sharqi''; az-Arab, شرقی آذربایجان اوستانی) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. It is located in Iranian Azerbaijan, bordering Armenia ...

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Osku Osku ( fa, اسكو, az, Üçqaya - اوشقایا also Romanized as Oskū; also known as Uzku and Yuzki) is a city and capital of Osku County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. Osku is one of the oldest cities in East Azerbaijan and is obtained a ...

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, utc_offset = +3:30 , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , elevation_m = , area_code = , website = , footnotes = Sahand ( fa, سهند) is a city in the Central District of

Osku County Osku County ( fa, شهرستان اسکو) is located in East Azerbaijan province, Iran. The capital of the county is Osku. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 84,061, in 23,613 households. Retrieved 3 November 2022 The following cens ...

province,

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. At the 2006 census, its population was 13,610 in 3,922 households, when it was a village. The following census in 2011 counted 24,704 people in 7,342 households, by which time the village had been elevated to the status of a city. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 82,494 people in 25,802 households. Sahand is a

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located in

. It is designed to accommodate the overflow of the Tabriz metropolitan area's increasing population. The main campus of

Sahand University of Technology Sahand University of Technology (SUT) ( fa, دانشگاه صنعتی سهند, ''Danushgah-e Sân'ti-ye Sihend'') Sahand University of Technology (SUT) as the first technical university in Iran after Islamic revolution was established in 1989 ...

is located in the southeastern part of the city.

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Osku County Cities in East Azerbaijan Province Populated places in East Azerbaijan Province Populated places in Osku County Planned cities in Iran {{Osku-geo-stub