Oshnavieh County ( fa, شهرستان اشنویه;
Kurdish: 'اشنۆ'شنۆ'شنه) is located in
West Azerbaijan province,
Iran. The capital of the county is
Oshnavieh
Oshnavieh ( fa, اشنويه, Oshnavīyeh; ku, شنۆ, translit=Şino) is the capital city of Oshnavieh County, West Azerbaijan Province in Iran. At the 2016 census, its population was 40,000 in 2,000 families.
The city is populated by Kurds ...
. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 63,798, in 12,998 households.
[ Retrieved 2 November 2022] The following census in 2011 counted 70,030 people, in 17,778 households.
At the 2016 census, the county's population was 73,886, in 19,336 households.
The county lies west of
Lake Urmia about 1,300 metres above sea level, on the border with the Kurdish provinces of Iraq. The county is surrounded by high mountains which remain cool even at the height of summer.
History
During
Iran-Iraq war,
Ba'athist Iraq
Ba'athist Iraq, formally the Iraqi Republic until 6 January 1992 and the Republic of Iraq thereafter, covers the History of Iraq, national history of Iraq between 1968 and 2003 under the rule of the Ba'ath Party (Iraqi-dominated faction), Arab S ...
regime bombarded some parts of Oshnavieh in
West Azerbaijan Province (on 2 August 1988) by Chemical bombs; and about 2700 persons were injured as a result of that.
Administrative divisions
References
Counties of West Azerbaijan Province
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