Nur () is a city in the Central District of Nur County,

Mazandaran Mazandaran Province (; ) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. Its capital is the city of Sari, Iran, Sari. Located along the southern coast of the Caspian Sea and in the adjacent Central Alborz mountain range and Hyrcanian forests, it is border ...

province,

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

, serving as capital of both the county and the district. It is on the

Caspian Sea The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, described as the List of lakes by area, world's largest lake and usually referred to as a full-fledged sea. An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia: east of the Caucasus, ...

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 21,806 in 6,164 households. The following census in 2011 counted 22,978 people in 6,815 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 26,947 people in 8,597 households.

Overview

Nur is one of the oldest cities of

Mazandaran province Mazandaran Province (; ) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. Its capital is the city of Sari. Located along the southern coast of the Caspian Sea and in the adjacent Central Alborz mountain range and Hyrcanian forests, it is bordered clockw ...

. Located on the

coast, it derives its name from Nur County, of which it is the administrative seat. In the past, Nur was reputedly known as Suldeh and is one of the ancient cities of Mazandaran. Nur Forest Park, the largest forest park in the West Asia with an area about 4000 hectares and a variety of plant species, is located in this region.

Notable people

* Mirza Aqa Khan Nuri (1807–1865), politician * Nima Yooshij (1897–1960), contemporary Persian and Tabarian poet * Sheikh Fazlollah Noori (1843–1909), Shia Muslim cleric * Bahá'u'lláh (1817–1892), Persian religious leader and founder of the Bahá'í Faith * Gholam-Hossein Banan (1911–1986), Iranian musician and singer * Haji Washington (1849–1937) Iranian politician, cabinet minister, and diplomat * Subh-i-Azal (1831–1912), Persian religious leader * Mirza Husain Noori Tabarsi (1838–1902), Shi'a Islamic cleric and father of Islamic Shi'a Renaissance *

Noureddin Kianouri Noureddin Kianouri (; 1915–1999) was an Iranian construction engineer, urban planner, professor of Bauakademie der DDR in Berlin, and a communist political leader. He studied first at University of Tehran until 1934 and later in Germany from 1 ...

(1915–1999), politician and revolutionary * Parviz Natel-Khanlari (1914–1990), Iranian literary scholar, linguist, author, and researcher * Hossein Shah-Hosseini, politician * Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri, politician * Mirza Hassan Khan Esfandiary (1867–1945), politician * Gholam Hossein Sadighi, politician *

Abolhassan Sadighi Abolhassan Sadighi () (5 October 1894 – 11 December 1995) was an Iranian sculptor and painter and was known as Ostad Sadighi (English: Master Sadighi). He was a student and disciple of Kamal-ol-molk. The statue of Ferdowsi in the Ferdowsi squa ...

, sculptor and painter * Manouchehr Sotoudeh, geographer and scholar * Musa Nuri Esfandiari, diplomat and ambassador * Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh, political scientist and historian * Rahman Rezaei, football player and coach * Hamed Kavianpour, professional football player * Roya Nonahali, actress * Hanif Omranzadeh, footballer

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References

External links

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