Bukan
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| Province : | West Azerbaijan | ||
| Coordinates : | 36 ° 31 ' N , 46 ° 13' E | ||
| Height : | 1300 m | ||
| Residents : | 169,041 (extrapolation 2012) | ||
| Time zone : | UTC +3: 30 | ||
Bukan ( Persian بوکان), also called Bokan in Kurdish , is a city in northwest Iran .
Bukan has about 169,041 inhabitants, making it the second largest city in the province of West Azerbaijan . It is located south of Urmia Lake at around 1,300 meters above sea level. The name bukan is believed to be derived from the Kurdish word būk-ān , which means “brides”. The population of Bukan is made up of Kurds .
sons and daughters of the town
- Sadegh Scharafkandi (1938–1992), chairman of the Kurdistan-Iran Democratic Party from 1989 to 1993
See also
literature
- Amir Hassanpour: Bukan . In: Ehsan Yarshater (Ed.): Encyclopædia Iranica (English, including references)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: bevoelkerungsstatistik.de
- ^ V. Minorsky : Mongol Place-Names in Mukri Kurdistan. (Mongolica, 4) In: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Volume 19, No. 1, 1957, pp. 58–81, here p. 68