Shahmirzad

Shahmirzad
Persian: شهميرزاد
City
The Bala Sheikhi neighborhood in the city of Shahmirzad
The Bala Sheikhi neighborhood in the city of Shahmirzad
Shahmirzad is located in Iran
Shahmirzad
Shahmirzad
Location within Iran
Coordinates: 35°46′12″N 53°20′01″E / 35.77000°N 53.33361°E / 35.77000; 53.33361[1][2]
CountryIran
ProvinceSemnan
CountyMehdishahr
DistrictShahmirzad
Population
 (2016)[3]
 • Total
11,191
Time zoneUTC+3:30 (IRST)
Websitehttps://www.shahmirzad.city/En

Shahmirzad (Persian: شهميرزاد)[a] is a city in, and the capital of, Shahmirzad District[5] in Mehdishahr County, Semnan province, Iran. Shahmirzad is in the northern part of the country and on the southern slopes of the Alborz Mountains.

Demographics

Language

The Shahmirzadi language (شامرزایی) is a Caspian language close to Mazandarani.[6]

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 7,273 in 1,860 households, when it was in the former Mehdishahr District of Semnan County.[7] The following census in 2011 counted 8,882 people in 2,625 households,[8] by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Mehdishahr County. Shahmirzad was transferred to the new Shahmirzad District.[5] The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 11,191 people in 3,789 households.[3] During the summer, the city's population approaches 40,000 as tourists come for its cool climate and popular gardens.

Overview

Shahmirzad has been home to people of diverse ethnic backgrounds, a large group of whom seasonally settled in cities and towns of Mazandaran province, such as Babol, Sari, Neka, and Behshahr. During the past decades many Muslim, Bahá'í, and Shahmirzadi Jews,[9] migrated to larger cities in Iran and abroad, most notably the San Francisco Bay Area.

Shahmirzad's walnut orchard, with a size of 700 ha, is noted by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization as the largest of its kind in the world.[10] Shahmirzadi homeowners are given a proprietary interest in the walnut orchard in proportion to the amount of land they own in the city. Shahmirzad also produces the mineral water called "Tenab-e Shahmirzad."[11][12]

Notable people

See also

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Notes

  1. ↑ Also romanized as Shahmīrzād; also known as Shamīrzād; also known locally as Shamirza (شامرزا)[4]

References

  1. ↑ OpenStreetMap contributors (7 January 2025). "Valiasr Square, Shahmirzad Town, بخش شهمیرزاد [Shahmirzad District], Mehdishahr County, Semnan Province, Iran" (Map). OpenStreetMap (in Persian). Retrieved 7 January 2025.
  2. ↑ "Q89M+XCX Shahmirzad, Semnan Province, Iran" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 28 January 2026.
  3. 1 2 سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1395 : استان سمنان [General Population and Housing Census 2016: Semnan Province]. مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran] (in Persian). Archived from the original (Excel) on 17 November 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  4. ↑ Shahmirzad at GEOnet Names Server
  5. 1 2 Davoodi, Parviz (9 December 2007) [تاریخ تصویب (Approval date) 1386/09/18 (Iranian Jalali calendar)]. تصویب نامه درخصوص اصلاحات تقسیمات کشوری در استان سمنان [‌Approval regarding the reforms of national divisions in Semnan province]. لام تا کام [Lam ta Kam] (in Persian). ‌وزارت کشور [Ministry of the Interior]. کمیسیون سیاسی دفاعی هیأت دولت [Political Defense Commission of the Government Board]. شناسه [ID] 5B5D84AC-D66D-497B-A9BD-AA6DBDEFA34B. Archived from the original on 2 January 2024. Retrieved 27 January 2026.
  6. ↑ Ethnologue report for language code:srz
  7. ↑ سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1385 : استان سمنان [General Population and Housing Census 2006: Semnan Province]. مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran] (in Persian). Archived from the original (Excel) on 20 September 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
  8. ↑ سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1390 : استان سمنان [General Population and Housing Census 2011: Semnan Province]. Iran Data Portal—Syracuse University (in Persian). مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran]. Archived from the original (Excel) on 20 January 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  9. ↑ Kirmānshāhchī, Ḥishmat Allāh. Taḥavvulāt-i ijtimāʻī-i Yahūdiyān-i Īrān dar qarn-i bīstum. Los Angeles, CA: Shirkat-i Kitāb, 2007. Print
  10. ↑ Iran Daily Archived 2007-10-17 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ↑ Tenab Shahmirzad, Iran - Water from all over the World Archived 2006-02-13 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ↑ "History (Farsi)". Archived from the original on 16 January 2010. Retrieved 13 December 2009.
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