At the 2006 census, its population was 112,933 in 29,207 households.[6] The following census in 2011 counted 123,081 people in 35,066 households.[7] The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 134,425 people in 41,459 households.[3]
The city of Miandoab is on the
Zarriné-Rūd river and located in the center of the
plain that slopes down to
Lake Urmia. It is 1,314 metres (4,311 ft) above the sea level, at 46°6′
Elatitude and 36°58′
Nlongitude.
The city is a transportation connection point between
West Azerbaijan Province and
East Azerbaijan Province. Thus, the city has been a transportation crossroads between the two large provinces, and has attracted political and economic interest from local and international governments.
Geography
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^Moradi, Golmorad (1992). Ein Jahr autonome Regierung in Kurdistan: die Mahabad-Republik 1946-1947 : Geschichte der kurdischen Aufstandsbewegungen von der arabisch-islamischen Invasion bis zur Mahabad-Republik.
City University of Applied Sciences. p. 256.