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Nishapur
or
Nishabur
(
Persie
:
???????
, Romanizit as
N?sh?p?r
,
N?sh?b?r
, an
Neysh?b?r
an aw),
[2]
is a ceety in the
Razavi Khorasan Province
in northeastren
Iran
, situatit in a fertile plain at the fuit o the
Binalud Muntains
, near the regional caipital o
Mashhad
. Nishapur derivit its name frae its allegit foonder, the Sasanian keeng
Shapur I
.
The region's economy is lairgely agricultural, based on grain an cotton, an it is the seicont industrial ceety in
Khorasan
, an it is ane o the maist prosperous localities in Iran, awtho somewha blichtit bi drog smugglin frae nearbi
Afghanistan
. It haed a population o 205,972 fowk accordin tae 2006 census.
[3]
The main east-wast railwey line throu Iran passes throu the toun. The region is vera prone tae
yirdquauks
, wi the maist recent significant anes occurrin in 1986 an 1997.
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