## page was renamed from RegionEnTemplate #language en = 2011/Iran/Mashhad = '''Mashhad''' ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_language|Persian]]: مشهد, ‹Mašhad›, literally ''the place of martyrdom'') is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Iranian_cities_by_population|second largest]] city in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran|Iran]] and one of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiest_sites_in_Islam|holiest cities]] in the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shia|Shia]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim|Muslim]] world. It is located 850 kilometres (530 mi) east of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran|Tehran]], at the center of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razavi_Khorasan_Province|Razavi Khorasan Province]] close to the borders of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan|Afghanistan]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkmenistan|Turkmenistan]]. Its population was 2,427,316 at the 2006 population census. == Teams == Please add links to your team(s) name here: * [[/MashhadLUG|Mashhad LUG]] (The idea of adding another team page is that there may be more than one team in a region/city) == Create a new Team page: == <> In all cases you need to keep the {{{CategoryCity2011}}} to allow your city to be listed! ---- CategoryCity2011