Yasuj, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran

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🇮🇷 Yasuj (ياسوج,  Yāsūj); also romanized as Yasooj, and Yesūj; Luri: یاسووج Jasuc or یاسیچ Jasyç) is a city in the Central District of Boyer-Ahmad County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, Iran, and serves as capital of the district, the county, and the province.

Yasuj is an industrial city in the Zagros Mountains of south-western Iran. The term Yasuj is also used to refer to the entire region.

Yasuj has a sugar processing plant.

History The area of Yasuj has been settled since as early as the Bronze Age. Findings include the Martyrs Hills (dating from 3rd millennium BC), the Khosravi Hill from the Achaemenian period, the ancient site of Gerd, the Pataveh bridge, and the Pay-e Chol cemetery. Yasuj is the place where Alexander III of Macedon and his Macedonian forces stormed the Persian Gates (Darvazeh-ye Fars), and found a way into the Persian heartland (331 BC).

The Yasuj Museum, which opened in 2002, displays coins, statues, pottery, and bronze vessels recovered from surrounding archaeological sites.

On May 18, 2023, the city of Madavan and the villages of Balahzar, Jadval-e Ghureh-ye Mehrian, Madavan-e Sofla, Mehrian, Sarab-e Taveh, Servak, and Tall Khosrow merged with the city of Yasuj.

Economy The economy of Yasuj is based on the following local activities: • baskets • carpets/rugs • mosaic tiles • bricks • livestock feed

By 2014 a new refinery will be constructed by the private sector, at a cost of $2.2 billion. It will produce petrol, gasoil, kerosene, furnace oil, liquefied gas, asphalt, and sulfur.

Education • Yasouj University • Yasuj University of Medical Sciences • Yasuj Azad University.

Yasuj, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran 
<b>Yasuj, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran</b>
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Yasuj has a population of over 134,500 people. Yasuj also forms the centre of the wider Boyer-Ahmad County which has a population of over 299,885 people.

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Antipodal to Yasuj is: -128.433,-30.667

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