Nishapur or
Nishabur (; , also
Romanized as
Nishapur,
Nishabur, and
Neyshabur from
Middle Persian:
New-Shabuhr, meaning "New City of
Shapur", "Fair Shapur", or "Perfect built of Shapur") is a city in the
Razavi Khorasan Province, capital of the
Nishapur County and former capital of
Khorasan, in northeastern
Iran, situated in a fertile plain at the foot of the
Mount Binalud. It had an estimated population of 239,185 as of 2011 and its county 433,105. Nearby are the
turquoise mines that have supplied the world with turquoise for at least two millennia.