Urmia sits on the western shore of Lake Urmia, a salt lake that has shrunk sharply in recent decades.<\/p>\n
This hub is small for now. Its main article is on Teppe Hasanlu, south of the lake, an Iron Age mound where archaeologists found the Hasanlu Gold Bowl. For the city, the lake and how to get there, read our Urmia travel guide<\/a>.<\/p>","link":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/destinations\/urmia\/","name":"Urmia","slug":"urmia","taxonomy":"category","parent":308,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/16281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/308"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=16281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}