Iran · Kermanshah Province · Kermanshah
Nūkān, Kermanshah — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Nūkān is a neighbourhood of Kermanshah in Iran, a village of the Dorudfaraman Rural District until its annexation to the city in 2012.
About Nūkān
Where to stay in Nūkān
Each area has its own feel; here's who each one suits.
Rooms belong to Kermanshah, not to Nūkān. The quarter came into the city in 2012 out of the Dorudfaraman Rural District, and its streets carry the look of that origin rather than any hotel trade, so a bed is taken in the wider city and the neighbourhood reached from there. Lodging inside the quarter is thin.
Anyone whose reason for staying is family or work in Nūkān is still booking against the supply of Kermanshah as a whole.
About Nūkān
What are the main landmarks in Nūkān?
Nūkān carries no listed monuments. What the record keeps is the fact of a village absorbed into Kermanshah, so the set pieces a visitor photographs sit in the parent city and out across Kermanshah County instead. The quarter's own markers are ordinary.
Streets laid out for a settlement of the Dorudfaraman Rural District still run through it, and that older grain is the most legible thing on the ground.
What is the history of Nūkān?
Before the city reached it, Nūkān was a village. It stood in the Dorudfaraman Rural District, within the Central District of Kermanshah County in Kermanshah Province, and it was counted as a settlement of its own at the census of 2006. The English record writes the name Nukan.
Annexation came in 2012. Nūkān was taken into the urban area of Kermanshah alongside several other villages and became one of the neighbourhoods of that city, which is how the record has read since.
Where is Nūkān?
Nūkān lies within the urban area of Kermanshah, on subtropical ground that the Central District of Kermanshah County surrounds.
Updated August 2026