Kuhpayeh is a city in Tudeshk District of Kuhpayeh County, Isfahan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. Kuhpayeh is an historic city 70 km east of Isfahan and where the film The Stoning of Soraya M. is depicted.

Demographics

Language

The town has a distinct language/dialect of Farsi, known as "Velayati" or " Kuhpaye'i" and very similar to the Gazi language, which belongs to the northwestern Iranian languages (Indo-European -> Indo-Iranian -> Iranian -> Western -> Northwestern II -> Tatic -> Kermanic/Central Plateau -> Southwestern -> Velayati/Gazi).

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 4,417 in 1,200 households, when it was capital of the former Kuhpayeh District of Isfahan County. The following census in 2011 counted 4,587 people in 1,335 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 5,518 people in 1,765 households. In 2021, the district was separated from the county in the establishment of Kuhpayeh County, and Kuhpayeh was transferred to the new Tudeshk District as the county's capital.