Kermanshah or Kermashan (; ), is the capital city of Kermanshah Province, 525 km from Tehran in the western part of Iran and it is about 120 km from the border of Iraq. Kermanshah has a continental climate. The estimated population of the city is 822,921 (year 2005), and the majority of the inhabitants speak Kurdish as well as Persian. The religion of the people is diverse, but Muslims are leading in the number.Kermanshah is the largest Kurdish City in Iran.