Kord Kūy — Kord Kūy Map Poster & Print

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Kord Kūy Map Poster & Print

Kord Kūy sits in western Golestan, on the narrow strip of lowland between the Alborz mountains and the southeastern shore of the Caspian Sea. From above, the town is a dense core with the main road between Gorgan and the coast running through it. Around that core is a looser fringe of houses, orchards and field boundaries. To the south the street pattern thins quickly as the ground rises toward wooded slopes.

The surrounding plain is heavily farmed, and on a map that shows up as a fine mesh of lanes and field lines rather than empty space. Northwest of the town the land flattens toward Gorgan Bay and the long Miankaleh peninsula, one of the better-known wetland landscapes of the Caspian coast. Flat, ordered farmland meets an irregular mountain edge, which gives the composition a clear horizon line.

A Kord Kūy map poster works best at a scale that keeps both edges in view: the compact centre, the road corridor running east to west, and the change in texture where cultivated land gives way to forest. In black and white, the density of the older streets stands out against the pattern of fields, and the mountain front becomes a soft, broken border along the bottom of the frame.