Gonbad-e Kavus

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Gonbad-e Kāvus (Persian: گنبد کاووس‎‎) (Turkmen: Kümmet Gawüz) is the city known historically as Gorgan/Hyrcania. The modern name, meaning "the tower of Kavus", is a reference to the most imposing ancient monument in the city. The historic name cannot now be restored, as it was oddly and carelessly assigned to the neighboring historical city of Astarabad in the 1930s by the Iranian Government. At one point, it was even known as the city of Dashte Gorgan, meaning "the Plains of Gorgan".

It is the capital of Gonbad-e Kavus County, in the province of Golestān in the northeast of Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 127,167, in 30,710 families.

It is predominantly an ethnically Turkmen city, Turkmen being the spoken language, but with substantial minority of Azeris and other smaller Iranian people.

The city is famous for its historic brick tower of the same name.