Question: What Azerbaijani freeway has a distance of over 300 miles and originates in a city with a population of 8.7 million ?

text: Azerbaijan (Iran)
Transportation -- Roads
A network of Iranian national roads connects cities and populated areas of Azerbaijan to each other and to other parts of Iran . The only freeway in Azerbaijan is Freeway 2 ( Iran ) which connects Tabriz to Tehran and it is planned to construct rest of the freeway up to Iran-Turkey border at Bazargan . Other roads and highways include Road 32 ( Iran ) which connects Tehran to Tabriz and continues to Iran-Turkey border at Bazargan . Here is a list and map of roads that pass through Azerbaijan .
The name Azerbaijan itself is derived from Atropates, the Persian Satrap (governor) of Medea in the Achaemenid empire, who ruled a region found in modern Iranian Azerbaijan called Atropatene. Atropates name is believed to be derived from the Old Persian roots meaning protected by fire. The name is also mentioned in the Avestan Frawardin Yasht: âterepâtahe ashaonô fravashîm ýazamaide which translates literally to: We worship the Fravashi of the holy Atare-pata. According to the Encyclopaedia of Islam: In Middle Persian the name of the province was called Āturpātākān, older new-Persian Ādharbādhagān (آذربادگان/آذرآبادگان), Ādharbāyagān, at present Āzerbāydjān/Āzarbāydjān, Greek Atropatíni (᾿Ατροπατήνη), Byzantine Greek Adravigánon (᾿Αδραβιγάνων), Armenian Atrpatakan, Syriac Adhorbāyghān. The name Atropat in Middle Persian was transformed to Adharbad and is connected with Zoroastrianism. A famous Zoroastrian priest by the name Adarbad Mahraspandan is well known for his counsels. Azerbaijan, due to its numerous fire-temples has also been quoted in a variety of historic sources as being the birthplace of the prophet Zoroaster although modern scholars have not yet reached an agreement on the location of his birth. With Qajar Iran being forced to cede to Imperial Russia its Caucasian territories north of the Aras River (that is, modern-day Georgia, Dagestan, Armenia, and the Republic of Azerbaijan) during the course of the 19th century, through the treaties of Gulistan (1813) and Turkmenchay (1828), vast amounts of soil were irrevocably lost. Following the disintegration of the Russian Empire in 1917, as well as the short-lived Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic, in 1918, the leading Musavat government adopted the name Azerbaijan for the newly established Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, which was proclaimed on May 27, 1918, for political reasons, even though the name of Azerbaijan had always been used to refer to the adjacent region of contemporary northwestern Iran. Thus, until 1918, when the Musavat regime decided to name the newly independent state Azerbaijan, this designation had been used exclusively to identify the Iranian province of Azerbaijan.
type Number Road Distance ( km ) Distance ( mi ) City of Origin City of Destination
Freeways Freeway 2 ( Iran ) 600 370 Tehran Tabriz ( Az )
Highways and Roads Road 11 ( Iran ) 325 202 Jolfa ( Az ) Baneh
Highways and Roads Road 12 ( Iran ) 572 355 Bazargan ( Az ) Bileh Savar ( Az )
Highways and Roads Road 14 ( Iran ) 460 290 Razi , Ardabil ( Az ) Salmas ( Az )
Highways and Roads Road 16 ( Iran ) 428 266 Astara Serow ( Az )
Highways and Roads Road 21 ( Iran ) 978 608 Ilam Jolfa ( Az )
Highways and Roads Road 22 ( Iran ) 428 266 Sarakhs Khalkhal ( Az )
Highways and Roads Road 23 ( Iran ) 390 240 Miandoab ( Az ) Hamadan
Highways and Roads Road 24 ( Iran ) 142 88 Hashtrud ( Az ) Bonab ( Az )
Highways and Roads Road 26 ( Iran ) 151 94 Miandoab ( Az ) Piranshahr ( Az )
Highways and Roads Road 27 ( Iran ) 245 152 Khomarlu ( Az ) Tabriz ( Az )
Highways and Roads Road 31 ( Iran ) 539 335 Parsabad ( Az ) Manjil
Highways and Roads Road 32 ( Iran ) 880 550 Tehran Bazargan ( Az )
Highways and Roads Road 33 ( Iran ) 155 96 Ardabil ( Az ) Bileh Savar ( Az )
Highways and Roads Road 35 ( Iran ) 155 96 Zanjan ( Az ) Khorramabad