Iran
Iran is a vast, multifaceted country of 88 million at the crossroads of Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Indian Ocean.
Cities & regions
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Ahvaz is the capital of Khuzestan Province in southwestern Iran, a hot lowland city of oil refineries, steel plants and date palms sitting just 18 metres abo…
Open guideBandar Abbas is the capital of Hormozgan province and Iran's largest and oldest working port, spread over about 316 square kilometres along the Strait of Hor…
Open guideHamadan (Hamedan) sits at about 1,850 metres in the Zagros mountains of western Iran, beneath the 3,500-metre bulk of Mount Alvand, roughly 320 km southwest…
Open guideIsfahan (Esfahan) is Iran's great Safavid capital in the centre of the country, on the Zayandeh River about 340 km south of Tehran. The Persian saying 'Isfah…
Open guideNishapur (Neyshabur) is a city of roughly 220,000 people in Razavi Khorasan province in northeastern Iran, sitting on a fertile plain beneath the Binalud mou…
Open guideRasht is the capital of Gilan province and the largest city on Iran's Caspian coast, sitting on a green rice-growing plain between the Alborz mountains and t…
Open guideUrmia (Orumiyeh) is the capital of West Azerbaijan province in Iran's far northwest, sitting at about 1,332 metres on a fertile plain between Lake Urmia and…
Open guideYazd is a mud-brick desert city in central Iran, sitting between the Dasht-e Kavir and Dasht-e Lut deserts roughly halfway between Isfahan and Kerman. Its hi…
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