Iran Cities

City Introduction The capital city of Semnan Province, the city is located in south of Alborz mountain range and the north of Dasht-e Kavir, with dry, moderate climate, warm summers and cool winters. Language base of Semnan/ island of accents was derived from Pahlavi, the ancient language of Parthian. This province covers an area of...Read More

City Introduction It is one of 31 provinces of Iran, with the centrality of Gorgan, located in the north-east of the country and south of Caspian Sea; the majority population of which, are Sunni Muslims. Getting separated off from the province of Mazandaran (1997), by the year 2011 it had a population of 1.7 million...Read More

City Introduction One of the 31 provinces of Iran (with Ilam Center), located in the western part of the country, which have 425 kilometers of borders with Iraq, Kermanshah, Lorestan, and Khuzestan. With 580,158 population (2016 census), this province is the least populous ones of Iran. Geography Covering an area of 20,150 km2 (4.1 percent...Read More

World Heritage Sites of Iran UNESCO/ United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage. Iran accepted the UNESCO Convention on 26 February 1975, as, on 2019, twenty-four sites in Iran were included: Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran Located in the East Azerbaijan province, it...Read More

City Introduction A province of western Iran in the Zagros Mountains, with a population of around 1,716,527 people (2006), Lorestan covers an area of 28,392 km2. Stretched along the Zagros mountain range and veiled with wheat fields and oak trees, Lorestan contains rare mountains, mysterious canyons and eye-catching waterfalls, to justify its visitors what are...Read More

City Introduction Kerman city (the capital of Kerman Province) according to the 2011 census had a population of 821,394 people, in 221,389 households, which had made it the 10th most populous city of Iran. As the largest and most developed city in Kerman Province and the most important city in the southeast of Iran, Kerman...Read More

Naqsh-e Rostam An impressive necropolis standing about 12 km northwest of Persepolis, in Fars Province which reminds us the famous and powerful Achaemenid Empire of Persia. Standing a few hundred meters from Naqsh-e Rajab with a further four Sassanid rock reliefs, it is the remainder of Achaemenid Rulers, containing a group of ancient Iranian Rock...Read More

City Introduction The name Balūchestān means “Land of the Balōch”, reffering to the majority Baloch people who are inhabiting the province; Sistan that later was added to the name, refers to the minority Persian peoples who speak the Sistani dialect of Persian.After Kerman Province, it is now the second largest province of the 31 provinces...Read More

City Introduction Ahvaz, the capital of Khuzestan Province (southwest of Iran), with a population of about 1,300,000, it is home to Persians, Arabs, Bakhtiaris, Dezfulis, Shushtaris, etc, with different languages current over there.The city’s middle part is best decorated with Iran’s only navigable river, Karun. With a long history dating back to the Achaemenid period,...Read More