Geography of Iran

Northern Jungles/Rain forest of Iran

The Iranian landscape is predominantly mountainous, with high contrasting green oases. (Image was taken in the southern Alborz range near Firouzkuh)

The Geography of Iran contains mountains, rivers as well as plain land. Iran is a country of Southwest Asia, it borders the Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf, and the Caspian Sea, between Iraq and Pakistan. Iran is one of the world's most mountainous countries.

Iran has an area of 1,648,000 square kilometres and is the sixteenth largest in size. Iran is bordered to the north by Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan. The border with these countries are more than 2,000 kilometres long and includes nearly 650 kilometres of water along the southern shore of the Caspian Sea.

Iran's western borders are with Turkey in the north and Iraq in the south, ending at the Shatt al Arab (which Iranians call the Arvand Rud). The Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman littorals form the southern border (1,770 kilometres). To the east lie Afghanistan on the north and Pakistan on the south. The distance from the Iran's border with Azerbaijan in the north-west to the border with Pakistan in the south-east is about 2,333 kilometres.

Geography Of Iran Media

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  A map showing Iran's cities and main towns. This map's source is here, with the uploader's modifications, and the GMT homepage says that the tools are released under the GNU General Public License.

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  Iran map of Köppen climate classification zones

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  Projection: Custom*Sources: CGIAR-CSI SRTM v4.1 (90m); Natural Earth Data;

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  Comparing map, Night lights of Iran and The map including cities names.

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  Geographic map of Iran. Limits of the map:

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  Mount Damavand. Photo by Klaus Thymann, 2014.

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  Iran climate map showing locations of province capitals

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  Map of biotopes of Iran*     Forest steppe*     Forests and woodlands*     Semi-desert*     Desert lowlands*     Steppe*     Salted alluvial marshes

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  Iranian provinces' contribution to GDP. Tehran host 45% of Iran's industries.

Other websites

• Iran in Maps - BBC (population, land, infrastructure)
• "Persia (Iran), Afghanistan and Baluchistan" is an old map from 1897 of Persia, also known as Iran