Tehran
Tehran, is the capital city of Iran. A bustling metropolis of 14 million people, it sits at the foot of the towering Alborz mountain range.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Sasan Geranmehr, CC BY 3.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Babak Farrokhi, CC BY 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Golestan Palace
Photo: Miladpoorali, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Golestan Palace, also transliterated as the Gulistan Palace and sometimes translated as the Rose Garden Palace from Persian language, was built in the 16th century, renovated in the 18th century and finally rebuilt in 1865.
Retail shop
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Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is sale to business or institutional customers.
Tehran Museum Of Comtemporary Art
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, also known as TMoCA, is among the largest art museums in Tehran and Iran.
Localities in the Area
Tehran
- Type: City with 8,690,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Iran
- Categories: capital city, city of Iran, metropolis, global city, million city, big city and locality
- Location: Tehran, Central Iran, Iran, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.6893° or 35° 41' 21" northLongitude
51.3896° or 51° 23' 23" eastPopulation
8,690,000Elevation
1,178 metres (3,865 feet)IATA airport code
THRUnited Nations Location Code
IR THROpen Location Code
8H7HM9QQ+PROpenStreetMap ID
node 25960293OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
112931Wikidata ID
Q3616Tehran Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Ṭehran
- Achinese: Tehran
- Achinese: Tèhran
- Adyghe: Тегеран
- Afar: Tegeran
- Afrikaans: Teheran
- Akan: Tehran
- Albanian: Teherani
- Amharic: ቴህራን
- Angika: तेहरान
- Arabic: Tehran
- Arabic: تهران
- Arabic: طهران
- Aragonese: Teherán
- Armenian: Թեհրան
- Assamese: তেহৰাণ
- Assamese: তেহৰান
- Asturian: Teḥrán
- Avaric: Тегьран
- Awadhi: तेहरान
- Azerbaijani: Tehran
- Balinese: Téhéran
- Bashkir: Тегеран
- Bashkir: Тәһран
- Basque: Teheran
- Bavarian: Teheran
- Belarusian: Тэгеран
- Bengali: তেহরান
- Bosnian: Teheran
- Brahui: Taerán
- Breton: Tehran
- Bulgarian: Техеран
- Burmese: တီဟီရန်မြို့
- Catalan: Teheran
- Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Teheran
- Central Bikol: Tehran
- Central Kurdish: تاران
- Chechen: Тегеран
- Chechen: ТехӀран
- Chinese: Tehran
- Chinese: 德黑兰
- Chinese: 德黑蘭/德黑兰
- Chinese: 德黑蘭
- Chuvash: Тегеран
- Cornish: Tehran
- Crimean Tatar: Tehran
- Croatian: Teheran
- Czech: Teherán
- Danish: Teheran
- Dimli (individual language): Tehran
- Dotyali: तेहरान
- Dutch: Teheran
- Eastern Mari: Тегеран
- Egyptian Arabic: طهران
- English: Teheran
- English: Ṭihrán
- Erzya: Тегеран ош
- Esperanto: Teheran
- Esperanto: Teherano
- Esperanto: Tehrano
- Estonian: Teheran
- Extremaduran: Teherán
- Faroese: Teheran
- Faroese: Tehran
- Fiji Hindi: Tehran
- Finnish: Teheran
- Finnish: Tehran
- French: Téhéran
- Gagauz: Tahran
- Galician: Teherán
- Galician: تئران
- Georgian: თეირანი
- German: Teheran
- Gilaki: تئران
- Greek: Τεχεράνη
- Guarani: Teerã
- Gujarati: તેહરાન
- Haitian: Teheran
- Hakka Chinese: Tehran
- Hausa: Tehran
- Hebrew: טהראן
- Hebrew: טהרן
- Hebrew: תהראן
- Hindi: तेहरान
- Hungarian: Teherán
- Icelandic: Teheran
- Ido: Tehran
- Iloko: Tehran
- Inari Sami: Teheran
- Indonesian: Teheran
- Ingush: Тегеран
- Interlingua: Tehran
- Interlingue: Teheran
- Irish: Teheran
- Irish: Tehran
- Irish: Tehrān
- Italian: Teheran
- Japanese: テヘラン
- Javanese: Teheran
- Kabardian: Дыхьэрэн
- Kabiyè: Teeraŋ
- Kabyle: Ṭehran
- Kalaallisut: Tehran
- Kannada: ತೆಹ್ರಾನ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Tehran
- Kashmiri: تہران
- Kazakh: Тегеран
- Kazakh: Техран
- Kazakh: Теһран
- Kirghiz: Тегеран
- Kirghiz: Тегеран шаары
- Kongo: Teheran
- Korean: 테헤란
- Kurdish: Taran
- Kurdish: Tehran
- Ladin: Teheran
- Lao: Tehran
- Latin: Teheranum
- Latvian: Teherāna
- Lezghian: Тегьран
- Ligurian: Teheran
- Limburgan: Teheran
- Lingua Franca Nova: Teran
- Literary Chinese: 德黑蘭
- Lithuanian: Teheranas
- Livvi: Tegeran
- Lombard: Teheran
- Low German: Teheran
- Luxembourgish: Teheran
- Macedonian: Техеран
- Malagasy: Teheran
- Malay: Teheran
- Malay: Tehran
- Malayalam: ടെഹ്റാൻ
- Maltese: Teheran
- Maltese: Tehran
- Maori: Tehran
- Marathi: तेहरान
- Mazanderani: تهران
- Mazanderani: تهرون
- Mazanderani: تیرون
- Mazanderani: طهران
- Min Dong Chinese: Tehran
- Min Nan Chinese: Tehran
- Minangkabau: Teheran
- Minangkabau: Tehran
- Mingrelian: თეირანი
- Moksha: Тэгран
- Moksha: Тэгэран
- Mongolian: Тегеран
- Moroccan Arabic: طهران
- Navajo: Dziłtsį́į́kʼeh
- Neapolitan: Teheran
- Nepali: तेहरान
- Newari: तेरां (नगर), इरान
- Newari: तेहरान
- Northern Frisian: Teheraan
- Northern Luri: تیرو
- Northern Sami: Teheran
- Norwegian: Teheran
- Norwegian Bokmål: Teheran
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Teheran
- Novial: Teran
- Nyanja: Tehran
- Occitan (post 1500): Teheran
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܛܗܪܐܢ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Teheran
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Tehran
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Tehrān
- Oriya: ତେହେରାନ
- Ossetian: Тæхран
- Panjabi: ਤਹਿਰਾਨ
- Papiamento: Teheran
- Persian: تهران
- Persian: تِهران
- Persian: تِهِرَن
- Piemontese: Teheran
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Tegeraan
- Polish: Teheran
- Portuguese: Teera
- Portuguese: Teerã
- Portuguese: Teerão
- Pushto: تهران
- Quechua: Tehran
- Romanian: Teheran
- Romansh: Teheran
- Russia Buriat: Тегеран
- Russian: Тегеран
- Russian: Техран
- Rusyn: Тегеран
- Samogitian: Teherans
- Santali: ᱛᱮᱦᱨᱟᱱ
- Sardinian: Teheran
- Scots: Tehran
- Scottish Gaelic: Tehran
- Serbian: Техеран
- Serbian: Техран
- Serbo-Croatian: Teheran
- Serbo-Croatian: Tehran
- Shona: Tehran
- Sicilian: Teheran
- Silesian: Teheran
- Sindhi: تهران
- Sinhala: ටෙහ්රාන්
- Sinhala: ටෙහෙරානය
- Sinhala: ටෙහෙරාන්
- Slovak: Teherán
- Slovenian: Teheran
- Somali: Tahraan
- South Azerbaijani: تئهران
- South Azerbaijani: تهران
- Spanish: Teheran
- Spanish: Teherán
- Swahili: Tehran
- Swedish: Teheran
- Swiss German: Teheran
- Tagalog: Teherán
- Tagalog: Tehrān
- Tajik: Теҳрон
- Talysh: Tehron
- Tamil: டேஹ்ரான்
- Tamil: தெகுரான்
- Tamil: தெஹ்ரான்
- Tatar: Тәһран
- Telugu: టెహరాన్
- Thai: เตหะราน
- Tibetan: ཏེ་ཧི་རན།
- Tibetan: ཏེ་ཧི་རན།
- Tosk Albanian: Teheran
- Turkish: Tahran
- Turkmen: Tähran
- Twi: Teheran
- Udmurt: Тегеран
- Uighur: تېھران
- Ukrainian: Тегеран
- Upper Sorbian: Teheran
- Urdu: تہران
- Uzbek: Tehron
- Venetian: Tehran
- Veps: Tehran
- Vietnamese: Tehran
- Vlax Romani: Tehran
- Volapük: Tehran
- Võro: Teheran
- Waray (Philippines): Tehran
- Welsh: Teherán
- Welsh: Tehran
- Western Armenian: Թեհրան
- Western Frisian: Teheran
- Western Panjabi: تہران
- Wolof: Tehran
- Wu Chinese: 德黑兰
- Yakut: Тегеран
- Yiddish: טעהראן
- Yoruba: Tehran
- Yue Chinese: 德黑蘭
- Teherane
Other Places Named Tehran
In the Area
- چهار راه کمالیNeighbourhood
- EskandariNeighbourhood
- AzarbayjanNeighbourhood
- District 11Suburb
- JamalzadehNeighbourhood
- Heshmat DawlahNeighbourhood
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Tehran. Photo: Sasan Geranmehr, CC BY 3.0.