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Alborz

Alborz Province is in . Alborz Province is one of the 31 provinces of Iran, centered in Karaj. It was formed by division of Tehran Province into two provinces, after the Parliamentary approval on June 23, 2010, and was introduced as 31st province of Iran.
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is a city in the Central District of County, Alborz province, , serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. Earliest evidence of inhabitation in can be dated to the Bronze Age at Tepe Khurvin.

is a city in the Central District of County, Alborz province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. The city is well-known for growing fruit for .

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Taleqan is located northwest of the Alborz Province as one of its 6 major citiesand the center of Taleqan county. Its population may vary between 5 and 12000 in different seasons.

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is one of 6 major cities of Alborz Province and the center of county.

Alborz

Latitude of center
35.9413° or 35° 56′ 29″ north
Longitude of center
50.7884° or 50° 47′ 18″ east
Population
2,710,000
Elevation
1,730 metres (5,676 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 791264036
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
7648907
Wiki­data ID
Q392522
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Alborz” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “البرز”
  • Arabic: “محافظة ألبرز”
  • Arabic: “محافظة البرز”
  • Armenian: “Ալբորզ”
  • Armenian: “Ալբորզի նահանգ”
  • Asturian: “Provincia d’Elburz”
  • Avaric: “Альборз”
  • Azerbaijani: “Elburs vilayəti”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əlburs ostanı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əlburz ostanı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əlbürz ostanı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əlburz”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əlbürz”
  • Basque: “Alborz”
  • Belarusian: “Альборз”
  • Bengali: “আলবুর্জ প্রদেশ”
  • Bulgarian: “Алборз”
  • Catalan: “província d’Alborz”
  • Catalan: “Província d’Alborz”
  • Cebuano: “Alborz (lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Alborz”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای ئەلبورز”
  • Chechen: “Альборз”
  • Chinese: “Alborz Séng”
  • Chinese: “厄尔布尔士省”
  • Chinese: “厄爾布爾士省”
  • Croatian: “Alborška pokrajina”
  • Croatian: “Alborz”
  • Czech: “Alborz”
  • Danish: “Alborz Province”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Elbruz (eyalet)”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Elbruz”
  • Dutch: “Alborz”
  • Esperanto: “Alborzo”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Alborz”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Alborzo”
  • Estonian: “Alborzi provints”
  • Finnish: “Ālborz”
  • French: “Alborz”
  • French: “Province d’Alborz”
  • Galician: “Provincia de Alborz”
  • Georgian: “ალბორზის ოსტანი”
  • German: “Albors”
  • German: “Alborz”
  • Gilaki: “ألبۊرز ٚ اۊستان”
  • Greek: “Αλμπόρτζ”
  • Gujarati: “આલ્બોર્ઝ પ્રાંત”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ak-ngì-pu-ngì-sṳ-sén”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Alborz-sén”
  • Hebrew: “אלבורז”
  • Hebrew: “פרובינציית אלבורז”
  • Hindi: “अल्बोर्ज़ प्रांत”
  • Hungarian: “Alborz tartomány”
  • Hungarian: “Alborz”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Alborz”
  • Italian: “Alborz”
  • Italian: “provincia di Alborz”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Alborz”
  • Japanese: “アルボルズ州”
  • Kannada: “ಅಲ್ಬೋರ್ಜ್ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
  • Korean: “알보르즈주”
  • Kurdish: “Elborz (parêzgeh)”
  • Kurdish: “Elborz”
  • Kurdish: “Elburz”
  • Latin: “Ariobarzanes”
  • Latvian: “Alborzas ostāns”
  • Latvian: “Elbursa ostāns”
  • Lithuanian: “Alborzo provincija”
  • Lithuanian: “Elburso provincija”
  • Macedonian: “Алборз”
  • Malagasy: “Faritanin‘ i Alborz”
  • Malagasy: “Faritanin’ i Alborz”
  • Malay: “Alborz Province”
  • Maori: “Alborz Porowini”
  • Marathi: “आल्बोर्ज प्रांत”
  • Mazanderani: “استان البرز”
  • Mazanderani: “البرز اوستان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Alborz Séng”
  • Mongolian: “Альборз муж”
  • Northern Luri: “آستون البرز”
  • Northern Sami: “Alborza provinsa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alborz”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alborz-provinsen”
  • Norwegian: “Alborz”
  • Ossetian: “Альборз”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਲਬੁਰਜ਼ ਸੂਬਾ”
  • Persian: “استان البرز”
  • Persian: “استان کرج”
  • Persian: “البرز”
  • Polish: “Alborz”
  • Portuguese: “Alborz”
  • Pushto: “البرز ولايت”
  • Russian: “Альборз”
  • Scots: “Alborz Province”
  • Serbian: “Покрајина Алборз”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alborška pokrajina”
  • Sinhala: “අල්බොරෝස් පළාත”
  • Slovenian: “Alborz”
  • Slovenian: “Provinca Alborz”
  • South Azerbaijani: “البورز اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Elburz”
  • Swedish: “Alborz”
  • Tajik: “Устони Албурз”
  • Tamil: “அல்போர்சு மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “அல்போன்ஸ் மாகாணம்”
  • Tatar: “Әлбурз”
  • Telugu: “ఆల్బోర్జ్ ప్రావిన్స్”
  • Telugu: “ఆల్బోర్జ్ రాష్ట్రభాగం”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดแอลโบร์ซ”
  • Turkish: “Elburz Eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Elburz”
  • Uighur: “ئەلبورز ۋىلايىتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Альборз”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ البرز”
  • Uzbek: “Alborz viloyati”
  • Uzbek: “Alburz ustoni”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Alborz”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alborz”
  • Welsh: “Talaith Alborz”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ البرز”
  • Wu Chinese: “厄尔布尔士省”
  • Yue Chinese: “厄爾布爾士省”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Alborz”. Photo: Alireza Javaheri, CC BY 3.0.