Tehran

Tehran, is the capital city of . A bustling metropolis of 14 million people, it sits at the foot of the towering Alborz mountain range. Tehran is a cosmopolitan city, with great museums, parks, restaurants, and warm friendly people.
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  • City with 9,930,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 1,178 metres (3,865 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code THR
  • …is also known as “Ṭihrán”
  • Description: capital city of Iran
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Golestan Palace and National Museum of Iran.
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The is the former official royal Qajar complex in Tehran, .
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The houses the richest and…
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, also known…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Imam Khomeini Square and Gomrok.
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The also known as Toopkhaneh…
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Tehran is the capital and largest city of .
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is a neighborhood.

Tehran

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Latitude
35.6893° or 35° 41′ 21″ north
Longitude
51.3896° or 51° 23′ 23″ east
UN/LOCODE
IR THR
Open location code
8H7HM9QQ+PR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25960293
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
112931
Wiki­data ID
Q3616

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Tehran” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Tehran”
  • Achinese: “Tèhran”
  • Adyghe: “Тегеран”
  • Afrikaans: “Teheran”
  • Albanian: “Teherani”
  • Amharic: “ቴህራን”
  • Angika: “तेहरान”
  • Arabic: “تهران”
  • Arabic: “طهران”
  • Aragonese: “Teherán”
  • Armenian: “Թեհրան”
  • Assamese: “তেহৰাণ”
  • Asturian: “Teherán”
  • Asturian: “Tehrán”
  • Asturian: “Teḥrán”
  • Avaric: “Тегьран”
  • Awadhi: “तेहरान”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tehran”
  • Balinese: “Téhéran”
  • Banjar: “Teheran”
  • Bashkir: “Тәһран”
  • Bashkir: “Тегеран”
  • Basque: “Teheran”
  • Bavarian: “Teheran”
  • Belarusian: “Тэгеран”
  • Bengali: “তেহরান”
  • Bhojpuri: “तेहरान”
  • Bosnian: “Teheran”
  • Brahui: “Taerán”
  • Breton: “Tehran”
  • Bulgarian: “Техеран”
  • Burmese: “တီဟီရန်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Teheran”
  • Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Teheran”
  • Cebuano: “Tehrān”
  • Central Bikol: “Tehran”
  • Central Kanuri: “Tehran”
  • Central Kurdish: “تاران”
  • Chechen: “Тегеран”
  • Chechen: “ТехӀран”
  • 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”
  • Erzya: “Тегеран ош”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Iban: “Tehran”
  • Icelandic: “Teheran”
  • Ido: “Tehran”
  • Iloko: “Tehran”
  • Inari Sami: “Teheran”
  • Indonesian: “Teheran”
  • Indonesian: “Tehran”
  • Ingush: “Тегеран”
  • Interlingua: “Teheran”
  • Interlingua: “Tehran”
  • Interlingue: “Teheran”
  • Irish: “Teheran”
  • Irish: “Tehran”
  • 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”
  • Khmer: “តេហេរ៉ង់”
  • Kirghiz: “Тегеран шаары”
  • Kirghiz: “Тегеран”
  • Komering: “Teheran”
  • Kongo: “Teheran”
  • Korean: “테헤란”
  • Kurdish: “Taran”
  • Kurdish: “Tehran”
  • Ladin: “Teheran”
  • Lao: “ເຕເຮຣານ”
  • 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: “Tehran”
  • Maori: “Tehran”
  • Maori: “Terāna”
  • Marathi: “तेहरान”
  • Mazanderani: “تهران”
  • Mazanderani: “تهرون”
  • Mazanderani: “تیرون”
  • Mazanderani: “طهران”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “تهران”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “طهران”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Tehran”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tehran”
  • 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”
  • North Levantine Arabic: “طهران”
  • Northern Frisian: “Teheraan”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tehraan”
  • Northern Luri: “تیرو”
  • Northern Sami: “Teheran”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Teheran”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Teheran”
  • Norwegian: “Teheran”
  • Novial: “Teran”
  • Nyanja: “Tehran”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Teheran”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܛܗܪܐܢ”
  • 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: “طهران” (historical)
  • 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”
  • Sindhi: “تھران”
  • Sinhala: “ටෙහෙරානය”
  • Sinhala: “ටෙහෙරාන්”
  • Sinhala: “ටෙහ්රාන්”
  • Slovak: “Teherán”
  • Slovenian: “Teheran”
  • Somali: “Tahraan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تئهران”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تهران”
  • Spanish: “Teherán”
  • Swahili: “Tehran”
  • Swedish: “Teheran”
  • Swiss German: “Teheran”
  • Tagalog: “Teheran”
  • 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།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Tehran”
  • Turkish: “Tahran”
  • Turkmen: “Tähran”
  • Twi: “Teheran”
  • Udmurt: “Тегеран”
  • Uighur: “تېھران”
  • Ukrainian: “Тегеран”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Teheran”
  • Urdu: “تہران، ایران”
  • 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 Armenian: “Թէհրան”
  • Western Frisian: “Teheran”
  • Western Panjabi: “تہران”
  • Wolof: “Tehran”
  • Wu Chinese: “德黑兰”
  • Yakut: “Тегеран”
  • Yiddish: “טעהראן”
  • Yoruba: “Tehran”
  • Yue Chinese: “德黑蘭”
  • Zeeuws: “Teheran”
  • Zulu: “i-Tehran”
  • “ma tomo Telan”

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