Middle East
Iran
Central Iran

Tehran

Tehran Province is a province in . It covers on area of 18,909 km² and is located to the north of the central plateau of Iran. This province has common borders with the Mazandaran province from north, Qom province from south, Semnan province from east and Qazvin province from west.
Tap on a place
to explore it
Wikivoyage
Wikipedia
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.

Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Tehran and Ray.

Photo: Sasan Geranmehr, CC BY 3.0.
, is the capital city of . A bustling metropolis of 14 million people, it sits at the foot of the towering Alborz mountain range. is a cosmopolitan city, with great museums, parks, restaurants, and warm friendly people.

is the oldest existing city of Tehran Province in . It is best known for being the birthplace of Abbasid caliph, Harun al-Rashid.

Photo: Mahdi Kalhor, CC BY 3.0.
is a city in the Central District of County, Tehran province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Damavand and Dizin.

Photo: A.H Mansouri, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city in the Central District of County, Tehran province, , serving as capital of both the county and the district.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a ski resort north of . The highest ski lift reaches 3,600 m, making it one of the 40 highest ski resorts in the world. Popular with rich Iranians form north Tehran on the weekend but during the week it is barely visited.

Photo: Koenigf, CC BY 3.0.
is a village in with a popular ski resort. It is north-east of in the Alborz mountain range. is the second largest ski area in Iran after and came into operation in 1958.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.

Tehran

Latitude of center
35.6667° or 35° 40′ north
Longitude of center
51.4167° or 51° 25′ east
Population
13,300,000
Elevation
1,127 metres (3,698 feet)
Geo­Names ID
110791
Wiki­data ID
Q590866
This page is based on GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover Tehran from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
© Stadia Maps, Airbus DS, CNES, PlanetObserver, and Copernicus

In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Tehran” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Propinsi Tehran”
  • Achinese: “Propinsi Tèhran”
  • Afrikaans: “Teheran Provinsie”
  • Arabic: “إستان طهران”
  • Arabic: “طهران”
  • Arabic: “محافظة طهران”
  • Armenian: “Թեհրանի նահանգ”
  • Asturian: “Provincia de Teḥrán”
  • Avaric: “Тегьран (остан)”
  • Avaric: “Тегьран”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tehran ostanı”
  • Basque: “Teheran”
  • Basque: “Teherango probintzia”
  • Belarusian: “астан Тэгеран”
  • Belarusian: “Тэгеран”
  • Bengali: “তেহরন প্রদেশ”
  • Bosnian: “Teheranska pokrajina”
  • Bulgarian: “Техеран”
  • Catalan: “província de Teheran”
  • Catalan: “Província de Teheran”
  • Cebuano: “Teheran”
  • Cebuano: “Tehrān”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای تاران”
  • Chechen: “ТехӀран (остан)”
  • Chechen: “ТехӀран”
  • Chinese: “Tehran Séng”
  • Chinese: “德黑兰省”
  • Chinese: “德黑蘭省”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Tehran ostanı”
  • Croatian: “Teheran”
  • Croatian: “Teheranska pokrajina”
  • Czech: “Teherán”
  • Danish: “Teheran”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Tehran”
  • Dutch: “Teheran”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “طهران”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Teherano”
  • Esperanto: “Teherana provinco”
  • Estonian: “Teherani provints”
  • Finnish: “Teheran”
  • Finnish: “Tehrān”
  • French: “Province de Téhéran”
  • French: “Téhéran”
  • Galician: “Provincia de Teherán”
  • Georgian: “თეირანი”
  • Georgian: “თეირანის ოსტანი”
  • German: “Teheran”
  • Gilaki: “استان تهران”
  • Gilaki: “تئران ٚ اۊستان”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία Τεχεράνης”
  • Greek: “Τεχράν”
  • Gujarati: “તેહરાન પ્રાંત”
  • Hebrew: “טהראן”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז טהראן”
  • Hebrew: “פרובינציית טהראן”
  • Hindi: “तेहरान प्रांत”
  • Hungarian: “Teherán tartomány”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Teheran”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Tehran”
  • Irish: “Cúige Tehran”
  • Italian: “provincia di Teheran”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Teheran”
  • Japanese: “テヘラン州”
  • Kannada: “ಟೆಹ್ರಾನ್ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Tehran”
  • Korean: “테헤란주”
  • Kurdish: “Tehran”
  • Latin: “Teheranum”
  • Latvian: “Teherāna”
  • Latvian: “Teherānas ostāns”
  • Lithuanian: “Teherano provincija”
  • Macedonian: “Техеран”
  • Malagasy: “Faritanin‘ i Teheran”
  • Malagasy: “Faritanin’ i Teheran”
  • Malay: “Teheran”
  • Malayalam: “ടെഹ്‌റാൻ പ്രവിശ്യ”
  • Maori: “Teherane Porowini”
  • Maori: “Tehran Porowini”
  • Marathi: “तेहरान प्रांत”
  • Mazanderani: “تهران اوستان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tehran Séng”
  • Mingrelian: “თეირანიშ ოსტანი”
  • Newari: “तेहरान प्रान्त”
  • Northern Luri: “آستون تیرو”
  • Northern Sami: “Teherana provinsa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Teheran”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Teheran-provinsen”
  • Norwegian: “Teheran”
  • Ossetian: “Тæхран (остан)”
  • Ossetian: “Тæхран”
  • Persian: “استان تهران”
  • Persian: “تهران”
  • Polish: “Teheran”
  • Portuguese: “Teerã”
  • Portuguese: “Teerão”
  • Pushto: “تهران ولايت”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Teheran”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Tehran”
  • Russian: “остан Тегеран”
  • Russian: “Тегеран”
  • Scots: “Tehran Province”
  • Serbian: “Покрајина Техеран”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Teheranska pokrajina”
  • Sinhala: “ටෙහ්රාන් පළාත”
  • Slovak: “Teherán”
  • Slovenian: “Provinca Teheran”
  • Slovenian: “Teheran”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تهران اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Teherán”
  • Spanish: “Teheran”
  • Spanish: “Teherán”
  • Swedish: “Teheran”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Teherán”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Tehrān”
  • Tajik: “Устони Теҳрон”
  • Tamil: “தெகுரான் மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “தெஹ்ரான் மாகாணம்”
  • Tatar: “Тәһран (устан)”
  • Tatar: “Тәһран”
  • Telugu: “టెహ్రాన్ ప్రావిన్స్”
  • Telugu: “టెహ్రాన్ రాష్ట్రభాగం”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดเตหะราน”
  • Turkish: “Tahran Eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Tahran”
  • Uighur: “تېھران ۋىلايىتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Тегеран”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ تہران”
  • Uzbek: “Tehron ustoni”
  • Venetian: “Provincia de Tehran”
  • Vietnamese: “Tehran”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tehran”
  • Welsh: “Tehran”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ تہران”
  • Wu Chinese: “德黑兰省”
  • Yue Chinese: “德黑蘭省”

Central Iran: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Isfahan, Shiraz, Qom, and Persepolis.

Explore These Curated Destinations

Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.
About Mapcarta. 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 “Tehran”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.