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Atlas of Iran
اطلس ایران
A unified geographical view of Iran — its mountains, deserts, seas, and borders, the stage on which the land's history and civilization unfolded.
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- Main ranges
- Alborz & Zagros
- Central deserts
- Dasht-e Kavir & Dasht-e Lut
Detail
This section is the geographic atlas of Iran, offering an integrated overview of the country's physical and human landscape. Iran is a vast land of high plateau, the Alborz and Zagros mountain ranges, two great central deserts (the Dasht-e Kavir and the Dasht-e Lut), and coastlines along the Caspian Sea in the north and the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman in the south. This geographic diversity underlies the country's climatic, ethnic, and economic variety, and the atlas presents its provinces, cities, and natural features.
Related entities
Sources
- Encyclopaedia Iranica — 'Geography of Iran'
- Britannica — 'Iran: Land'
- National Cartographic Center of Iran