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| 1 | Mashhad ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 981 Lat/Lng : 36.2958 / 59.6119 | Mashhad , also spelled Mashad or Meshad, is the second most populous city in Iran and the capital of Razavi Khorasan Province. It is located in the northeast of the country, near the borders with Turkmenistan and Afghanistan (...) | |
| 2 | Qazvin ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1305 Lat/Lng : 36.2744 / 50.005 | Qazvin (; , , also Romanized as Qazvīn, Caspin, Qazwin, or Ghazvin) is the largest city and capital of the Province of Qazvin in Iran. Qazvin was a medieval capital of the Safavid dynasty for over forty years (1555-1598) and nowadays is known as the calligraphy capital of Iran (...) | |
| 3 | Qom ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 931 Lat/Lng : 34.6439 / 50.8783 | Qom is the seventh metropolis amar.org.ir Retrieved 19 Oct 2018 and also the seventh largest city in Iran. worldatlas.com Retrieved 21 Oct 2018 Qom is the capital of Qom Province; and its distance to the south of Tehran is 140 km. yjc (...) | |
| 4 | Qazvin Province ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 1302 Lat/Lng : 36.2693 / 50.0029 | The Qazvin Province (Ostān-e Qazvīn) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. It is in the north-west of the country, and its center is the city of Qazvin. The province was created in 1993 out of part of Tehran Province (...) | |
| 5 | Rey, Iran ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1058 Lat/Lng : 35.5917 / 51.4386 | Rey or Ray (; , Šahr-e Rey, “City of Ray”), also known as Rhages (; , or Europos Rhagai; or Rhaganae) and formerly as Arsacia, is the capital of Rey County in Tehran Province of Iran, and the oldest existing city in the province. Ray today has been absorbed into the Greater Tehran metropolitan area (...) | |
| 6 | Iran ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1188 Lat/Lng : 35.7 / 51.4167 | Iran , also known as Persia , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Western Asia. With over 81 million inhabitants, Iran is the world's 18th-most-populous country. Comprising a land area of , it is the second-largest country in the Middle East and the 17th-largest in the world (...) | |
| 7 | Imam Reza shrine ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 983 Lat/Lng : 36.288 / 59.6159 | The Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, Iran is a complex which contains the mausoleum of Imam Reza, the eighth Imam of Twelver Shiites. It is the largest mosque in the world by area. Also contained within the complex are the Goharshad Mosque, a museum, a library, four seminaries, a cemetery, the Razavi (...) | |
| 8 | Goharshad Mosque ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 982 Lat/Lng : 36.2874 / 59.6147 | Goharshad Mosque is a former free standing mosque in Mashhad of the Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran, which now serves as one of the prayer halls within the Imam Reza shrine complex. (...) | |
| 9 | Semnan, Iran ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1131 Lat/Lng : 35.5728 / 53.3972 | Semnan (; , also Romanized as Semnān and Samnān) is the capital city of Semnan Province, Iran. Its population was 153,680 people and 36,298 families as of the 2011 census. Semnan is located 216 kilometers east of Tehran in north central Iran (...) | |
| 10 | Fatima Masumeh Shrine ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 936 Lat/Lng : 34.6418 / 50.8792 | The Shrine of Fatima Masumeh is located in Qom, which is considered by Shia Muslims to be the second most sacred city in Iran after Mashhad. Fatima Masumeh was the sister of the eighth Imam Reza and the daughter of the seventh Imam Musa al-Kadhim (Tabari 60) (...) | |
| 11 | Amol ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 97 Lat/Lng : 36.4675 / 52.3506 | Amol (– ; ; also Romanized as Āmol and Amul) is a city and the administrative center of Amol County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. In the 2006 census, the surveyed population of the city was 197,470, in 55,183 families. Amol is located on the Haraz river bank (...) | |
| 12 | Kerman ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1762 Lat/Lng : 30.2839 / 57.0725 | Kerman (also Romanized as Kermān, Kermun, and Kirman; also known as Carmania) is the capital city of Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2011 census, its population was 821,374, in 221,389 households, making it the 10th most populous city of Iran (...) | |
| 13 | Shah-Abdol-Azim shrine ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1056 Lat/Lng : 35.5857 / 51.4354 | The Shāh Abdol Azīm Shrine , also known as Shabdolazim, iribnews.ir aparat.com mashreghnews.ir located in Rey, Iran, contains the tomb of ‘Abdul ‘Adhīm ibn ‘Abdillāh al-Hasanī (aka. Shah Abdol Azim). Shah Abdol Azim was a fifth generation descendant of Hasan ibn ‘Alī and a companion of Muhammad (...) | |
| 14 | Tomb of Ferdowsi ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1002 Lat/Lng : 36.4861 / 59.5175 | Tomb of Ferdowsi is a tomb complex composed of a white marble base, and a decorative edifice erected in honor of the Persian poet Ferdowsi located in Tus, Iran, in Razavi Khorasan province. It was built in the early 1930s, under the Reza Shah, and uses mainly elements of Achaemenid architecture to (...) | |
| 15 | Ferdowsi University of Mashhad ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 1039 Lat/Lng : 36.3076 / 59.5269 | Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM) is a university in Northeastern Iran named after the great epic poet Ferdowsi who is the author of Shahnameh. The FUM campus is in Mashhad, the capital city of the Razavi Khorasan province, which is most famous and revered for housing the tomb of Imam Reza, the (...) | |
| 16 | Imam Reza Stadium ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1004 Lat/Lng : 36.3256 / 59.57 | The Imam Reza Stadium is an all-seated football stadium located in Mashhad, Iran. The stadium has a seating capacity of 27,700http://stadiumdb.com/stadiums/irn/imam_reza_stadium and is the sixth biggest stadium in Iran. It will host some matches of Iran national football team (...) | |
| 17 | Shahshahan mausoleum ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1575 Lat/Lng : 32.6711 / 51.6836 | Shahshahan Mausoleum is a historical mausoleum in Isfahan, Iran. It is located beside Jameh mosque and is the burial place of a famous Sufi of Isfahan, Shah Alaeddin Mohammad. According to the date of Shah Alaeddin's death, which was in the December 1446, the mausoleum was built between 1446 and (...) | |