Tehran Iran

Description: Tehran is the capital and largest city of Iran and also the largest city in Tehran Province. It also serves as the capital of the province, county and the Central District. With a population of around 9 million and 400 thousand in the city and around 16 million and 800 thousand in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, The Greater Tehran contains Towns example “New Town of Andisheh”, “Islam Shahr”, “Shahreh Qods”, “Shahryar”, “Pakdasht”, “Firooz Kooh” and “Shamiran”. Tehran is the most populous city in Iran and Western Asia, and has the second-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East, after Cairo. It is ranked 24th in the world by metropolitan area population. Archaeological remains from the ancient city of Ray suggest that settlement in Tehran dates back over 6,000 years.

Population: 9,400,000

Demographics: With its cosmopolitan atmosphere, Tehran is home to diverse ethnic and linguistic groups from all over the country. The present-day dominant language of Tehran is the Tehrani variety of the Persian language, and the majority of people in Tehran identify themselves as Persians. However, before, the native language of the Tehran–Ray region was not Persian, which is linguistically Southwest Iranian and originates in Fars, but a now extinct Northwestern Iranian language. Iranian Azeris form the second-largest ethnic group of the city, comprising about 10-15% of the total population, while ethnic Mazanderanis are the third-largest, comprising about 5% of the total population. Tehran’s other ethnic communities include Kurds, Armenians, Georgians, Bakhtyaris, Talysh, Baloch, Assyrian, Arabs, Jews, and Circassians.

History: Tehran is in the historical Media region in northwestern Iran. By the time of the Median Empire, part of present-day Tehran was a suburb of the prominent Median city of Rhages which is mentioned as the 12th sacred place created by Ohrmazd. In Old Persian inscriptions, Rhages appears as a province (Bistun 2, 10–18). From Rhages, Darius I sent reinforcements to his father Hystaspes, who was putting down a rebellion in Parthia (Bistun 3, 1–10). Some Middle Persian texts give Rhages as the birthplace of Zoroaster, although modern historians generally place the birth of Zoroaster in Khorasan Province. In 641, during the reign of the Sasanian Empire, Yazdgerd III issued his last appeal to the nation from Rhages, before fleeing to Khorasan. In July 1404, Castilian ambassador Ruy González de Clavijo visited Tehran on a journey to Samarkand, the capital of Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur, the ruler of Iran at the time. He described it in his diary as an unwalled. Growing awareness of civil rights resulted in the Constitutional Revolution and the first constitution of Iran in 1906. region. From the 1920s to the 1930s, under the rule of Reza Shah, the city was essentially rebuilt from scratch. Several old buildings, including parts of the Golestan Palace, Tekye Dowlat, and Tupkhane Square, were replaced with modern buildings influenced by classical Iranian architecture, particularly the buildings of the National Bank, the police headquarters, the telegraph office, and the military academy. Changes to the urban fabric began with the street-widening act of 1933, which served as a framework for changes in all other cities. Tehran’s most famous landmark, the Azadi Tower, was built by the order of the Shah in 1971.

Elevation: 1040 m

Climate: Cold semi-arid climate. Average annual temperature in Tehran is 18 C (64 F), the average for July is 30 C (86 F), the average for January is 4 C (39 F).

Attractions: Golestan Palace, Tabiat Bridge, Tehran Grand Bazaar, Darband, National Museum Of Iran, Mount Tochal, Sadabaad Palace, Niavaran Historical Cultural Complex

Airports: Imam Khomeini International Airport IKA

Distance To City Centre: 55 km

Commute Length: 55 min

Average Cost: 50 EUR

Peak Times: 6am-9am, 4pm-7pm