Tehran (irn)

Tehran

Tehran ranks 62nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Zagreb, Baltimore, and Atlanta. Memorable people born in Tehran include Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Bahá'u'lláh, and Farah Pahlavi. Memorable people who died in Tehran include Ismail Haniyeh, Lotf Ali Khan, and Mohammad Mosaddegh. Tehran has been the birth place of many politicians, and soccer players and the death place of many politicians, and writers. Tehran is located in Iran.

Tehran is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is also the capital of Tehran province and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District. With a population of around 9.8 million in the city, and 16.8 million in the metropolitan area, Tehran is the most populous city in Iran and Western Asia, the second-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East after Cairo, and the 24th-most-populous metropolitan area in the world. Greater Tehran includes several municipalities, including Karaj, Eslamshahr, Shahriar, Qods, Malard, Golestan, Pakdasht, Qarchak, Nasimshahr, Parand, Pardis, Andisheh and Fardis. Read more on Wikipedia