City: Iran
8 Cemeteries in Iran That You Shouldn't Miss
Iran (Persian: ایران Irān [ʔiːˈɾɒːn] ( listen)), also known as Persia (/ˈpɜːrʒə/), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (Persian: جمهوری اسلامی ایران Jomhuri-ye Eslāmi-ye Irān ( listen)), is a sovereign state in Western Asia. With over 81 million inhabitants, Iran is the world's 18th-most-populous country. Comprising a land area of 1,648,195 km (636,372 sq mi), it is the second-largest country in the Middle East and the 17th-largest in the world. Iran is bordered to the northwest by Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan, to the north by the Caspian Sea, to the northeast by Turkmenistan, to the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, and to the west by Turkey and Iraq. The country's central location in Eurasia and Western Asia, and its proximity to the Strait of Hormuz, give it geostrategic importance. Tehran is the country's capital and largest city, as well as its leading economic and cultural center.
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1. Khalid Nabi Cemetery
2. Sibouye Tomb
3. Doulab Catholic Cemetery
4. Siraf Ancient Graveyard
5. Armenian Cemetery
6. Poets Tomb (Maqbaratol Shoara)
7. Mausoleum of Shah Shoja - The Greatest King of the Muzaffarid Dynasty
8. Khavaran Cemetery
Khavaran is a vacant lot in southeast of Tehran, next to Golestan-e Javid and the Armenian Cemetery. From early 1980s, the authorities buried executed Baha’is and political activists associated with leftist organizations there, calling it “La’nat abad”(damned land). Families of some of the victims of the 1988 prison killings discovered that their loved ones had been buried in a mass grave here.
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