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Tehran.

The capital city of Iran, the seat of Tehran County's Central District and the capital of Tehran Province.

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Meaning & usage

name/tɛˈɹæn//ˌtɛˈɹɑːn/
  1. The capital city of Iran, the seat of Tehran County's Central District and the capital of Tehran Province.

  2. A county of Iran, around the city.

  3. Tehran Province, one of the 31 provinces in Iran.

  4. The Tehran Conference (1943).

  5. The government of Iran.

    metonymically
Where this word comes from

A diacriticless transliteration of Iranian Persian تِهران (tehrân), from Classical Persian تَهران (tahrān). See there for more.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.