7 Climes of Iran

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THE LAND
The country known as Iran, i.e. Aryan, meaning Land of the Aryans, has long been known to the
west as Persia, a name derived from Pars or Fars, one of the country's southern provinces.
It is a land of sharp contrasts: high mountains, deep valleys, large plains, and extensive deserts.
Iran is a vast country and lies in the Middle East, forming the western part of Asia and the eastern
most part of the Mediterranean world. It covers a large portion of the extensive plateau which has an
average height of some 1000 metres and lies between Iraq (Mesopotamia of old) to the west and
China to the east, the steppes of Russia to the north and the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman to the
south. Put in simpler terms, Iran forms the great land bridge connecting the bulk of Asia with Europe.
It is the fourth largest country in Asia and measures some 1,648,000 square kilometres (about 630,000
square miles). Its size adds up to that of the Republic of south Africa plus about... Tovább

Fülszöveg

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THE LAND
The country known as Iran, i.e. Aryan, meaning Land of the Aryans, has long been known to the
west as Persia, a name derived from Pars or Fars, one of the country's southern provinces.
It is a land of sharp contrasts: high mountains, deep valleys, large plains, and extensive deserts.
Iran is a vast country and lies in the Middle East, forming the western part of Asia and the eastern
most part of the Mediterranean world. It covers a large portion of the extensive plateau which has an
average height of some 1000 metres and lies between Iraq (Mesopotamia of old) to the west and
China to the east, the steppes of Russia to the north and the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman to the
south. Put in simpler terms, Iran forms the great land bridge connecting the bulk of Asia with Europe.
It is the fourth largest country in Asia and measures some 1,648,000 square kilometres (about 630,000
square miles). Its size adds up to that of the Republic of south Africa plus about 250,000 square
kilometres. Its area is also roughly equal to the combined areas of France, Britain, Germany, Italy,
Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and England.
The Iranian plateau, which covers the best part of Iran, may be described as a triangle set between two
depressions, the Caspian Sea in the north and the Persian Gulf in the south. This triangle is bounded
by mountains rising round a central depression, an extensive desert region formed by the bed of a
dried-up ocean. The western mountains, the Zagros range, runs from Vissza