Tehran

It is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With a population of around 8.4 million in the city and 15 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most populous city in Iran and Western Asia, and has the second-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East. It is positioned 29th on the planet by the number of inhabitants in its metropolitan territory. In the Classical time, some portion of the domain of present-day Tehran was possessed by Rhages, an unmistakable Median city.

Its advanced inheritor stays as a urban territory ingested into the metropolitan region of Greater Tehran. Tehran was first picked as the capital of Iran by Agha Mohammad Khan of the Qajar administration in 1796, so as to stay inside close reach of Iran's regions in the Caucasus, before being isolated from Iran because of the Russo-Iranian Wars, and to maintain a strategic distance from the competing groups of the beforehand governing Iranian lines. The capital has been moved a few times all through the history, and Tehran is the 32nd national capital of Iran. Extensive scale obliteration and revamping started in the 1920s, and Tehran has been a goal for mass movements from all finished Iran since the twentieth century.