Greater Tehran is the urban agglomeration around Tehran that covers the central part of the Tehran Province and eastern part of the Alborz Province, that covers the contiguous cities of Tehran, Ray, Shemirānāt, and other areas.

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Greater Tehran تهران بزرگ
کلانشهر تهران · Tehran-Karaj-Eslamshahr metropolitan area
Greater Tehran
Coordinates: 35°41′46″N 51°25′23″E
Country	Iran
Province	Tehran
Core city	Tehran
Satellite cities	– Karaj – Eslamshahr – Damavand
Area [1]
• Urban	730 km2 (280 sq mi)
• Metro	9,500 km2 (3,700 sq mi)
Elevation	1,200 to 1,980 m (3,900 to 6,470 ft)
Population  (2016)[2]
• Density	1,600/km2 (4,000/sq mi)
• Urban	8,846,782
• Metro	15,000,000
• Population Rank in Iran	1st
Time zone	UTC+03:30 (IRST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+04:30 (IRDT)
Area code(s)	021
Website	Tehran.ir

As of 2012, Greater Tehran had a population of close to 14 million residents.[3] The 2016 census had the population at 13.3 million in Tehran Province (only 200 thousands of them outside Tehran and the suburban counties) and 2.2 million in Karaj and Fardis combined. So it can be estimated that the population of the urban agglomeration was about 15 million people in 2016, and it is sinking 25 cm per year because of the accelerated influx and the overuse of natural resources.[4]

Since the 1960s, much of Greater Tehran's growth has been caused by an influx of urban poor into informal settlements on the fringe.[5]

Greater Tehran should not be confused with the following:

• Tehran Province (area 18,814 km², population 13.27 m – 2016). Part of the province is too far from Tehran and has too low a population density to be classified as the part of agglomeration
• Tehran County (area 1,300 km², population 8.85 million (2016) with 97.5% of the population living in Tehran City itself)
• Tehran City includes 22 districts, two of them fully and one partially are located outside of Tehran County. The city's area is about 730 km². The extension of the city to other counties began in 1973 to include the villages surrounding the city of Tajrish (Evin, Darakeh, Niyavaran, Rostan Abad, Gholhak, Zargandeh, Elahiyeh, Davoudiyeh, and Zarrabkhaneh) and the cities of Vanak and Rey to which “Kooye Siman” had been annexed during the years 1956 to 1966.

Geographys

Park-e
Laleh

Amir
Abad

Youssef
Abad

Haft-e
Tir

Behjat
Abad

Arjantin

Towhid

Tarasht

Arya-
-shahr

Shahrak-e
Jandarmeri

Gisha

Shahrak-e
Gharb

Punak-e
Bakhtari

Farahzad

Sa'adat
Abad

Pich-e
Shemiran

Emam
Hosseyn

Gorgan

Abbas
Abad

Mo'allem

Vanak

Davudieh

Qolhak

Darrous

Ekhtiarieh

Za'faranieh

Elahieh

Tajrish

Chizar

Jamaran

Farmanieh

Darabad

Nobonyad

Sabalan

Samangan

Narmak

Zargandeh

Shams
Abad

Shemiran
No

Resalat

Tehran
Pars

Khak
Sefid

Hakimieh

Lavizan

Pasdaran

Ozgol

Ekbatan

Bulvar-e
Ferdows

Kuy-e
Sazman-e
Barnameh

Kan

Shahran

Punak

Jannat
Abad

Lashkar

Sheykh
-Hadi

Monirieh

Dokhaniat

Khani
Abad

Bazar

Park-e
Shahr

Ferdowsi

Khorasan

Baharestan

Dulab

Chaharsad
Dastgah

Sad
Dastgah

Esfahanak

Dushan
Tappeh

Niru
Havayi

Tehran
No

Jey

Sar-Asyab

Salsabil

Haft
Chenar

Beryanak

Emamzadeh
Hassan

Qal'eh
Morghi

Khazaneh
Fallah

Ne'mat
Abad

Abdol
Abad

Hava
Niruz

Shad
Abad

Tolid
Daru

Yaft
Abad

Shahrak-e
Vali-Asr

Chahar
Bari

Bagh-e
Azari

Nazi
Abad

Khazaneh
Bokharaee

Yakhchi
Abad

Ali
Abad

Sizdah-e
Aban

Javanmard-e
Qassab

Dowlat
Abad

Ebn-e
Babaveyh

Hazrat-e
Abdol-Azim

Bissim

Kianshahr

Khavaran

Moshirieh

Afsariyeh

Mas'udieh

Stadium-e
Azadi

Chitgar

Peykan-
-Shahr

Bagh-e
Haj-Seyf

Shahrak-e
Cheshmeh

Shahrak-e
Rah-Ahan

Tehransar

Iran
Khodro

Vardavard

There is no exact definition of Tehran agglomeration borders and composition. Beside Tehran County, also Shemiranat County, Ray County, Eslamshahr County, Pakdasht County, Robat-Karim County, Varamin County, Shahriar County, Qods County, Malard County, Pishva County, and Baharestan County in Tehran Province and also Karaj County and probably even Nazarabad County and Savojbolagh County in Alborz Province can be regarded as parts of the agglomeration.

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