Lavasan is a city in and the capital of Lavasanat District

Lavasanat District

Lavasanat District is a district in Shemiranat County, Tehran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 22,289, in 6,615 families. The District has one city: Lavasan....

, in Shemiranat County

Shemiranat County

Shemiranat County is a county in Tehran Province in Iran. The capital of the county is Shemiran, which is part of the city of Tehran. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 37,778, in 11,178 families...

, Tehran Province

Tehran Province

Tehran Province is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. It covers on area of 18,909 square kilometers and is located to the north of the central plateau of Iran....

, Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

. At the 2006 census, its population was 15,448, in 4,645 families.

It is home to many upper-class and wealthy families. The city is composed of Lavasan-e-Bozorg (which means "Great Lavasan") and Lavasan-e-Kochak (which means "Little Lavasan"). The Jajrood River

Jajrood River

Jajrood River is a river of northern Iran. It flows through the Alborz mountain range....

 flows through Lavasan.

Lavasan has an area of 13.7 square kilometres.

Notable residents

• All Lavasanipour Family
• Seyed Hamed Miri Lavasani
• All Miri Lavasani Family
• Ali Parvin
  Ali Parvin
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• Yasser Hashemi Rafsanjani
  Yasser Hashemi Rafsanjani
  Yasser Hashemi Rafsanjani is the youngest son of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former president of Iran....
  
  
• Naser Houshmand Vaziri
  Naser Houshmand Vaziri
  Nāser Housh'mand Vaziri is an Iranian sculptor. He is a graduate of the Fine Arts Faculty of University of Tehran. Although stone is his favourite material, he works with such other substances as mud, wood, sand, glass, fibreglass, ceramic, metal and cement. He works both in classical and modern...