List of national parks & protected areas of Iran
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- Golestan National Park
- Sisangan National Park
- Kavir National ParkKavir National ParkKavir National Park is a protected ecological zone in northern Iran. It has an area of 4,000 square kilometers . The park is located 120 kilometers south of Tehran and 100 kilometers east of Qom, and it sits on the western end of one of Iran's two major deserts, the Dasht-e Kavir...
- Kharturan National Park, Wildlife Refuge, and Biosphere Reserve
- Naybandan Wildlife Refuge
- Bafq Protected Area
- Dar-e Anjir Wildlife Refuge
- Oshtoran Mountain Protected Area
- Hamoon WetlandsHamun-i-HelmandHāmūn-e Helmand is a shallow, marshy, lake or hāmūn located in eastern Iran, near the Afghanistan border. It is fed by the Helmand River, which starts in the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan...
- Tandooreh National ParkTandooreh National ParkTandooreh is a national park located in the north east of Iran, near the city of Dargaz and the Turkmenistan border....
- Hara Protected Area
- Gano Protected Area
- Lar Protected Area
- Central Alborz Protected Area
- Khojir and Sorkhe Hesar National Park
- Bakhtegan National Park
- Arasbaran Protected Area
- Arjan Protected Area
- Lake Urmia National Park
- Miankaleh Protected Area
- Miandasht Wildlife RefugeMiandasht Wildlife RefugeMiandasht Wildlife Refuge is a reserve in northeastern Iran. It comprises 844 square kilometres of semi desert and shrub land and is home to the endangered Asiatic cheetah.- History and location :...
- Touran Protected Area
- Nazhvan Suburban Natural Park, near IsfahanIsfahan (city)Isfahan , historically also rendered in English as Ispahan, Sepahan or Hispahan, is the capital of Isfahan Province in Iran, located about 340 km south of Tehran. It has a population of 1,583,609, Iran's third largest city after Tehran and Mashhad...
- Bambo National Park, near ShirazShiraz, IranShiraz is the sixth most populous city in Iran and is the capital of Fars Province, the city's 2009 population was 1,455,073. Shiraz is located in the southwest of Iran on the Roodkhaneye Khoshk seasonal river...