Supported cities
20
City profiles indexed for Iran.
Western Asia
Iran Country Intelligence Hub
Iran's profile spans high-altitude plateaus, arid basins, and dense historic cities, useful for users comparing West-Asian city contexts, climate exposure, and relocation factors. Iran is indexed at the country level in Western Asia, with 20 city profiles linked below.
- Last updated
- 2026-05-16
- Data year
- 2025
- Country code
- IR
Country profile
Iran
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Iran country overview
Snapshot of structured Iran city intelligence and which verified utility layers are available on this hub.
Iran country overview
Emergency profile
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Healthcare profile
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Verified healthcare data is not available; fallback context is shown.
Transport profile
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Verified transport data is not available; fallback context is shown.
Related comparisons
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Curated city-vs-city comparison pages that reference this country.
Related collections
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Best Cities collections that include at least one city from this country.
Data year
2025
Reference year for the country intelligence dataset.
Last updated
2026-05-16
Most recent platform-side review of the country hub.
Regional context
West Asia plateau
Plateau and basin geography with pronounced continental and arid climate zones.
Climate exposure
Heat and water
Water-resource stress and summer heat are central adaptation priorities.
Data confidence
Moderate
International datasets provide a workable basis for neutral city comparison.
Iran data table
Country pages group cities into crawlable clusters and give national context without replacing city-level comparisons.
| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Region | Western Asia | Used for geographic clustering and regional comparisons. |
| Indexed cities | 20 | Tehran, Isfahan, Tabriz, Mashhad, Shiraz, Qom, Karaj, Ahvaz, Kermanshah, Yazd, Rasht, Urmia, Hamadan, Ardabil, Kerman, Nishapur, Arak, Zahedan, Qazvin, Sari |
| Regional context | West Asia plateau | Plateau and basin geography with pronounced continental and arid climate zones. |
| Climate exposure | Heat and water | Water-resource stress and summer heat are central adaptation priorities. |
| Data confidence | Moderate | International datasets provide a workable basis for neutral city comparison. |
Indexed cities in Iran
Each linked city page includes its own metadata, data table, source block, module links, and any verified utility layers.
Indexed cities in Iran
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Tehran
Iran / Western Asia
Use the Tehran profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Iran and across Western Asia, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall59/100
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Isfahan
Iran / Western Asia
Use the Isfahan profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Iran and across Western Asia, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall60/100
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Tabriz
Iran / Western Asia
Use the Tabriz profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Iran and across Western Asia, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall56/100
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Mashhad
Iran / Western Asia
Use the Mashhad profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Iran and across Western Asia, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall55/100
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Shiraz
Iran / Western Asia
Use the Shiraz profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Iran and across Western Asia, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall61/100
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Qom
Iran / Western Asia
Use the Qom profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Iran and across Western Asia, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall57/100
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Karaj
Iran / Western Asia
Use the Karaj profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Iran and across Western Asia, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall59/100
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Ahvaz
Iran / Western Asia
Use the Ahvaz profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Iran and across Western Asia, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall58/100
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Kermanshah
Iran / Western Asia
Use the Kermanshah profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Iran and across Western Asia, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall60/100
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Yazd
Iran / Western Asia
Use the Yazd profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Iran and across Western Asia, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall61/100
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Rasht
Iran / Western Asia
Use the Rasht profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Iran and across Western Asia, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall61/100
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Urmia
Iran / Western Asia
Use the Urmia profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Iran and across Western Asia, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall56/100
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Hamadan
Iran / Western Asia
Use the Hamadan profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Iran and across Western Asia, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall57/100
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Ardabil
Iran / Western Asia
Use the Ardabil profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Iran and across Western Asia, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall62/100
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Kerman
Iran / Western Asia
Use the Kerman profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Iran and across Western Asia, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall58/100
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Nishapur
Iran / Western Asia
Use the Nishapur profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Iran and across Western Asia, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall61/100
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Arak
Iran / Western Asia
Use the Arak profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Iran and across Western Asia, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall56/100
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Zahedan
Iran / Western Asia
Use the Zahedan profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Iran and across Western Asia, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall57/100
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Qazvin
Iran / Western Asia
Use the Qazvin profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Iran and across Western Asia, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall60/100
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Sari
Iran / Western Asia
Use the Sari profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Iran and across Western Asia, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall62/100
Country indicators
Source-attributed country-level indicators for Iran will appear here once the platform integrates the relevant World Bank batch. The fallback below is intentional — the platform does not show placeholder numbers.
Country indicators for Iran
Verified data unavailableLast updated 2026-05-16 · data year 2025
How to read these country indicators
Reading guideCountry-level, not city-level
Indicators describe national context. Pair them with city profiles, comparisons, and verified utility layers (emergency, healthcare, transport) for local detail.
Source-attributed where available
Values come from the World Bank Development Indicators. Where no verified record exists, the platform shows a transparent fallback rather than a guessed number.
Different indicators, different years
Each record carries its own data year because publishers refresh indicators on their own cadence. The card and table both display the year alongside the value.
Context, not a ranking
Treat indicators as orientation, not as a leaderboard. The platform never claims any country is best, safest, cleanest, richest, healthiest, or most connected.
Read alongside city intelligence
Country indicators are most useful when combined with the city profiles in the country, the public-safety, healthcare, and transport sections, and the methodology and data-sources pages.
For full construction details, read the methodology page and the data sources registry.
Verified country indicator values are not yet published for Iran
The platform does not guess values. Source-attributed records for Iran will appear here once they are integrated from accepted publishers. In the meantime, review the city profiles in Iran, the public-safety, healthcare, and transport sections above, and the methodology and data-sources pages linked below.
- · Cities in this country — listed above.
- · Verified public-service layers where available.
- · Methodology and data-sources registry — linked below.
- · No placeholder numbers are shown.
| Indicator | Value | Unit | Data year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country indicators | Verified country indicator values are not yet published for this location. | |||
Data provenance
Source attributionGlobal City Intelligence — country indicators dataset
Verified data unavailable- Publisher
- World Bank — World Development Indicators
- Last verified
- 2026-05-16
Verified country indicators for this country are not yet integrated. Verified batches currently cover 25 supported countries across 9 World Bank Development Indicators (population, internet usage, urban-population share, GDP per capita, life expectancy, current health expenditure per capita, unemployment rate, CO₂ emissions per capita, fixed broadband subscriptions); additional batches will follow.
Methodology and context
Country indicator values appear in this section only after they are sourced from accepted publishers and validated at build time. Malformed records cannot ship to production.
- Scoring methodology — how indicators across the platform are constructed.
- Data sources registry — the official sources cited by verified datasets.
Emergency and public safety in Iran
Verified emergency contacts for Iran, drawn from official emergency services and government publishers. Use these as a starting point and confirm current details with local authorities before traveling or relocating.
Methodology and the wider source registry are documented on the scoring methodology and data sources pages.
Healthcare and hospitals in Iran
Verified national healthcare information for Iran, drawn from official government and public health publishers. This is informational only and does not provide medical advice.
Related sections: emergency and public safety, scoring methodology, and data sources.
Transport and mobility in Iran
Verified national transport context for Iran, attributed to official transport ministries, national operators, and aviation authorities. This is informational only; routes, fares, and schedules change frequently — check the linked authorities for current details.
Related sections: emergency and public safety, healthcare and hospitals, cities directory, countries directory, scoring methodology, data sources.
Related city comparisons for Iran
Curated city-vs-city comparisons that include at least one city from Iran. Each link opens a comparison page with structured indicators across cost, safety, healthcare, transport, and country context.
Related city comparisons for Iran
No curated city comparisons reference Iran yet. Browse the full city comparison directory for cross-country comparisons.
Best Cities collections featuring Iran
Curated city collections that include at least one Iran city. Each collection is a comparison-oriented shortlist, not an official ranking.
Best Cities collections featuring Iran
No curated city collections currently reference Iran cities. Browse the Best Cities collections index for related shortlists.
Rankings featuring Iran cities
Explore rankings where supported Iran city profiles appear. Use rankings as directional city intelligence, not an official government ranking.
Rankings featuring Iran cities
Ranking
Overall City Intelligence Ranking
A balanced ranking of cities across affordability, air quality, clean-energy readiness, and resilience.
20 cities from Iran appears in this ranking
Ranking
Best Cities for Quality of Life
Cities that combine strong services, mobility, safety, clean air, and resilience into a healthy day-to-day profile.
20 cities from Iran appears in this ranking
Ranking
Best Cities for Remote Workers
Cities that combine fast connectivity, safety, healthy day-to-day life, and a manageable cost-of-living balance for remote and hybrid workers.
20 cities from Iran appears in this ranking
Ranking
Cleanest Air Cities
A health-oriented comparison of city air-quality scores using WHO-centered pollutant interpretation.
20 cities from Iran appears in this ranking
Ranking
Most Affordable Global Cities
Cities ranked by cost-of-living score, weighing housing pressure, essential spending, and household offsets across global metros.
20 cities from Iran appears in this ranking
Ranking
Best Connected Cities
Cities ranked by internet speed, mobile coverage, and digital-readiness depth for residents, businesses, and remote workers.
20 cities from Iran appears in this ranking
Ranking
Energy Ready City Ranking
A ranking of city energy-transition readiness, grid resilience, clean-resource potential, and adaptation capacity.
20 cities from Iran appears in this ranking
Ranking
Affordability Balance Ranking
A practical affordability ranking that weighs housing pressure against transport access, services, and opportunity density.
20 cities from Iran appears in this ranking
See the full rankings directory for every available structured ranking.
Interpretation and methodology note
Across 20 indexed cities, Ardabil leads at 62/100 and Mashhad sits at 55/100. Use the country page as a parent context layer; module-level detail lives on each city profile. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-16. Drawn from 3 institutional references.
Structured indicators on this hub are directional and intended for orientation. Verified utility layers — emergency, healthcare, transport — are attributed to official publishers where available and use transparent fallback states where verified country-level data is not yet integrated.
- Cities directory — browse every indexed city profile.
- All countries — navigate to other country hubs.
- City comparisons — curated city-vs-city pages with structured indicators.
- Best Cities collections — comparison-oriented shortlists by intent.
- All rankings — structured rankings across city intelligence categories.
- Read the scoring methodology for the scoring model used across modules.
- Browse all data sources for the source registry behind verified layers.
- Travel budget calculator — plan a trip budget for cities in Iran. Use your own trip inputs and then review city, public safety, healthcare, and transport context. Planning estimator only, not an official travel cost estimate.
Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation. Verified datasets are being integrated; official sources should be used for critical decisions.
Sources
3 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation; verified datasets are being integrated and official sources should be used for critical decisions.
- UN-Habitat: World Cities Report 2024
Used as a policy and methodology reference for urban exposure and resilience signals.
- NASA: NASA POWER
Used as an energy-resource and weather-normalization reference.
- IPCC: AR6 WGII Chapter 6: Cities, settlements and key infrastructure
Used to explain urban climate vulnerability and adaptation scoring logic.