1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Iran
Compare this sourced profile of Rasht, Iran before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Rasht—594,590, Asia/Tehran, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: city in Gilan Province, Iran.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Rasht is GeoNames ID 118743. Its recorded administrative path is Gilan Province → Iran, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Rasht occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2019-02-27; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Rasht ranks 943 by recorded population. Inside the 15 selected Iran entries it ranks 10; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 193. Its 594,590 population value is 0.71 times the 841,145 median for the country cohort and 0.66 times the 902,588 regional median. Rasht sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Iran entries. Rasht's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Rasht's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Karaj at 203.623 km with 1,448,075 recorded people; Tehran at 240.374 km with 7,153,309 recorded people; Hamadan at 291.852 km with 528,256 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 88.229 km. Compared with Karaj, Rasht's recorded population is 0.41 times as large. Against Rasht, Karaj follows Alborz Province → Iran in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Iran cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tehran identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Rasht's. Against Rasht, Tehran follows Tehran → Iran in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Iran cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tehran identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Rasht's. Against Rasht, Hamadan follows Hamadan Province → Iran in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Iran cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tehran identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Rasht's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,010 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Rasht's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 118743, the coordinate pair 37.2761 / 49.5886, country rank 10 of 15, and neighbor GeoNames 128747 at 203.623 km bind Rasht to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Rasht's reference point is 37.2761° north and 49.5886° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Tehran is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Rasht's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Rasht's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Rasht's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Rasht, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Rasht's closest other entries in this atlas are Karaj (203.623 km), Tehran (240.374 km), Hamadan (291.852 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2019-02-27; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.