1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Iran
Compare this sourced profile of Tabriz, 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 Tabriz—1,424,641, 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 East Azerbaijan Province, Iran.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Tabriz is GeoNames ID 113646. Its recorded administrative path is East Azerbaijan → Iran, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Tabriz 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 2024-07-24; 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, Tabriz ranks 349 by recorded population. Inside the 15 selected Iran entries it ranks 5; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 71. Its 1,424,641 population value is 1.69 times the 841,145 median for the country cohort and 1.58 times the 902,588 regional median. Tabriz sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Iran population cohort. Tabriz's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Tabriz's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Orūmīyeh at 121.835 km with 577,307 recorded people; Van at 258.004 km with 525,016 recorded people; Yerevan at 279.198 km with 1,144,700 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 157.363 km. Compared with Orūmīyeh, Tabriz's recorded population is 2.47 times as large. Against Tabriz, Orūmīyeh follows West Azerbaijan → 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 Tabriz's. Against Tabriz, Van follows Van → Türkiye in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Türkiye cohort rather than Iran, uses Europe/Istanbul instead of Asia/Tehran, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Tabriz's. Against Tabriz, Yerevan follows Yerevan → Armenia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Armenia cohort rather than Iran, uses Asia/Yerevan instead of Asia/Tehran, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Tabriz's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 779 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Tabriz'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 113646, the coordinate pair 38.0800 / 46.2919, country rank 5 of 15, and neighbor GeoNames 121801 at 121.835 km bind Tabriz to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Tabriz's reference point is 38.0800° north and 46.2919° 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. Tabriz's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Tabriz's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Tabriz's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Tabriz, 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
Tabriz's closest other entries in this atlas are Orūmīyeh (121.835 km), Van (258.004 km), Yerevan (279.198 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-07-24; 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.