1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Iran
Compare this sourced profile of Zahedan, 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 Zahedan—551,980, 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 Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Zahedan is GeoNames ID 1159301. Its recorded administrative path is Sistan and Baluchestan → Iran, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Zahedan 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 2024-07-25; 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, Zahedan ranks 1,008 by recorded population. Inside the 15 selected Iran entries it ranks 13; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 211. Its 551,980 population value is 0.66 times the 841,145 median for the country cohort and 0.61 times the 902,588 regional median. Zahedan sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Iran entries. Zahedan'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.
Zahedan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kerman at 375.13 km with 577,514 recorded people; Kandahar at 520.348 km with 523,300 recorded people; Herat at 554.04 km with 574,300 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 178.91 km. Compared with Kerman, Zahedan's recorded population is 0.96 times as large. Against Zahedan, Kerman follows Kerman → Iran in the source. Its point has higher 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 above Zahedan's. Against Zahedan, Kandahar follows Kandahar District → Kandahar → Afghanistan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Afghanistan cohort rather than Iran, uses Asia/Kabul instead of Asia/Tehran, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Zahedan's. Against Zahedan, Herat follows Herat District → Herat → Afghanistan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Afghanistan cohort rather than Iran, uses Asia/Kabul instead of Asia/Tehran, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Zahedan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,159 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Zahedan'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 1159301, the coordinate pair 29.4963 / 60.8629, country rank 13 of 15, and neighbor GeoNames 128234 at 375.13 km bind Zahedan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Zahedan's reference point is 29.4963° north and 60.8629° 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. Zahedan's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Zahedan's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Zahedan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Zahedan, 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
Zahedan's closest other entries in this atlas are Kerman (375.13 km), Kandahar (520.348 km), Herat (554.04 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-07-25; 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.