Photo location game · Asia
Iran landmarks quiz: guess where 13 photos were taken
Iran in 13 photographs, each pinned to the map with a line of context. Five are dealt per round.
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A photo, then the map. Five rounds from Iran, scored by how far off your pin lands.
Tap the map where you think this is
Where they are
13 on the mapAll 13 places
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The ceremonial capital of the ancient Persian Empire.
Photo: Carole Raddato / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A vast square framed by blue-tiled mosques and bazaars.
Photo: en:User:Arad / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The marble arch built in 1971 as the gateway to Tehran.
Photo: Bernard Gagnon / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Zoroastrian fire temple ringed around a crater lake in the mountains.
Photo: Elaheabed / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The 'Pink Mosque' of Shiraz, famous for stained glass that floods its hall with colour.
Photo: dynamosquito / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The tiled Qajar royal palace of Tehran, where the last shah was crowned.
Photo: Miladpoorali / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The first Persian capital, with the simple stone tomb of Cyrus the Great.
Photo: Diego Delso / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A 15th-century Timurid mosque of turquoise tiles inside the Imam Reza shrine.
Photo: Goudarz.memar / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Iran's highest peak, a snow-capped volcano of Persian legend.
Photo: Safa.daneshvar / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Sufi shrine complex of tiled domes and brick halls in Ardabil.
Photo: MAF70 / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A vast mud-brick citadel on the Silk Road, rebuilt after the 2003 earthquake.
Photo: Arad Mojtahedi / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A 53-metre brick tomb tower from 1006, the tallest of its kind in the world.
Photo: Hadi Karimi / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A salt desert that holds the record for the hottest ground temperature on Earth.
Photo: Lrkrol / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
The long axis is north to south: 1,400 km from Sheikh Safi al-Din Khānegāh and Shrine Ensemble to Bam Citadel, with the rest of Iran's 13 places strung between. Persepolis, Nasir-ol-Molk Mosque and Pasargadae can be covered by one 120 km circle in the south, which makes three rounds easier than they look.
Four easy, eight medium, one hard: Goharshad Mosque on the hard side, Golestan Palace and Pasargadae on the easy. Bam Citadel is a vast mud-brick citadel on the Silk Road, rebuilt after the 2003 earthquake.
Iran is one country. The daily draws from all 167.
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How many places in Iran are in the game?
13 places. Sheikh Safi al-Din Khānegāh and Shrine Ensemble is the top of the map and Bam Citadel the bottom.
Which photo from Iran is the hardest?
Goharshad Mosque, the only one rated hard. At that level the score halves every 451 km past the accuracy radius.
Which one is easiest to score full points on?
Persepolis, which forgives 25 km in every direction before a single point is lost.