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Iran is a mountainous country of high relief, covering almost 1.65 million km2, which separates the Caspian Sea from the Persian Gulf. The deeply eroded Zagros Mountains run through the country parallel with the Persian Gulf, with peaks rising to over 4,000 m, while the Elburz Mountains form a narrow range in the north rising to over 5,600 m above the Caspian from which they are separated by a narrow, fertile and partly forested coastal belt. To the east, lies an extensive arid plateau, with salt flats, at an altitude of about 900 m, which is in turn flanked farther to the east by ranges of hills along the frontier with Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Campbell, C.J. (2013). Iran. In: Campbell's Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3576-1_60
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